Alice Levine

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We’re in Leeds, back when I was a student. Let’s say 10 years ago. I said LET’S SAY 10 YEARS AGO. A time I still have anxiety dreams about. Not because I didn’t love university, I really did. That’s where I got into making TV in the student “studio” (and got rejected by the student radio station, my villain origin story). Where I met the My Dad Wrote A Porno boys/men and where I volunteered in the union’s vegan co-op so I could get wholesale discount on chocolate soya milk.

2 months ago | slj.com | Florence Simmons |Ellen Williams |Alice Levine

Authors kyle Lukoff (seated) and Gavin Grimm (on screen) visit a New York City school library. The Lambda Literary LGBTQ Writers in Schools (WIS) program in New York City is holding strong—even as book bans in schools surge nationwide and anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation expands. Now in its ninth year, the LGBTQ WIS program will offer subsidized LGBTQ author visits, free books, and teacher training to 173 schools across New York City between February and June of 2025.

2 months ago | slj.com | Kara Yorio |Alice Levine |Kathy Ishizuka |Kara Newhouse

Mac Barnett Named New National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Ambassadorship Will Celebrate the Power of the Picture Book Art Form Proposals Now Accepted for National Ambassador Tour Appearances The Library of Congress and Every Child a Reader today announced the appointment of Mac Barnett as the 2025-2026 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Barnett is the ninth author to hold this position.

2 months ago | slj.com | Alice Levine |Kathy Ishizuka |Kara Newhouse |Christina Joseph

There are varied paths to the profession. Find out how these librarians found their way to the library. I nspired by 2021 School Librarian of the Year Amanda Jones posting that an episode of The Rosie O’Donnell Show was responsible for her becoming a school librarian, SLJ senior news editor Kara Yorio took to Bluesky to ask for more librarian origin stories. The responses didn’t disappoint. Here are some of our favorites. (And, by the way, you can find SLJ on Bluesky now @slj.com.)  Get Print.

2 months ago | slj.com | Alice Levine |Kathy Ishizuka |Kara Newhouse

Excellence in Nonfiction AwardThe finalists of the YALSA's Excellence in Nonfiction Award were announced in December 2024. 2025 Winner:Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992; Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo. Norton. May 2024. 368p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9781324030904.