The perfect snowy read to add to your Christmas lists! 🤩🤩❄️❄️❄️❄️ #ukkidlit #kidlitul

Because it's a good day, a thread of images from fantastic show I saw last week: African-American artist Allan Rohan Crite at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. First up, Crite's luminous "Streetcar Madonna," which resonates with incoming NYC mayor's pledge to make transit more affordable

I’m starting to believe the current view that the Supreme Court is actually voting to save Tr*** from his own idiocy.

In our latest History Workshop article, Sara Kazmi presents a curation of two protest poems in translation from the Punjabi anticolonial tradition.

This book is out now - and yes, I have ordered a copy for the nephews!! #kidlit #zohranmamdani

NEW We spoke to Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, the novelist and judge on this year's Booker Prize panel, about the six books on their 2025 shortlist fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

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Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century. nyti.ms/47O4mT0

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

Reread ‘The Magician’s Nephew’ recently and had forgotten what an utterly execrable arse Uncle Andrew was. #Narnia

Great round up of new poetry by @betarish.bsky.social #ukpoets

#ukkidlit #kidlituk

Hare and hedgehog costumes, from the 1862 fairytale-themed ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maskenfest/

The new #ChildrensBookerPrize will included translated works! Here are literature researchers @sophieheywood.bsky.social and Emma Page's 5 recommendations for excellent translated books to get kids passionate about reading! @thebookerprizes.com 🔗 rdg.ac/4qQHv1M

OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-Two: 'Ghost Ship'. badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two

A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE, now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

The Bill de Blasio story is *amazing*. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

UK newspaper apologizes for fake De Blasio interview criticizing Mamdani

New @EmpirePodUK pod-drop: Writers on Empire Part 2: Orwell: Fighting Fascism In The Spanish Civil War linktr.ee/empirepoduk

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A little round-up of illustrated books for kids about the many festivities of autumn – so many beauties! #Diwali #DiadelosMuertos #MidAutumnFestival #Halloween #kidlit #kidlituk #ukkidlit

Shiva Seated on the Crescent Moon, Jaipur, ca. 1880, Watercolor with gold on card

can't wait to read your poems. Send me your bangers, both quiet and noisy!

A little round-up of illustrated books for kids about the many festivities of autumn – so many beauties! #Diwali #DiadelosMuertos #MidAutumnFestival #Halloween #kidlit #kidlituk #ukkidlit

#kidlituk #ukkidlit Streaming and in person tickets still available!!!

Our friends @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social are gathering information about "soft censorship" happening in the US According to School Library Journal, soft censorship is a "quiet banishing that often comes without explanation." If you've seen it in your community, please respond to their survey

A reminder that if you have travel plans over half term BOTH #TheDestinyofMinouMoonshine & #TheVoyageofSamSingh are available as audio via Audible/Spotify & are read by the amazing actors Safiyya Ingar & Sid Sagar respectively!!

How can different forms of literature can help us make sense of environmental change, reconnect with place, and imagine more hopeful ways of living? Book here for our Art Club event on Thursday which will include a poetry workshop run by Dr Yvonne Reddick www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

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Love everything about this Mariana Enríquez interview especially this quote: ‘So the pit of vertigo that is the internet is something that, as a writer, I think is necessary to dive into. It doesn’t stop because we don’t look at it.’ #booksky observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Our Masterclass Webinar series on getting your #poetry published starts on Monday 17 November. Sign up for this course of three weekly sessions led by Jane Commane, for just £45. 🎥 Recordings sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-mas...

‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read

It's sunday so I am finally reading the links I opened during the week. Or possibly last week. Anyway, this one is worth your time (should be a free link, it was for me at least). Katherine Rundell on reading for pleasure. #UKKidLit #KidLitUK www.thetimes.com/uk/get-brita...

A delicious children’s/YA roundup this month from @imogenrw.bsky.social via @theguardian.com - particularly love all the new MG/YA horror! #kidlituk #ukkidlit www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Exciting! #kidlituk #ukkidlit #ukya

Lovely piece by @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social on the new Children’s Booker: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

From the November Harper’s Index. buff.ly/Hen1y6H

“I want children to understand, from a very young age, that we all have to work together for a better tomorrow” fivebooks.com/best-books/a...

Definitely planning a visit! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

📣 10 days left to apply #LondonWritersAwards! ⏰ Applications for the #LondonWritersAwards close at 5pm on Thursday 30 October – happy writing! 📹 Featured in video - Daniel Culpan (current #LondonWritersAwards cohort)

Today’s #poemsontheunderground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social

This is so lovely: on Phyllis Wheatley by Jade Cuttle.

Very excited about the upcoming @ibbyuk.bsky.social conference! Come along and hear from these AMAZING speakers or stream online. WHOSE HISTORY? Challenging historical narratives through writing for children and young people #kidlituk #ukkidlit #edusky

Do all mythologies have a common source—and is it possible to uncover that primordial story?

Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social. With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙 www.silverpress.org/collections/...

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...