FOR PUBLISHING PROFESSIONALS
(EDITORS, AGENTS, PUBLICISTS, MARKETERS, ETC.)
Publishing Industry Resources Document created and maintained by Shelly Romero with special thanks to contributor Veronica Park
Literary Agents of Change: nonprofit that helps dismantle the barriers to entry into a career as a literary agent for members of historically underrepresented groups; offers fellowship programs and mentorships
BOOKSHELVES
American Indians in Children's Literature
A Thousand Worlds - books by BIPOC, recommended by BIPOC professionals
TeachingBooks.net - great for looking up word counts
SEEKING REPRESENTATION
#DVPit: “#DVpit is a Twitter event created to showcase pitches from marginalized voices that have been historically underrepresented in publishing.”
Equity Directory: a database of BIPOC literary agents created by Literary Agents of Change to help querying authors and illustrators find and connect with BIPOC agents and to foster community between BIPOC agents and their publishing peers.
conferences
Kweli Color of Children’s Literature Conference
PODCASTS
Minorities in Publishing hosted by Jennifer Baker
Graphic Novel TK hosted by Alison Wilgus and Gina Gagliano
88 Cups of Tea hosted by Yin Chang
NEWSLETTERS
Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf
Jennifer Baker’s “Minorities in Publishing”
DongWon Song’s “Publishing Is Hard”
Patrice Caldwell’s “Whimsically Yours”
Preeti Chhibber’s “Please Read Me”
Caron Levis’s C-Notes
Aida Salazar’s Musings
The Occasional Newsletter by Mượn Thị Văn
Adam’s Notes by Adam Ming (for illustrators)
bLOGS
Picturebook Makers by dPICTUS
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Julie Danielson
Only Picture Books by Ryan G. Van Cleave
Let’s Talk Picture Books by Mel Schuit
Inkygirl: Reading, Writing, and Illustrating Children’s Books by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
INDUSTRY ARTICLES
“‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing' Revisited” by Shelly Romero and Adriana M. Martínez Figueroa, Publisher’s Weekly, 2021
“Publishing Statistics on Children's Books about People of Color and First/Native Nations and by People of Color and First/Native Nations Authors and Illustrators” Documented by the Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
“The Diversity Gap in Children’s Book Publishing, 2018” by Jalissa Corrie, Lee & Low Books, 2018
“Why Children’s Books Should Be A Little Bit Sad” by Kate DiCamillo, Time.com, 2018
“The Apartheid of Children’s Literature” by Christopher Myers, NY Times, 2014
“Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books” by Walter Dean Myers, NY Times, 2014
We Are Still Not Doing Enough for Diversity in Kid lit by Ellen Oh, 2014
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