Call for Papers for the 70th Annual MPSA Political Science Conference, April 12 – 15, 2012, in Downtown Chicago Paper Proposal Deadline: 10/14; Poster Proposal Deadline 12/2. Submit a Proposal Research: A conference with about 1000 panels in all subfields, including Politics, Literature…
Author: J.L. Powers
J.L. Powers is the author of the y.a. novels This Thing Called the Future and The Confessional, and editor the forthcoming anthology That Mad Game: Growing Up in a Warzone.
Global Fund for Children: Publishing Books, Supporting Children Globally
The Global Fund for Children is a non-profit organization that works to improve the dignity of children, through grant-making and partnering with local, community-based organizations that serve children in 75 countries around the world, and also by publishing books…
Youme Landowne: Creating a Safe Place to Talk About Hard Things
Youme Landowne is the author and illustrator of the picture book Selavi (That is Life): A Haitian Story of Hope (Cinco Puntos Press), which tells the true story of how street children came together in Haiti to create their own…
Racism, bullying, and Africa: Exploring Zimbabwe in Out of the Shadows by Jason Wallace
On the 17thof April, 1980, at Zimbabwe’s independence celebration, Bob Marley sang his famous song for Africa’s independence: “Every man got a right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality.” Part of…
Call for Manuscripts
The Journal of Children’s Literature has a “call for manuscripts” on “Exploring issues of social justice through children’s literature” for the Fall 2012 issue. Manuscripts are due Feb. 1 2012. Manuscripts are to be submitted to: Miriam Martinez, Jonda C. McNair…
Writing Breaks the Silence
In this guest post by Susanne Gervay, an Australian children’s writer, Susanne shares information about why she’s written her books. My parents were post war Hungarian refugees who found home in the ‘new world.’ There were good times but also…
The Vietnam War: Exposed in Sherry Shahan’s new young adult novel, Purple Daze
One of my all-time favorite young adult novels is Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz. Set in 1969, it tells the story of several young people growing up in a barrio in New Mexico, the Vietnam war…
The Pirate Tree is launched
Beginning on Tuesday, April 5, five children’s and young adult writers–Ann Angel, Nancy Bo Flood, Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Peter Marino, and J.L. Powers–will begin posting short reviews, articles, and interviews on the topic of social justice and children’s literature. We’ll post…
Coming Soon
Regular blog posts from the writers at The Pirate Tree will be coming soon, Spring 2011! Look for us here!