We’re thrilled to reveal this year’s CLiPPA shortlist! 🌟 Featuring works by Sean Taylor, Traci N. Todd, Sam Gayton, Simon Mole & John Agard, it's a true celebration of poetry’s power and joy! Sign up to the Shadowing Scheme: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/1RW5-1LFF/clippa26

‘The late scholar-activist Ambalavaner Sivanandan said of post-colonial migration: “We are here because you were there.” I was never taught this simple fact at school.’ #historiesofempire www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Refugees and migration books for children and teens, featuring books by Erika Meza, Na’ima B. Robert, Brian Bilston, Eoin Colfer, Onjali Q. Raúf, Sita Brahmachari, Armin Greder, Michael Rosen, Ele Fountain and Malcolm Duffy. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/refug... #teachertwitter #kidlit

Blue Morning Glories, 1935 by Georgia O'Keeffe #Womensart

It’s true Bluesky has its flaws, but overall I’m pretty happy here surrounded by Wombles, poets, writers and other bookish people. skircle.me #booksky #poetrysky

‘The late scholar-activist Ambalavaner Sivanandan said of post-colonial migration: “We are here because you were there.” I was never taught this simple fact at school.’ #historiesofempire www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 We're super excited to announce our collaboration with the incredible Quentin Blake who's brought to life this year's Simple Acts. Running from 15-21 June, Refugee Week invites us all to celebrate the creativity, contributions & resilience of refugees.

Out now for 12+ readers, Hyo and The Deep-Rooted Demon by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh is a fabulous fantasy full of thrilling twists and turns. @scholasticuk.bsky.social worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/h...

How Toni Morrison blurred the lines between being an editor and a writer

open.substack.com/pub/themadri... #iran #Persian #Persia #Iran #poetry #history #culture

I’ve always loved dandelions - such happy flowers! Had a mini-ode in the last issue of children’s poetry mag Tyger Tyger: #ukkidlit #kidlituk #ukpoets #poetrysky tygertyger.net/dandelion-by...

🎉 Your Jhalak Prize shortlists are here! 🎉 Celebrating its tenth year, the Jhalak Prize awards the best books by writers of colour across the UK and Ireland 👏🏾📚 "Here are books that excavate buried histories, push boundaries and lead us to brighter imagined and possible worlds." buff.ly/SA3QDDX

📚Booksellers and Publishers! 📚 Did you know that Pen&inc. #CILIP's free EDI-focused Children’s & YA magazine, is now fully digital, open access & completely FREE? Sign up to get all editorial + listings straight to your inbox: https://ow.ly/4Z0B50Yi6nR

On this week's #LARBRadioHour, Karan Mahajan joins to talk about his new novel "The Complex," toxic masculinity, and nationalism. Listen now on our website or wherever you get your podcasts: https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/karan-mahajan-complex-podcast-interview/

Marking is almost done - looking forward to diving into these April reads!! #booksky

Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now. Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's the result of book censorship. bookriot.com/book-bans-an...

We’re almost a week into the kickstarter. Sitting at 58% funded now. #projectwelove www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Dear #booksky and #kidlituk #authors #illustrators this is a petition started by Paul of Excelsior comic awards to make school libraries statutory in secondary schools. It needs 10k signatures. Please sign 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Have you ever dreamed of working in children’s publishing? If so, you should apply for the Children’s Books North Network Mentor Scheme! Open to anyone interested in working in publishing based in the North of England, or Scotland. No prior experience needed. Link in bio to apply 📚🩷

For #KidsBooksFriday this week I wanted to highlight books that are perfect for the chronically underserved 12-14 age group. What great books would you encourage kids to seek out at this age? #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

PSA for #kidlit enthusiasts, parents of bored kids, educators – @waterstoneskids.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social has a great clearance on at the moment with some bargain middle-grade books – including #TheVoyageofSamSingh! #kidlituk #ukkidlit #booksky

From the brilliant Julia Bell, whose 'Between the Lines' is out soon: www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Betwee... Full Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/professo... #writersky #writingintheageofai

Had the most fabulous Sunday at #Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social talking multilingualism, exophony and the metonymic gap with Donna Scott, @aliettedebodard.com @thecallya.bsky.social & @k-a-teryna.bsky.social & watching panels on folklore, global SFF and religion in worldbuilding! #iridescence

'In 2024 only 5 per cent of students across England and Wales studied a whole text by a female author at GCSE, while even fewer studied one by an author of colour.' Good article on the constraints around text choice. I'm not expecting the new curric will significantly alter this (p'haps poetry) 😔.

