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HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy is the first ever non-binary comics anthology, featuring 22 young adult stories made entirely by cartoonists who identify as a non-binary gender, available here in PDF and CBZ formats.
Across time and cultures, humanity has spun tales about the forest: tales of caution, adventure, rites of passage, and discovery. It remains a symbol for facing the unknownandemerging transformed. This anthology is for everyone who has walked through the undergrowth, in the silence of nature, and longed for an adventure of their own to unfold.
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I’m a visual learner/thinker, so deciding on story order for #HeartwoodAnthology was a nightmare… until I thought to print out baby-sized Heartwood pages and shuffle them around!!!
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You can still back HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy throughCrowd Ox until September 14th!
We closed out as one of the top 15 most funded Kickstarter anthologies, but 3 of our 14 stretch goals remain LOCKED.Pledge on Crowd Ox now to get the first all non-binary comics anthology!
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We love seeing the look on our authors’ faces when they see their books in physical form for the first time! Here is @etafrum of @booksandbeans holding her early galley copy of #AWomanIsNoMan. This story of gender, culture, family, and the power of voice is one to put on the top of your must-read list. Look for it March 2019!
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HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy is the first ever non-binary comics anthology, featuring 22 young adult stories made entirely by cartoonists who identify as a non-binary gender, available here in PDF and CBZ formats.
Across time and cultures, humanity has spun tales about the forest: tales of caution, adventure, rites of passage, and discovery. It remains a symbol for facing the unknownandemerging transformed. This anthology is for everyone who has walked through the undergrowth, in the silence of nature, and longed for an adventure of their own to unfold.
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Teacher friends! Have you read this yet?
The writing is superb and the message is better. Add it to your classroom library!
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It might be spring break, but I keep thinking back to a book speed dating activity my AP classes did the day before break started. AP Language and Composition life is very structured and formal with analysis and rhetoric, so I used this speed dating time as a way to reintroduce my students to choice in their reading selections. It was loud and slightly chaotic, but it was worth it to see many of them find a book they truly WANTED to read. Time well spent.
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what contemporaries have you loved this year? It’s time for some much needed contemporary appreciation because let’s face it; bookstagram loves on fantasy way more I’ve read 67 contemporaries this year and here are a few I’m obsessed with! ❤️ THE HENNA WARS — incredible sister love. Bangladeshi and Muslim rep. Sapphic!! I loved this so much. FELIX EVER AFTER — the best!!! Raw and unapologetic artists and trans rep and best chaos love triangle. BE DAZZLED — it’s out in 2021! Anxious cosplay queer crafters and it’s amazing. LOVELESS — the aro/ace book my heart needed. And of course HEARTSTOPPER is a wholesome soft and angsty gift. THIS IS MY BRAIN IN LOVE — messy and realistic anxiety/depression discussions, and Taiwanese and Nigerian immigrant rep. And so much FOOD OMG. ONLY MOSTLY DEVASTATED — queer Grease retelling and it made me bust out laughing but also cry. PLEASE DON’T HUG ME — autism appreciation this book gets it. Accurate, emotional, and powerful. ❤️ BOYFRIEND MATERIAL — so funny; the flirty one falls for the uptight one trope . THE FOXHOLE COURT — a reread but I love these damaged disaster queer jocks with their stickball and their mafia. Have you read any of these? #contemporaryYA #bookstagram #bookwormlife #bookstagram #epicreads #weneeddiversebooks #ireadya #yalit #yabooks #bookphotography #bookish #bookrainbow https://www.instagram.com/p/CI27KodHEcv/?igshid=1dy4ppxqbpbam
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here are some books by trans authors I’ve loved and some coming in 2021 that I cannot WAIT for (covers edited in! I don’t have copies!!)
Also I’ve made some graphics of more trans authors’ books coming in 2021. The way they are so beautiful and I want to read them all feel free to share!! It’s trans week and these authors deserve love and hype for their stories. Not just now, but always.
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by REERA YOO
When Korean American novelistPatricia Park first read Charlotte Brontë’s Victorian novelJane Eyre at the age of 12, she was struck by how the titular heroine was scorned by society and her relatives solely because of her orphan status. “Orphan” was a word Park often heard her mother throw around whenever she misbehaved as a child.
“My mother used to say to me in her limited English, ‘You act like an orphan!’ This never made sense to me,” Park, 34, tells KoreAmvia email. “How do you actlike an orphan? You either are one or you aren’t.”
After reading Brontë’s 19th-century tale, Park realized that her mother’s generation of Koreans—those who grew up during the Korean War—perceived orphans as outcasts with questionable lineage, morals and manners. To “act like an orphan,” Park realized, meant you behaved in a shameful way that proved to others you didn’t receive a “good family education.”
“My mind drew the link between the Victorian construct of the orphan and the Korean post-war one, and ReJanewas born,” Park says.
Released in hardcover in May, Park’s debut novel is a modern retelling of Brontë’s classic tale, only set in New York’s sprawling outer boroughs and South Korea in the early aughts. Jane Re is a half-Korean, half-Caucasian recent college graduate who, since childhood, has lived with her strict uncle and his family in Flushing, a neighborhood Jane describes as “all Korean, all the time.”
