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It's official! Diana Murray's debut picture books, NED THE KNITTING PIRATE: A SALTY YARN (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan, 2014) and GRIMELDA, THE VERY MESSY WITCH (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2015) are scheduled to be published! More news to come soon.
 Diana Murray won the 2013 SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for her poem, "Sandy Surprise" (Clubhouse Jr., August 2012), which was illustrated beautifully by Patrice Barton.
 She received an additional Magazine Merit Honor Award for her poem, "Unwelcome to Opposite Island" (Highlights for Children, July 2012), which featured an amazing full-spread illustration by John O'Brien. Diana has many other poems published and forthcoming in magazines including Highlights for Children, Highlights High Five, Highlights Hello, Clubhouse Jr., and Spider Magazine.
"Write Like a 'Top Chef' with Diana Murray" (guest post on Laura Sassi's blog)
"Idea Mash-up" (guest post on Tara Lazar's blog for PiBoIdMo 2012)
PiBoIdMo (Picture Book Idea Month) is a fun annual event hosted on Tara Lazar's blog. Picture book writers and illustrators are challenged to come up with thirty ideas in thirty days.
"An interview with Diana Murray" (Jody Jensen Shaffer's blog)
"Character First" (guest post on Lynne Marie Pisano's blog)
"How I Got My Agent" (guest post on Heather Ayris Burnell's blog)
Diana Murray won the 2010 SCBWI Barbara Karlin Grant for her rhyming picture book manuscript. You can read more about her experience here: "PiBoIdMo Success Story" (Tara Lazar's blog).
 Diana's poem "Synchronized Roberta" appears in the poetry anthology, AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!: A GLOBAL GATHERING OF SPORTS POEMS, edited by Heidi B. Roemer and Carol-Ann Hoyte, and illustrated by Kevin Sylvester. The anthology features the works of 50 poets including J. Patrick Lewis, David L. Harrison, and Laura Purdie Salas.
In 2010, Diana participated in a fundraiser called, "Critters Against Cancer", which was hosted on Jenni Bielicki's blog.
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