Recent post! Books and magazines I’m really enjoying. Well done Aeos Magazine, @barbarableiman.bsky.social @citizen-chris.bsky.social @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social and Simon Lamb. You stars! 🌟🌟🌟

Wow! TWO of my books have been voted for by kids to be shortlisted for the 2025 Children's Literature Festivals Book Awards! 🤩 Thnx to Ian Morris who illustrated both, to publishers @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social and Man Met Uni & Your Story, and all the children who voted! 🥳🎊✨

Lovely pic from the #CLiPPA book ceremony with primary school legends Jack and Caddus from Summercroft Primary 😊 They did an exceptional job performing 'Saving Face' from #WeAreFamily in front of 1000 people! Good job, lads! 🫡

Hi @katewakeling.bsky.social, I just wanted to say how lovely it was to meet you at the Clippa ceremony. Despite how confident i am on stage, I find those sorts of after-events quite anxiety-inducing, but chatting to you really helped calm my nerves, so huge thank you! 😊

Today, I receive an MBE for Services to Access to the Arts for Underprivileged Young People. I'd like to dedicate it to my dad, who raised me and my five siblings, who taught me the importance of education and who encouraged me to chase my dreams. Nais tuke, Dad! 🙏

✨️ Super-excited to share that We Are Family has been shortlisted for The 2025 Week Junior Book Awards! ✨ Huge thanks to my publisher, Otter-Barry Books, for taking a chance on this proud working class writer! 🫶

All 5 of the '25 CLiPPA shortlisted poets are having chats with Nikki Gamble for her Just Imagine UK podcast! I had a blast chatting with her, and performing 'Boxing With My Dad' and 'This Field On This Farm'. Here's the link: justimagine.co.uk/2025/05/13/w...

Sounds Made by Humans, an album of my poems put to music by the brilliant Catenary Wires comes out a week tomorrow. To celebrate, Rough Trade are releasing an exclusive white vinyl version. If you fancy getting hold of a copy, it can be ordered here: www.roughtrade.com/product/soun...

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“Five new poetry collections, each with their own magic.” Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now! booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...

1/2 Every emotion in the gorgeous funny and moving We Are FamilyI’ve been reading it with my 8yo (we take turns in reading the verses). From lumps in my throat to tears of laughter this book about @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social real life childhood has it all…

Less than two weeks to go until #BigCatReadOn is here! 🤩 Big Cat Read On is a new collection of 20 chapter books designed to improve reading stamina and comprehension at upper KS2, and I'm overjoyed that my new book ‘Saving Anwen’ is included! Find out more here: collins.co.uk/collections/...

Will review properly the other side of school holiday madness but just popped on to say absolutely love @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social book We Are Family. Emotional rollercoaster of a poetry novel. Funny and moving…love that poetry novels like one this are being firmly placed on the book shelf map 😍

📣BOOK NEWS📣 My next book ‘Saving Anwen’ publishes in just two weeks as part of #BigCatReadOn! Set children up for a lifelong love of reading with new chapter books from Collins Big Cat, perfect for use in the classroom and at home 📚 Find out more here: collins.co.uk/collections/...

Had a lovely time in Trafford recently, performing #WeAreFamily! Big thanks to Trafford Libraries for making it happen 😊

Had an amazing time this afternoon! Huge thanks to everyone who came to watch #wearefamily, and a huge thanks to the theatre staff (Gaynor, Gwyneth and Barry) at Theatr Twm O'r Nant in Denbigh! ☺️👏

Had a wonderful time today performing my stage adaptation of #WeAreFamily at Old Trafford Library and Sale Library! 🥳 Huge thank you to Trafford Libraries for all their support and to everyone who came down 👏 Next stop... Theatr Twm O'r Nant, Denbigh! 🤩

My debut poetry collection, We Are Family: Six Kids and Super-Dad, has just been shortlisted for the 2025 Stockport Children's Book Awards! 🤩🥳👌

Honoured to have TWO titles on the longlist for the '25 #clfbookawards! #AlfieandtheThief and #WeAreFamily! 🤯 Congrats to the other titles and huge shout out to @ChristiGabbitas and all the work she and the fab people at @ChildrensLFests do to champion children from disadvantaged backgrounds ❤️

Our 2-year-old German Shepherd, Luna, has really got the whole 'cushion-bed' thing confused! Lol 🤣🤣

A bestseller!? Well, this is lovey to see! Spooky ghost stories about OCD with LGBTQ+ rep aren’t just for Halloween! #BookSky #KidLit #PrimaryEduSky #EduSky

Love #MichaelSheen! What a guy! 🥰

Here are some lovely book publishing peeps you might like... 😀 go.bsky.app/kRfNFe

Here's part 2 of my end of year blog, which includes: - reaching 3.5k live audience members - starting my own YouTube channel, and - getting my debut children's poetry collection featured in The Daily Express 🤩! oliver-sykes.com/blog/oliver-... #Edusky #teachers #poets #theatre #performance

One doesn't often see a poem in praise of school caretakers, so I wrote one. Free on my website - 'THE CARETAKER': www.joshuaseigal.co.uk/the-caretaker #EduSky #BookSky #Kidlit

Here's my puffin poem as an animation - you'll find him and other poems by me and lots more kids' poets, poetry lessons, interviews with authors, book reviews etc on my website: www.poetryroundabout.com #kidlit #kidlitcommunity #Edusky youtu.be/p0dao3PqRBA

A wonderful afternoon running a training session for teachers, about how to use poetry in the classroom. Get in touch if you’d like something similar, email is on my website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk #EduSky #BookSky #poetry #teachers

New funny poem for kids: "Skylar the Sculptor" https://buff.ly/3BLPOY1 #foodart #foodpoem #cheese #sculpture #childrenspoetry #poetry4kids

Can't wait to buy a copy of #SkySurfing when it's available! It sounds amazing! 👌

For anyone who wants to know what I've been up to for the past year, here's part 1/2 of my end of year blog: oliver-sykes.com/blog/oliver-... #Edusky #teachers #poets #theatre #performance

I wrote an article in which I heavily critique one of my own poems. It's about 'success', and what it means to succeed. Some of you might find it interesting: joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2025/01/defy... @irasocol.bsky.social @alfiekohn.bsky.social @covingtonedu.bsky.social #EduSky #psychology

I'm now into my fifth year of writing for @neunion.bsky.social's Educate magazine. It's something I enjoy doing and I'm delighted to have had over 30 articles published about the importance of reading. Hopefully, they've been useful. They can all be accessed for free here: neu.org.uk/latest/union...

TEACHERS! #edusky This one's called 'The Haircut' 🤦‍♂️ Using the prompt: 'Things that can go wrong at home', I've found it to be a really fun way to get kids to use their own lives as inspiration for writing and sharing their own stories and poems - enjoy 😊 Illustration: Ian Morris

Best poetic moment of 2024. youtu.be/2TK2tOqv94M?...

#edusky Hello, teachers! Bit late to the party - I'm newly arrived from Twitter. I'm a children's author and poet, and will be posting lots of #poetry and #kidlit things. My writing is mostly inspired (in some way or other) by my rough, tough but happy childhood! 😊 Illustration: Ian Morris

Hello all! #poetry #kidlit I'm Oliver, children's author and poet, nice to meet you all! 😊 Here's a performance of one of my poems, taken from my debut collection: youtu.be/POSiLpci9ls?...