If you can, please support @booktrust.org.uk who, like Father Christmas himself, are giving away book parcels so that kids in care or at risk can have brand new books of their own. www.booktrust.org.uk/xmas #MagicOfBooks

This #TransgenderDayOfRememberance, we remember the over 280 trans people killed globally this year and the many more lost to suicide. They deserved to live safely, without fear, and to be fully who they are. May their memories move us to keep fighting for a world where all trans people are free.

November is Empathy Action Month - which means if you're a teacher, this is your chance to download free author videos (including mine!) and writing prompts to help your students grow their happiness through using their imaginations. empathylab.uk/empathy-acti...

To aid folks in their ongoing education regarding the nature of book bans and censorship this #BannedBooksWeek (and beyond), we’re giving away a bundle of nonfiction and fiction books about the ongoing fight against book bans! Check out our post on Instagram to enter ⬇️ 📷 bit.ly/47dZjvJ

In my local area, faith groups have supported each other after last week's attack in Manchester. This is how we stay strong. Fellow @littlerebsprize.bsky.social winner AM Dassu's 'Fight Back' shows this in action. DM me if you know a school/youth group who could use a copy, I'd love to buy them one.

Now feels like a good time to mention that I do school visits! www.sarahhaggerholt.com/author-visits

1/4 🥳CONGRATULATIONS to the first ever double prize winner of The Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social #KidLitUK #UKKidLit …a little thread on why this book matters so much ⬇️

It was such a joy yesterday to see my book 'The Fights That Make Us' win the Little Rebels Award. I hope it can help inspire, encourage and empower all us - old and young rebels alike - to carry on fighting for equality.

10. Overheard in a #LittleRebelsAward Judges Meeting🤫: “the parallel texts are a great mechanism” “It really shows what it’s like to be non-binary in a school setting” Judges @chrishaughton.bsky.social & @soofiya.bsky.social The Fights That Make Us. @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social #UKKidLit

4. Overheard in a #LittleRebelsAward Judges Meeting🤫: “Very accomplished and proficient…I want to see this in schools..It’s not just about LGBT rights but the need to fight. It’s an ongoing process” Judge @alomshaha.bsky.social on The Fights That Make Us. @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social #UKKidLit

🌈 Thank you to @thediversebookawards for longlisting 'The Fights That Make Us'. It's such a joy to see my story about campaigning for LGBTQ+ rights and equality in the 80s and today touching people's hearts and reaching new audiences.

I am so delighted to be shortlisted for the Little Rebels Award again this year, alongside this stellar line up of stories. If the world needs anything right now, it needs little (and big) rebels, learning from our history to imagine different, better, flourishing futures.

🌈 Book 21 for #PrideMonth: The Fights That Make Us by @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social 🧡✊ A powerful and hopeful story about friendship, activism, and standing up for what’s right—perfect for tweens & teens navigating identity and change. 📚🏳️‍🌈 @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social @ciliplgbtq.bsky.social

I've been out and about in schools this Pride month, sharing stories and celebrating diversity! Thank you to Flora Stevenson school (pictured on this lovely mug) for inviting me all the way to Edinburgh. With events in Salford, Manchester & London still to come, it's nice to be home for a breather.

Happy #PrideMonth ! We're going to be giving suggestions of great books you could read this month starting with Nothing Ever Happens Here @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social , we're sure you will enjoy it! You can find out more about Sarah's writing & book her here: authorsalouduk.co.uk/speaker/sara...

Sometimes you discover a book so wonderful that you want to get everyone you know to read it. The Line They Drew Through Us is one of those books. Hiba Noor Khan has taken the pain of Partition & created a story full of warmth, honesty and love. It couldn't be more relevant. I learnt so much.

I couldn't be happier than to be shortlisted for this award for historical books for children & young people. Telling and celebrating and learning from LGBTQ+ history is such a crucial tool to help us respond to what's happening in the world right now 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Take on an empathy challenge with me and Ashley Hickson-Lovence for this year's #Empathy Festival. Free resources, including our video, from empathylab.uk

The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.

🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 So delighted to see 'Fights That Make Us' on this list and congratulations to all the longlisted authors and illustrators!

Less than a month until Empathy Day from @empathylabuk.bsky.social and, blimey, what the world needs right now is an empathy revolution! Register NOW for these free resources (including on The Fights That Make Us) for families, schools, libraries, bookshops... empathylab.uk/empathy-day/

I'm so looking forward to taking part in #EmpathyDayFestival - it's happening in June, but now is the time to register for schools, households and groups to register for free and fabulous resources ⬇

I didn't know this! Let's celebrate these women!

PLR is the money writers and illustrators get when their work is borrowed from libraries and it's one reason we love libraries so much. Please use your nearest library with abandon! And thank you @britishlibrary.bsky.social for administering it. Every year it makes a huge difference to many of us.

Happy, happy PLR day! And thank you to everyone who borrows books from public libraries. It's so heart-warming to see how many people borrowed my books in the last year, I hope you got at least 11.8p of enjoyment out of each loan!

Right now feels like an important time to be remembering the history of past struggles for LGBT+ rights and to get inspired for the future. I'm chuffed that The Fights That Make Us is on this list of top LGBTQ+ Historial Novels.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Unpublished writers of middle-grade and early teen fiction can enter to win £3000 and 9 months of mentoring and professional development from Hachette Children’s Group. Part of the Northern Writers’ Awards. Other prizes and awards on their site. Please share

One of the many things I do besides writing children's books is blogging for @humanists.uk ceremonies. Talking to people about their weddings, naming ceremonies & the funerals they've organised always gives me a lift because they are so filled with love. See what I mean. humanists.uk/ceremonies/w...

True and accurate data matters. If you're trans and/or nonbinary, filling this in helps Trans Actual with their work. If you're cis, tell your mates.

Thinking about author visits for next term? Here's what I offer and all the details. But if you don't book me, do book an author you love, because author visits in Y7&8 can make a huge difference at a time when some kids simply stop reading. www.sarahhaggerholt.com/author-visits

Made a shortlist. Great news.

Thank you to the Toppsta reviewers who put 'The Fights That Make Us' on their 100 books of 2024 list. Reviews and more fab books here 👇 toppsta.com/books/detail...

And more about all the Polari Prize winners! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

So delighted that my story that brings together 1980s and 2020s queer young people has secured the Children's & YA Polari Prize this year!