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Excellent update on all things @uvcompetition.bsky.social from committee deputy chair @maggiewomersley.bsky.social in the latest issue of @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Words and Pictures including: 👉 Meet the judges 👉 Masterclass details 👉 Info on limited FREE places tinyurl.com/nhcj48y4 #UV26

“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...

It's now publicly live. So if you're a writer of any kind and are not a right wing loony, please sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Straight/cis friends - the best time to actually get your skin in the game might have been in the past, but the second best time is now.

And uplifting post for my #EduSky and #EduSkayAU friends >> www.businessinsider.com/teens-win-ea...

Orwell’s fairy tale tells the story of a farm’s rebellion against the tyranny of humans only to find themselves under a new totalitarian regime. It lays out the use of fear, propaganda, lies, and even hope as tools of oppression. Read about tyranny, it is critical now more than ever. #booksky

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

So it's been a bit of a binbag of a week... BUT "Fight Like A Girl 2", feminist anthology featuring three trans authors, is a finalist in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards announced this evening, and I'm delighted for all my authors. You deserve this, all of you ♡ wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...

Go me and my skills. I’ve made a #UKKidLit starter pack for anyone looking to find the kids book chat community on here. Hope it helps. #KidsBooks #KidLitUK #BookChat go.bsky.app/LEQd4SR

Authors, illustrators, screenwriters, poets etc. Please sign this open letter regarding the recent UK Supreme Court judgement on trans peoples’ rights to legal recognition. 🏳️‍⚧️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community. And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account. goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...

Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.

I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us. We have to save us. And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators

And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here. So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.

Such a great initiative! I would give my OWN books to my 10 year old self – I loved #historicalbooks, #fantasy and #adventurestories and mine are all three! I wrote them for my 10 year old self AND my own kids because books like these with children of colour did not exist for far too long. #kidlituk

We see you. We stand with you.

It’s dangerous to think that what happens across the ocean can’t happen here. It can. It does. It has already started.

A vacancy has recently opened up at the Big Green Bookshop for a new customer. The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books. Please email [email protected] with a list of books you'd like to buy. The position is available straight away.

Illustrators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please answer this question honestly & share. If you worked full time for a year on making a graphic novel of 200 pages, what fee would you expect to be paid for the job?

In June @Writers_Artists will publish my first non-fiction book – THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. For details & to pre-order at a 10% discount: UK: bloomsbury.com/uk/ultimate-gu… US: bloomsbury.com/us/ultimate-gu���

Hello Bluesky! I’m a neurodivergent UK children’s author who thinks and talks too much and writes a mix of picture books, poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Looking forward to connecting with people who make and love books! #KidsBooksUK

Same with Irish surnames that have an apostrophe

UPDATED: My Bluesky Starter Thread. Newest version can always be accessed via debbieohi.link/starter (link in my profile bio, too). Feel free to share with anyone who needs it! My take on social media My Bluesky lists Beginner tips Starter thread for educators & librarians cont'd 👇🏼

Hey, freelancers: it's time to raise your rates for 2024. You've gained another year of experience and you deserve to be paid for it.

Hello. @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social has sent me some dosh, so I can send someone on Bluesky, the book of their choice. It's "Buy a Stranger aBook" evening, so if there's a book you want, get i touch! www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

Help! Trying to remember the title of a children’s book I read back in the day. It involves kids on holiday in big old house, legends of dragons (or “worms”), finding old midwinter Mummers play costumes, and eventually the dragon revealed as an ancient earthwork in the landscape by snow. Any ideas?

And this one. (I will always cry over this song. Always.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8en...

@nosycrow.bsky.social is here.....!!!!! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

Ten years ago, World Fantasy Con was held at a wheelchair-inaccessible hotel in Brighton, UK. So I couldn't attend. In 2025, World Fantasy Con will return to this hotel, the Doubletree by Hilton Metropole in Brighton, UK. It's still inaccessible.

If you are still looking for a unique gift for the holiday season, then perhaps one of my dataviz / data art Giclee prints might be of interest ^_^ From visualizing π, to revealing cultural constellation diversity, star maps, butterflies, spirographs & more ✨ 👉 shop.visualcinnamon.com

I’m off to a doctors appt and after last night we had only 1 customer (a normal Fri would bring in €250-500) So I’m calling it and closing the rest of the day. There’s no rent relief for fascist riots so if you’re wisely staying home maybe consider littledeercomics.ie

Wonderful National Book Awards speech by Oprah Winfrey youtu.be/YOQjU59punY?...

The final scientist featured in the Spotlight Science series with Enable Science is Amie Sankoh. She researches communication between plant cells to tackle viral plant diseases. See and download the full series of posters here: bit.ly/SpotlightSci

I love this! Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma has developed a way to 3D print with wool, esp coarse European wool that isn't good for anything else. The resulting items or blocks could be used as insulation or to make furniture instead of synthetic materials. www.dezeen.com/2023/11/17/c...

Fascinating article, revealing the cost of "free" when it comes to messaging.

My first post ✨ Here are the rainbow science pin badges I design. I donate all the profit to the AKT, who help homeless LGBTQ+ people. So far the pins have raised £13,492. Please share ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🩵🤍🩷 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

This is one of the most beautiful and moving music interviews I’ve read. I don’t know how to describe how it touched me, but it was just a really beautifully honest look at the relationship between art and artist

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Fancy a free writer's retreat in Dorset with a fee plus travel? The Bridport Prize have got 2 on offer for working class and/ or LGBTQIA+ writers, unpublished & self published authors or published writers of individual stories. Please share - closing date is 13th!! More details on their website.

What is Steve? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6733...

#kidlit friends, if like me you're enjoying the current BBC #Shakespeare season, a prompt that my #picturebook with Jane Sutcliffe 'Wills Words' is still available on order & from Charlesbridge in the US. The Guardian ran a showcase when it was released: www.theguardian.com/childrens-bo... #kidlitUK

It’s time! The Bert's Books Secret Santa. Sign up by 30th November, and pick a book you'd like to gift to someone else. I'll work out the best person to send that book to - and in return you'll get a book to unwrap too! bertsbooks.co.uk/secret-santa

Happy #KidlitArtPostcard day! My name is Wakou Okada, and I am a book illustrator based in Japan. I like fantasy and enjoy telling stories with my art. I’m currently looking for work, especially opportunities for kidlit! website: www.w-okada.com mail: [email protected] #kidlitart #illustration

It's that time of year for campfires! Anybody make s'mores yet?? 🔥 Campfire washi tape and stationery set in my shop ~ breelundberg.bigcartel.com