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Calling The Moon

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Publisher's Weekly Announcement : 

​Melanie Cordova at Candlewick Press has bought, at auction, world rights to Calling the Moon, edited by Aida Salazar (l.) and Yamile Saied Méndez. The anthology collects short stories and poems about menstruation written by contributors of color, including Méndez, Salazar, Hilda Burgus, Veeda Bybee, Margarita Engle, Saadia Faruqi, Nikki Grimes, Leah Henderson, Erin Entrada Kelly, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Elise McMullen-Ciotti, Mason J., Emma Otheguy, Naheed Hasnat Senzai, Christina Soontornvat, and Ibi Zoboi. Calling the Moon will feature contemporary fictional middle grade stories that reflect a range of emotions, experiences, cultural, ethnic, racial, and gender expressions. The book is planned for spring 2022; Marietta B. Zacker and Linda Camacho, both at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency, represented Salazar and Méndez, respectively.

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