Cheryl Willis Hudson is an author, editor, publisher, and respected member of the children’s book community. She is cofounder of Just Us Books, publisher and packager of books that celebrate African American children, as well as co-author of Bright Eyes, Brown Skin, a groundbreaking picture book. Cheryl enjoys singing spirituals a cappella and creating handmade story quilts. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Wade Hudson. This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 3-4, 2025.
Jilly Gagnon is the author of Scenes of the Crime, All Dressed Up, and the young adult novel #famous. Her humor writing, personal essays, and op-eds have appeared in Newsweek, Elle, Vanity Fair, Boston magazine, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with her family and two black cats. This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 3-4, 2025.
The Library of Congress recently announced the appointment of Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026. The winner of the Library’s 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, Sze will begin his laureateship with a reading of his work on Thursday, Oct. 9, in the Library’s historic Coolidge Auditorium. During his term as Poet Laureate, Sze, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Visit the Library of Congress' website for a press release about Arthur Sze here and for a short interview with Arthur Sze, here.
Henhouse by Emily Prescott (Penny Luck Studio, 2025) Effie and Hope Thatcher grew up knowing that their grandmother found the last good man. Heartbreak and disappointment were as familiar in Thatcher house as estrogen and town gossip. Hope's unexpected pregnancy announcement has twenty-three year old Effie realizing that she's the only woman in their all-female house that hasn't even dared to find love. With Hope's beloved under scrutiny and the arrival of a surly safety inspector in Effie's orbit, the lives of the Thatcher women are turned upside down as they question everything they thought they knew about how disappointing men could be. Fear encounters fate, independence confronts traditional family structures, and wistfulness challenges commitment as misconceptions and presumptions lead to heartache and emotional rifts. In this reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice light-hearted contemporary romance is mixed with the earnestness of family dynamics to tell a story about intricate family bonds, the romance of a small town, and the insecurities that arise when everything you've ever wanted is yours for the taking. --Publisher's blurb
About the author: Emily Prescott is an award winning screenwriter and author living in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Her love of storytelling led her to study film and receive her MFA in screenwriting, before exploring prose. When she's not pursuing her first Hollywood premiere or polishing her upcoming novels, she can be found sipping tea, crafting, and drawing. Join Emily at Gibson's Bookstore on Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 6:30 pm where she will be discussing her debut novel.
As a former radio broadcaster, Matt Forrest Esenwine spent a good part of his life writing and producing commercials, comedy bits, and news stories. He also wrote poetry, which was published in various national journals and anthologies including the Donald Hall tribute Except for Love (Encircle, 2019). Little did Matt know all this short-form writing would lead to his debut picture book, Flashlight Night (Astra Young Readers, 2017), which received numerous positive reviews including a Kirkus star, was selected as one of New York Public Library’s Best Books for Kids 2017, and even showed up on Encyclopedia Brittanica’s list of “11 Children’s Books That Inspire Imagination.”Matt now has nearly a dozen books to his credit including I Am Today (POW! Kids Books, 2022), recipient of the 2023 NH State Literary Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, and Once Upon Another Time (Beaming Books, 2021), co-authored with Charles Ghigna (aka, Father Goose®), a book that ALA’s Booklist called “a necessary addition to picture book collections.”
Meanwhile, his children’s poetry can be found in anthologies like The National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry (National Geographic Children’s Books, 2015) and Construction People (Wordsong, 2020), as well as his own debut anthology, A Universe of Rainbows (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2025), which has gained positive reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.
Matt lives in New Hampshire with his wife, kids, and more pets than he has fingers, so don’t ask him to count. This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 3-4, 2025.
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