Notes from the Slushpile

Notes from the Slushpile is a team blog maintained by eight friends who also happen to be children's authors at different stages of the publishing journey.

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Showing posts with label Diversity. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Diversity. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 January 2021

Mixing it Up - Challenging My Unconscious Biases to Add Diversity to My Writing

By Nick Cross Photo by Mike Petrucci on Unsplash I’ve spent the last year adapting a YA novel (that I originally wrote in 2012) int...

Saturday, 9 February 2019

Check Your Privilege Before Changing Lanes - A White Author Reflects on Diversity

By Nick Cross Photo by Gerry Machen Diversity. Inclusion. #OwnVoices. Terms like these seem ubiquitous in publishing at the momen...

Sunday, 5 March 2017

The Danger of Reading

By Candy Gourlay Last week, I wrote If Books Are Mirrors, Where are Our Reflections? about a teacher conference that explored the imp...

Friday, 17 February 2017

Writing for Children - Bryan Collier on Inspiration, Passion and the need for Diverse Books.

By Kathryn Evans I've just returned from the SCBWI New York conference. I know - get me! Gadding about the planet. It's huge too ...

Monday, 19 October 2015

The Many Faces of Diversity

By Candy Gourlay So let's be honest. We authors are terrified of diversity in children's books. Are we doing it right? Are we of...

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