🥳🎉🥂Delighted to be on this list with my middle grade novel! Congratulations to all the other listees - there are some cracking titles on there - and thanks to the Ascent Novel Prize and all the readers /judges for running this exciting new kidlit competition! 🤩
Claire Lewis
@clairelewiswrites.bsky.social
Hi! I write & illustrate PBs/poems/MG & work for @thebookery.bsky.social. Words/pics in The Toy, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Little Thoughts Press & Tyger Tyger. Debut PB:The Go Away Rain Dance, HB Publishing House https://linktr.ee/claire_f_lewis
My debut picture book The Go Away Rain Dance is on tour with Hygge Book Tours tomorrow! 🥳 Ziggi has the zoomies with the excitement of it all! 🐾🐶☔ @hyggebooktours.bsky.social
The Go Away Rain Dance is out today and available from www.hbpublishinghouse.co.uk/shop - or use the special publication day QR code below to get 50p off! #hbpublishinghouse
www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2... Cover reveal for my debut picture book The Go Away Rain Dance out with HB Publishing House on 25th May! ☔🌧️🐶🐾
Highlights = @claire_f_lewis
See Instagram 'Highlights' highlights from Claire Lewis (@claire_f_lewis)
instagram.com
This is a great interview - full of gems - I really enjoyed reading it! 🤩
Bath Children’s Novel Award Winner Melanie Whitmarsh describes the moment she found out, shares her writing journey, and explains how the Junior Judges are shaping her final edits. bathnovelaward.co.uk/interview-me...
Ziggi is fast asleep, waiting to leap into action in my debut picture book, The Go Away Rain Dance, out next Spring with HB Publishing. Watch this space for more updates and a cover reveal in the New Year!
I'm absolutely delighted that my picture book text 'The Dream-Travellers' was awarded second place in the Yeovil Literary Prize Children's & Young Adult Novel category and my middle grade novel 'The Groucher' reached the shortlist! 🧵⬇️
Woohoo! 🎉 Very chuffed indeed to have two stories on the shortlist of the Yeovil Literary Prize in the Children's and Young Adult category, alongside lots of great-sounding titles! 😀🥳🤞 #yeovilliteraryfestival
Delighted to have been longlisted twice today in the Yeovil Literary Prize Children's and Young Adult Novel category! 😀🥳🎉 A big thank you to Yeovil Community Arts Association for providing this great opportunity for writers ✍️ #yeovilliteraryprize
Introducing Honey and Jimmy, the mischievous stars of a fun new picture book by Anne and @brianmosespoet.bsky.social - together these playful canine pals try their best to save the planet and show young readers how they can help the environment! 🐾🌿 🧵⬇️
This is such a brilliant opportunity! If you're a picture book author looking to develop your craft, don't miss it! (applications close on Friday 11th April)
Devon people, see you at @thebookery.bsky.social today at 11! ✍️🐭✍️🐭 Storytime, drawing, book signing. And we’d love to see you sketchbook if you bring it along!
This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...
AI and copyright - blog - Chris Haughton - AI and copyright
The blog of designer and author Chris Haughton. Chris was listed in Time magazine's DESIGN 100 for his fair trade design work for PEOPLE TREE.
chrishaughton.com
Pardon my screenshot, but I agree that this should be read. It's a rough one to read, but insanely informative and addresses the horrific reality that AI direction is headed. Near the bottom does have this, but I implore you to read the meat of this post.
This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...
Anyone in the mood for some ice-skating? ⛸️❄️🏔️ With thanks to @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social for the lovely atmospheric graphic!
#LyricalLanguageLab #poetrycontest SECOND PLACE: "The Night Skaters" by Claire Lewis @clairelewiswrites.bsky.social See what the judges say about the winner here: www.reneelatulippe.com/winners-wint...
#LyricalLanguageLab #poetrycontest FIRST PLACE: "Silent Snow" by Pamela Moritz See what the judges have to say about the winning poem here: www.reneelatulippe.com/winners-wint...
Meet Nora Ho, Children's Picture Book Author, in verse. She shares a love of the California Redwoods featuring a daring kitten who seeks the perfect home. Meeting forest inhabitants in their homes proves challenging for a little barn kitten. "A Place Called Home" ages 3-6 Amazon. noraghoauthor.com
Nora G. Ho – Children's Book Author
The official site of Nora G. Ho – children's book author. My debut animal children's book about kittens, diversity, and the environment is coming soon!
noraghoauthor.com
A really interesting blog post about Voice and POV - well worth reading! 👀⬇️
The Intersection of Voice and POV The easiest way to think about POV is as a lens that you hand the reader and say, "here, you will now be viewing the world through this slightly warped piece of glass." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/v... #writingcommunity #booksky
Sorry to keep posting about this, but...I was awarded 2nd place for my poem 'Night Skaters' & I'm absolutely delighted! Congrats to all for their brilliant poems, & huge thanks to @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social, Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, @suzylevinson.bsky.social & Lou Piccolo for hosting & judging!
The names and poems of the winners and honorable mentions for @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social's 1st Annual Rhyming Poetry Contest will be revealed on December 17 at www.reneelatulippe.com/winners-gallery! 🤞
Hooray! My poem is on the shortlist of @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social's 1st Annual Rhyming Poetry Contest! I'm over the moon!!😊🥳🎉
Woohoo! My poem made the longlist!! 🥳🎉😊 Thank you @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social and the judges for hosting this lovely wintry contest!
Delighted to make the Searchlight #picturebook longlist again! 🥳🎉 Congratulations to all the other longlistees, and well done to everyone who entered for putting your work out there. Huge thanks as ever to all the incredible readers, and to Kim for organising!👏🏻
It’s the moment our entrants have been waiting for - the longlist announcement! 🥳🍾 Congratulations to everyone who entered. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to read your writing. See our website for details. www.searchlightawards.co.uk/news/
Congratulations to all the longlistees and to everyone who put their words out there by entering in the first place! 👏👏👏
It’s the moment our entrants have been waiting for - the longlist announcement! 🥳🍾 Congratulations to everyone who entered. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to read your writing. See our website for details. www.searchlightawards.co.uk/news/
I can't wait to read this one from @nadineholland.bsky.social and #WennyStephanie - it looks fab! 🤩
BOOK NEWS! Delighted to be able to share with you that Mina the Mighty (shortlisted in our 2022 Best Picture Book Text competition) will be published in March. It was an absolute favourite with our readers. So happy for @nadineholland.bsky.social . 🥳👏
Hello all! My name is Sophie and I’m an illustrator from rural Essex rep’d by the Bright agency! I’ve worked with Ladybird, Hachette, Scholastic to name a few! 📚 I love travelling, (I’m often known to fly in and out of a country in a single day) cooking, and tending to my plants!