For Writers

• SCBWI
• 12 x 12 Picture Book Challenge
• Storyteller Academy
• The Writing Barn
• Lyrical Language Lab
• Children’s Book Academy
• Storystorm (Idea Generation – January)
• Kidlit411
• Highlights Foundation
• Writing for Children (Laura Purdie Salas)
• #PBChat (Twitter, run by Justin Colon)
• Ask the Agent (Jennifer Laughran on Tumbler)
• Manuscript Wish List (#MSWL on Twitter)
• Publisher’s Marketplace
• We Need Diverse Books

Nonfiction Resources

• Nonfiction Fest
• Nonfiction Ninjas
• Melissa Stewart’s Blog Celebrate Science

For Teachers or Parents

• Poetry Foundation – Resources for students and teachers with a search engine and glossary of poetic terms. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/children
• Melissa Stewart’s Blog Celebrate Science
• Jennifer Swanson Science Rocks!, STEM Tuesday, and Solve It for Kids (Podcast)
• Kate Messner’s Teachers Write Summer Camp (Free Online)
• A Mighty Girl
• We Need Diverse Books – An organization working to bring diverse books and authors into economically disadvantaged classrooms, and promoting changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.

Podcasts

• Solve It for Kids
• The Children’s Book Podcast hosted by Matthew Winner

Contests/Twitter Pitches

• PBPITCH
• LATINXPITCH
• SunWriteFun Nonfiction/Informational Fiction Contest
• Fifty Precious Words
• SCBWI Work-in-Progress Award
• SCBWI Karen and Philip Cushman Late Bloomer Award
• Ann Whitford Paul–Writer’s Digest Manuscript Award
• Rate Your Story Contest
• Fall Writing Frenzy / Spring Fling Contest