A list of annual children's & YA book festivals and events for schools, teachers and parents to look out for. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/competitions... #kidlit #ukedchat

Book launch @Bookhaus. ‘Writing is so much more than entertainment,’ Sabrin Hasbun says. ‘Fiction stays with you,’ Sunny Singh agrees. ‘It has the power to change how you think…it’s a powerful tool of decolonisation.’

ICYMI: Bernardine Evaristo (‪ @bernardineevaristo.bsky.social‬ ) has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Prize For Fiction 👇 #BookSky

Concluding the epic Norse-myth inspired #romantasy which began with A Fate Inked in Blood, Danielle Jensen's brand new A Curse Carved in Bone is out today! 💙📚🪐 #newbooks

We have a brilliant #GIVEAWAY! ✨ #WIN a copy of PRETTY LITTLE THING by Kit Duffield in our #giveaway to showcase this fantastic book! To enter: 📚Follow @bytethebook.bsky.social 📚RT this Tweet 📚Comment below #ByteTheBookGiveaway Ends 23.59 on 31 May 2025, UK ONLY

News! SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social to Publish UK Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social and Breakout Artist Abbigayle Bircham’s Graphic Novel ‘My Dad Fights Demons!’ www.brokenfrontier.com/my-dad-fight...

What a night! Thank you to everyone who joined us in the room & beyond ✨ Share your celebrations with us with #BritishBookAwards & #Nibbies

ICYMI: I’ve had messages from writers saying they have no idea how many books they have sold, that they aren’t sure whether they should email their editor, that they don’t know whether they can query editorial notes, says Phoebe Morgan 👇 #BookSky

Had an absolute blast at the #Nibbies last night! Great to cheer on the winners & hear the brilliant speeches - it was such a pleasure to be there with so many of my publishing friends & colleagues to celebrate!! 🎉 #BritishBookAwards #BookSky @thebookseller.com

My feeling whenever I see people talking about using ChatGPT and having it ‘write’ their books and ‘make’ their ‘art’:

The Picture This! competition is open for entries in the UK! We're looking for outstanding up-and-coming illustrators able to tell a story in just three illustrations. 🖌️ Entries close on 31st May 2025. Enter here: wwpbic.com/uk/ T&Cs here: wwpbic.com/terms-and-co...

A Song of Legends Lost is an exciting new high fantasy debut from @mhayinde.bsky.social - epic complex worldbuilding, monsters and spirits, ancestral magic, and a sweeping and breathtaking plot. A promising start to a new series! Out now in hardback 💙📚🪐 #SFFbooks #NewBooks

@roannelau.bsky.social writes an insightful guest post for Women in SF&F Month in Fantasy Cafe! She shares more about her debut novel, Serpent Called Mercy, in her essay “Crayon Trails: On Friendship, Grief, and an Unlikely Book Deal” buff.ly/gWlra50

Unfortunately my nervous system can’t tell the difference between being held at gun point and being asked what a book I absolutely loved is about

The book industry is a welcoming place to many but there is work to be done and threats to face, says Philip Jones

Please join us to celebrate the launch of our new summer title - Sun Horse, Moon Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff - at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Summertown Branch in Oxford on June 10th. Tickets can be booked here: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/lucy-scholes-tiffany-francis-baker/ #booksky #booklaunch

From Magpie Books comes the 2nd book in the Sacred Bone series. The Witch of Wol Sin Lake by Lena Jeong, the sequel to And Break the Pretty Kings, crown princess Mirae continues to unravel her tangled future to save her queendom. #BFSReview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-w...

Authors, if you'd like to receive a monthly newsletter with the latest links, podcasts and posts about book marketing, writing craft and industry news (that impacts authors) then I'd love you to sign up to my free newsletter #booksky theempoweredauthor.com/free-newslet...

Due to the popularity of this event, we have increased the ticket allocation. Grab yours before they're all gone: tinyurl.com/bfsworld

🚨 EVENT ALERT 🚨 Join us on April 1st at 1pm for an online event with literary agent Anna Pallai and author John Grindrod as they share insights on: ✅ What agents look for in non-fiction ✅ When to pitch your book ✅ How to write a great submission bytethebook.com/event/real-d...

Absolutely blown away by the Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist! Huge congratulations to this incredible list of books & authors on the list 🤩📚🎉 #JhalakPrize25 #JhalakPrize #JhalakPrize2025 #Booksky #BooksWorthReading

We've got all this going on for BFS Online: Worldbuilding. Saturday 5th April 2025, 10am to 6pm (BST). Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsworld BFS member: free. Non-member: £5. #BritishFantasySociety #FantasyBooks #HorrorBooks #SFFBooks #AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #Worldbuilding #BookSky

Innnteresting! www.thebookseller.com/rights/schol... Paging @karriefransman.bsky.social @markbradley.bsky.social tho you've prob both seen!

