Thereās absolutely no way Iām gonna keep up with this, but hereās me ranting about censorship and childrenās books in Russia open.substack.com/pub/lechatā¦
Samokat's re-edition of Grisha is Not a Witness, a novel in verse about school bullying, has black lines where mentions of protests, Ukraine, and a blocked messenger used to be. The original ending ā a teenager in a police van after protests, his classmates in OMON helmets ā gone
Holidays might be well over, but yesterday my local bookshop handed me a little miracle: a scarce copy of The Santa Claus Club; Santa Claus for President by L. J. Bridgman (H. M. Caldwell Company, 1907)
CfA: Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program
Deadline: Jan 29
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Maximum stipend of $28,000 for doctoral students at US universities, regardless of citizenship, whose dissertation is within 19th-early 21st c. Russian/Soviet historical studies.
Online webinar: Publishing Childrenās Books in the Russia-Ukraine War: The Role of Translations
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World
University of Reading
Thursday 11 December 5pm UK
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"Looking... is a practice, a form of attention paid, which is, for many, the essence of prayer."
Poet Lia Purpura on the art of noticing: themarginalian.org/2025/09/0ā¦
š¢ Call for Papers
Strenae has issued a call for papers on the theme: āSelf-translation in children's and young adult books.ā
š Deadline for proposals: December 1st
š Details: buff.ly/TjOg6Cv
#CFP: Crossing Borders, Shifting Selves: Migration, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Childhood in Global Childrenās Literature
IRCL Special Issue
Deadline:November 1 2025
Johari Murray (jnals.cc@gmail.com) and Izaskun Elorza (iea@usal.es); and Roxanne Harde (rharde@ualberta.ca)