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MN BIPOC Kidlit Creators

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COME FIND US!

Want to know more about our members or join the colllective? Visit us online at www.mnbipockidlit.com

November 2025

BOOK NEWS

Debra Stone's The House on Rondo received a positive review from Booklist! Check out the November 1, 2025 issue. You can order her book here!

Marcie Rendon’s book Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium won the Heartland Booksellers Award! You can order a copy here.

Vanessa Lee Christensen’s two new releases are available for pre-order now at Gloo Books. She also has three new travel board books for babies launching on Kickstarter! 

WRITING RESOURCES

Sign up for Sun Yung Shin’s amazing newsletter here!

CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

Sarah Warren will be a virtual presenter at the Twin Cities Picure Book Salon on Monday, November 3rd from 7-8pm. Here’s a description of her workshop: Aritsts fear rejection. We fear failure. We fear public humiliation. Fear can make us self-conscious, risk-averse validation seekers. The worst part is that our biggest fears might come true. Let’s talk about how we can learn to trust, celebrate, and use our voices despite our fears. There’s hope. Let’s find it together! Come ready to write. You will have the opportunity to share. Sign up here!

Good nature writing invites humans into a deeper relationship with history, futures, land, water, air, and fellow living beings. Sun Yung Shin will lead students through an exploration of several short, lively works by contemporary writers. Participants will also read poems, essays, and possibly fiction that asks them to think and feel ecologically, offering them opportunities to attend to their need to heal collective and individual ruptures. They will write from prompts and spend time sharing their voices. A final share will include feedback that will be both encouraging and constructive toward participants’ writing goals. Sign up here!

EVENTS

Cristeta Boarini will be reading at Next Chapter Booksellers on October 29th for Saint Paul Almanac from 6-8pm. Find out more here.

Join Sun Yung Shin and Mélina Mangal in celebrating the launch of their beautiful new book. Register here.

Join Thuba Nguyễn for a read aloud at this community event. Register here.

Debra Stone will read from The House on Rondo on November 6th at 6:30 pm at the Hennepin History Museum. She will also be in conversation with John Crippen, Executive Director of the Hennepin History Museum. Light refreshments will be served. 

Cristeta Boarini will be at Dual Citizen Brewing with Paranoid Tree Press for a Twin Cities Book Festival afterparty starting at 7pm on November 8th. Find out more here.

Debra Stone will read from The House on Rondo at the Rondo Center for Diverse Expression on November 13th from 5:30-6:30 pm. Register here.

Debra will also be reading on November 19 from 6:30-7:30 pm, at Comma Book Shop.

WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO

Collective members (l-R) Marcie Rendon, Shannon Gibney, and Sun Yung Shin were on an Author’s Spotlight panel with fellow KidLit writer Megan Manor at the MN Library Association’s annual conference in St. Cloud in October.

Cristina Oxtra was on the Kidlit Love podcast. You can listen here.

Colletive members Cristina Oxtra, Mélina Mangal, and Karen Kenney participated in the MN STEM Book Fest at The Bakken!

Shannon Gibney, Rosemond Evans, And Trần Thị Minh Phước hosted storytimes and gave out books at the YWCA Mpls Midtown Strong event!

Timi Bliss was a featured artist at the Midtown Farmers Market’s monthly author event hosted by Sarah Warren. She gave out signed copies of her book In Search of the Gingerbread Man!

Karen Latchana Kenney launched her new nonfiction young adult title Fascinating Fungi at The Thinking Spot bookstore!

Emiko Rainbow and Sarah Warren signed books with fellow kid lit writers and illustrators at the Mpls/St Paul Airport. Their books are being featured in a year-long rotating picture book exhibit. Find out more at picturebookparade.com

Check out our calendar to find us out in the wild. Want us to come to you? Members are available for school visits, book clubs, panels, conferences, and speaking engagments. Need funding to hire an artist to visit your school? Explore this website to access classroom grants.

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MN BIPOC Kidlit Creators

310 East 38th Street #206, Minneapolis, United States

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