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Last year, the publishing industry’s commercial extravaganza known as “Book Con” invited 30 white male authors and one grumpy cat to participate. Unfortunately, Grumpy Cat was the only non-white female included at the entire convention. For many, that was a problem.
There were no panels featuring women or writers of color—“None. Nada. Zilch,” writer Aisha Saeed tweeted in dismay. With that, Saeed debuted a hashtag created by Korean American author Ellen Oh:#WeNeedDiverseBooks. With remarkable speed, “We Need Diverse Books” became a rallying cry for book lovers everywhere seeking to change the default male whiteness (and grumpy cat-ness) of the book publishing industry.
Change the industry it has, by setting its sights on children’s literature, a genre markedly lacking in diversity despite the known impact that reading has on young minds. Over the course of a year, We Need Diverse Books has morphed from a grassroots movement into an official nonprofit led by Oh, and two other co-founders, authors Malinda LoandCindy Pon. (Disclosure: the author of this article is also a member of the organization.)
The organization boasts the support of such luminaries as Jacqueline Woodson—winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Brown Girl Dreaming—and 2002 Newbery Medal winner Linda Sue Park, who sit on the nonprofit’s advisory committee. With a trademark secured, We Need Diverse Books plans an inaugural book convention under its own auspices to be held in Silver Spring, Md., in summer 2016.
An overwhelming response to the call for literary diversity prompted the website,Bibliodaze, to name Lo, Pon and Oh, together, among the 10 most influential people in publishing in 2014, rounding out a list featuring powerhouse young adult authors such as John Green (The Fault in Our Stars) and Veronica Roth (Divergent).
Crediting the hashtag, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, for igniting crucial conversations in publishing, Bibliodazecommented: “Many have been discussing the lack of diversity in literature for a long time, but what Oh did cannot be looked over because it was thanks to her efforts that the conversation became as widely discussed as it did. You couldn’t ignore it and that was the point. If that hashtag made even one person seek out a book they wouldn’t have before, it did its job.”
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Congratulations to Vivian Pham on the release of The Coconut Children! A moving #ownvoices debut by a young Vietnamese-Australian author
co-host Wendy
#weneeddiversebooks #diversity #ownvoices #asianlit
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Co-host Wendy recently spotted these MG/YA #Asianlit books at Kinokuniya in Shinjuku, Tokyo!✨
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#AThousandBeginningsandEndings, edited by @elloecho @elsiechapman
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#LalanioftheDistantSea by @erinentrada
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#SouloftheSword by @juliekagawaauthor
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#TheBeastPlayer by #NahokoUehashi
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#KiraKira by #CynthiaKadohata
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#PieintheSky by @rrremylai
#ownvoices #diversity #weneeddiversebooks
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Today I have a new short story available for you to read! It’s called “Meet Cute” and it’s in the latest @weneeddiversebooks anthology, Fresh Ink, edited by @lamargiles.
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This is a rarity for me — a fun and romantic story with a happy ending! “Meet Cute” is basically my short story version of a romantic comedy, set at a Comic Con-style convention. The two characters who meet cutely are Nic, who is cosplaying as a gender-flipped Sulu from Star Trek, and Tamia, who is cosplaying as a race-bent Dana Scully from The X-Files.
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I’m so happy to give you all a happy little story, and even happier that it’s in Fresh Ink, which is a great new anthology from the wonderful organization We Need Diverse Books. In addition to my tale, you’ll find stories from YA stars including Jason Reynolds, Gene Luen Yang, and Sara Farizan, as well as from talented newcomer and out trans athlete Schuyler Bailar. It’s a really great collection and I hope you’ll check it out!
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Buy links and more info at malindalo.com/blog
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So excited that the cover for FRESH INK is out now! This is a #weneeddiversebooks YA anthology featuring short fiction by many authors including me! My story is a romantic comedy about two girls who meet at a Comic Con and it’s titled “Meet Cute.” That’s right this is a happy f/f story from me! ❤️ FRESH INK will be published in August 2018! #authorsofinstagram #freshink #queerya #shortstories
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Recently, in the popular State of Black Science Fiction Facebook group, which has well over 12,000 members, a new member commented “Along with a bunch of other readers, I’m starving for paranormal and sf books with more diverse characters. Skin color, background, ages, classes.” I told her “Then, you’re in the right place, sister. Plenty of that here. Welcome home!” Since the #WeNeedDiverseBooks…
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I can’t believe Christmas season crept up on me yet again! My favorite thing to gift anyone for the holidays is books. So, I got my oldest daughter, Bean, a ton of books for cheap this year from her school’s book fair. (Like, some were $.25. I was so geeked!) She also will rack up from her grandparents. As I attempt to solve the first-world problem of where to house the incoming literary loot, I…
Hey pals! This week the first book I ever helped illustrate came out in the U.K., & on 18th March we’re having an online book launch for it! LINK IN BIO it’d be great to see you there!
‘Just Like Me’ is written by Louise Gooding @onceuponalouise & illustrated by me, @melissaiwai1 @angelchangart @caterinadellicarri & published by @studiobooks (with the frankly amazing @thegingerbread_lady )& it’s about a series of neurodivergent & disabled people who’ve done amazing things! Here’s my illio of #FridaKahlo made for the book ILYSM thanks for being here for me lately, friends. I appreciate your company & your energy so so much ☔️
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