Kelly Barnhill

  (note: this essay originally appeared at Powells Books Blog.) Once upon a time, I worked for the Park Service, minding a little ranger station on Marmot Lake — well above the treeline, about...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2018/05/22/on-wildness-cracked-worlds-monsters-and-the-odd-nature-of-the-short-story/

Dear Ones, I know I keep promising to return to a practice of regular blogging, and I continue to fall down on the job. My apologies. I’ve been busy. And scattered. But I was asked to give a Co...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/in-which-the-authoress-delivers-a-commencement-address-and-randomly-decides-to-put-mother-hulda-in-it-and-also-a-sorta-subversive-read-of-scripture-and-also-a-call-to-action/

  It’s been a bit, my darlings. Almost a whole year. And a lot has happened. Since, yanno. Winning a Newbery Medal and my life changing forever. Or whatever. I also have traveled around the co...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/oh-right-i-have-a-new-book/

  This has been a year of the unexpected – awards, lists, etc. I feel as though I’m in a state of perpetual astonishment. But likely the most unexpected of them all was the request by South ...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/in-which-the-authoress-gives-a-commencement-address-at-her-alma-mater-and-does-not-cry-okay-maybe-just-a-little-bit/

So. This blog. It’s been . . . well. It’s been a while. And maybe I’m ready to start blogging again, and maybe I’m not. I haven’t decided. In any case there was a thing I wanted to tal...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/in-which-i-take-a-hiatus-from-the-hiatus-in-order-to-talk-about-nerd-camp/

I’ve been going bananas lately. Teaching. Writing. Turning in books. Finishing other books. Starting other books. And a short story. And another short story. And another teaching gig. And volun...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/in-which-we-are-all-terribly-busy/

Ladies and Gentlemen, I had the great pleasure of co-hosting the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival at the beautiful Downtown Minneapolis Library a couple weeks ago. For those of you who don’t kno...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/90-second-newbery-the-twincy-edition/

This. A thousand times. Power concedes .... On March 2nd, members of my school’s PTA sent letters home to parents encouraging them to opt their children out of the PARCC Test. Their effort was ...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/when-tests-fail-opt-out/

Dear Administrators, Legislators, Pundits, Superintendents, Mayors, Governors, Education Policy Writers, Board Members, General Directors, Committee Members, Department Heads and other members of...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/a-modest-proposal/

Ladies and gentlemen and fabulous kids, today at 3:00 at the beautiful Downtown Minneapolis Library is the Twin Cities screening of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival , hosted by the amazing J...

https://kellybarnhill.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/the-90-second-newbery-film-festival-today-is-the-day/