Out now! #BfK271 March issue. Authorgraph interview Jenny McLachlan, Windows into Illustration Greg Stobbs, new Beyond the Secret Garden @darrenchetty.bsky.social, new Picture This @nicolettejones.bsky.social, extra interviews, features, comment & reviews #KidLit booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

Best-selling books in each territory. #LBF25

Top five titles in each territory. #LBF25

I’ll be live-posting from Steve Bohme’s session at #LBF25 for the next 45 minutes.

Big brains of #KidLitUK - someone's asking for books that provide authentic disability representation. What are your top recs? Across all spectrums of disability.

Our gorgeous Illustrator Guides for London Book Fair 2025 have arrived! We’re so excited to share these next week 🤩 #booksky

Happy #WorldBookDay2025 from us at the Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency! 🎉 To help you all celebrate, we have some fabulous book recommendations to make your #WBD25 the best yet! 😉📚 Watch here: vm.tiktok.com/ZNde2UJxu/

Job here for a Creative Writer to respond to Everything is Connected, an exhibition of artworks belonging to the Methodist Modern Art Collection during Bradford 2025 City of Culture. Deadline 31/3 Details in link. Please share :) online.updf.com/pdf/share?sh...

Looking forward to this! Join us!

What are the characters from Best Picture nominees reading? @jamesfolta.com has some guesses.

Big NEWS!! GOOD Fortune!!! BRAND NEW ART!!!! New Maneki-neko print at davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com #illustration #kawaii #japan #drawing #smallbusiness

TODAY is the last day to #ReadItForward! Buy ANY children’s book via Bookshop.org before midnight 28 Feb and we’ll donate 10% of the sale to the leading children’s reading charities, @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social 📚 Every sale supports independent bookshops 📚 bit.ly/RIFEB25

Here are some brilliant books for your children’s #libraries - and it’s worth adding all of the shortlisted titles too. It was hugely uplifting to be at #IBCawards2025 this evening, celebrating representation in children’s books. Powerful words from the host, founder, judges and winners! ❤️

✨🏙️ The #IBCawards2025 was a night to remember! Thank you to everyone who joined us, both in person and virtually, for an extraordinary celebration of inclusive children’s books. Missed the party? 🎉 Stream the IBC Awards ceremony on YouTube ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Rw...

The Guardian has today joined the creative industries in a nationwide campaign to highlight the risks around content being given away for free to AI firms. You can read more about how to get involved here: newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/

#Cursebound is out now. Author Saara El-Arifi will be on the podcast next week and I can’t wait! We have lots to talk about.

What's the difference between marketing and publicity? https://bit.ly/3rlXjzr University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be working with @zephyrbooks.bsky.social on @amdassu.bsky.social’s collection of stories #WildJourney, which is beautifully illustrated by @joelillington.bsky.social and inspired by the migratory flight of starlings ✨ www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

The consultation closes in two days. I've been putting it off because I've been snowed under with things, but I did it just now. Using the ALCS guide to indicate the important questions, I did it in about half an hour. If you're a writer, you should really find that half an hour and soon.

📖 Love Children's Books? You're in the Right Place! Join our growing community today! 👉 KidsWrd.com & AllKidsBooks.com Parents, teachers & book lovers – find the best kids’ books. Authors – showcase & promote your books to young readers! Illustrators – share your magical artwork with the world.

💀ROTTAGECORE💀 I curated this list with horror fans in mind who enjoy medical experiments on humans, body horror, grave digging, anatomy, gruesome descriptions of cadavers, slightly mad scientists, people in pies, and echoes of Frankenstein...enjoy! List in the alt text Horror Books 🩸📚

*New* on my blog: Basic FAQ abt #KidLitLaunches threads: why I created them, how to use them, how to help. Also a list of links to all the weekly Bluesky launch threads (current and past): debbieohi.link/kidlitlaunches I'll keep this page updated as I post more wkly #KidLit book launch threads.

We have an exciting #GIVEAWAY! ✨ #WIN a set of ‘Guardians of the New Moon’ books by Eric Huang & illustrated by Phùng Nguyên Quang to #Giveaway! To enter: 📚Follow @bytethebook.bsky.social 📚RT this post 📚Comment below #ByteTheBookGiveaway Ends 23.59 on 16 February 2025 UK ONLY

Booksellers, writers, publishers, teachers, anyone in the world of books and education... please sign this open letter about what Israeli soldiers did at the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Queen Mary Wasifiri New Writing Prize opens now, closes in June. The prize supports writers who have not published book-length works, no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri Details in link. Please share :)

Question: I've been looking at stats for what proportion of the total UK book market is made up of children's books. I've seen 30% thrown around a bit but can't find solid recent stats . Any stat-heads can help? #KidlitUK #Booksky