Congratulations Will Dobson @wydobson.bsky.social whose MG novel Kamizen: Fortress of Lost Memories is published today! Described as Ghibli-esque, it follows Jonty's adventures in a magical Japanese land in the sky collecting memories #ukkidlit #kidlituk www.waterstones.com/book/kamizen...

British novelist Gwendoline Riley wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize

A very happy book birthday to Lucas Maxwell's A Million Tiny Missiles All at Once! When Elias's family falls apart, he decides to bring them back together, but things go wrong... This won the 2024 Times/Chicken House competition & looks brilliant. #ya #nd #kidlituk #ukkidlit www.lucasmaxwell.co.uk

So pleased for everyone! especially happy for the genius Kei Miller 🎉🎉🎉 windhamcampbell.org

God this poem is haunting me again.

Had the most fabulous Sunday at #Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social talking multilingualism, exophony and the metonymic gap with Donna Scott, @aliettedebodard.com @thecallya.bsky.social & @k-a-teryna.bsky.social & watching panels on folklore, global SFF and religion in worldbuilding! #iridescence

In “The Witch,” by Marie NDiaye, a mother passes to her daughters a secret, burdensome power, but sorcery can’t fix a household that’s coming apart. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I feel like this hasn’t got as much attention as it should have…. #humanauthored #humanedited

The #kickstarter for Thyme Travellers 2 An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is now live! #projectwelove @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Chatted with USA Today about selling books, navigating platform, consolidation, and how it isn’t all about who you know. www.usatoday.com/story/life/2...

Today's conversation is a classic from the archives, with SFF legend and short storyteller extraordinaire, Ted Chiang Audio 🔉: milkweed.org/between-the-...

Between them, @vajra.me 's superb THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS & RAKESFALL have: 🏆Won Ignyte, Otherwise, Crawford, Nebula, and Locus Awards. 🌟Been nominated for BFA, Locus, Nebula, Hugo, Dragon, and Lammy awards and TWO Ursula K. Le Guin Prizes. If THAT doesn't convince you to try them, we give up!

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... Don't mess with these nuns, they know what they want.

Not a book I’m selling, but I wrote a little thing this week for Docalogue about Orwell‘s relevancy & Raoul Peck’s new film, & it hasn’t gotten much attention yet. So I’m sharing again for anyone who’d like to read. I’m proud of it & think it matters now! docalogue.com/orwell-225/

Poems are all over MARTA trains for National Poetry Month, thanks to Poetry@Tech's collaboration with MARTA's public art program, Artbound. Poetry@Tech collaborated with Atlanta-based artists Chloe Alexander, Jamaal Barber, Nick Benson, and Sanithna.

The crazy thing to me about this headline is that it isn’t a careless typo. There’s an editor in the international section of NYT who actually thinks this is what NATO stands for and typed this headline and thought: “Oooh, that’s pithy.”

I love Marie Ndiaye’s hypnotic fiction, looking forward to this: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/b...

Anyone else trying NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month)? I’m posting daily exercises on my Insta here: www.instagram.com/carrie__etter/ Join me, and/or please share! The more, the merrier!

Happy #NaPoWriMo ! I’m trying short forms this month, from haiku & tanka to cinquains, elevenies & zuhitsu. First pic of my 3 pamphlets, inspirations, wonderful poets who’ve said kind words & my short poem after Evie Shockley’s ‘My Life As China’ thebraag.co/product/empi... #NaPoWriMo26 #poetrysky

Happy #NaPoWriMo ! I’m trying short forms this month, from haiku & tanka to cinquains, elevenies & zuhitsu. First pic of my 3 pamphlets, inspirations, wonderful poets who’ve said kind words & my short poem after Evie Shockley’s ‘My Life As China’ thebraag.co/product/empi... #NaPoWriMo26 #poetrysky

Where to send your poetry pamphlet open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

Children's and Young Adult Literature (CYAL) at UCL. The next session will discuss 2 books that explore racism and racialisation - 'Tyger' and 'The Doll Test'. The CYAL book group is open to all students and staff at UCL and to people beyond UCL by invitation (just send me a message).

Thrilled to have a new poem, 'Summoning' up on @inksweatandtears.co.uk theme 'Colouring Outside the Lines' chosen by the brilliant Zakia Carpenter-Hall, and in such great company! #ukpoets #poetrysky #mondayreads