I’m super super excited to announce that I’ll be a guest judge of the 2024 Faber Children's FAB prize!! A competition dedicated to platforming YA and Children story writers and illustrators of colour. I’m so excited man. Good luck to all applicants :)

🔗fabprize.org

Entries will be judged by the FAB Prize team, Leah Thaxton, Davinia Andrew-Lynch, Emma Eldridge and Ama Badu. This year’s guest judges include award-winning Times journalist Lucy Bannerman and book influencer john-paul is writing🫧
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Calling all aspiring authors and illustrators of colour . . . the FAB Prize 2024 is open for entries!🖊️📚🖌️

To enter and find out more: fabprize.org

⁦Emma Carroll 🇺🇦⁩ - ahem, never miss a photo opportunity for you, Emma! #bologna #TheHoudiniInheritance #BookoftheFair #Dogman ❤️EmmaCarroll

'When Black Britons finally find a mountain worthy of chipping the beautiful faces of our greats onto it, our own Mount Rushmore if you may, Benjamin’s face will be there.'

Benjamin Obadiah Zephaniah, Rest in Power & Poetry.

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The deadline for applications is Sunday 15th of October.

To find out more and to apply, click here: faber.co.uk/careers/childr…

We're hiring!

Faber is looking for an assistant to support the Children's Creative Team.

Working across editorial and design, this is a fantastic introduction to the day to day running of the children's team.

Could it be you?

Wondering if Twitter can help…. Im trying to track down someone whose maiden name would have been Donna Morgan, daughter of Sandy Morgan. If you know her will you pass this message on?

Gorgeous meal with the ever-wonderful ⁦Francesca Simon⁩ to celebrate her latest absolute masterpiece…. Too soon to tell you more than Breathtaking! ….Here is our host Matt Lovell ⁦The Oystermen⁩. Divine food can’t recommend highly enough 🎉

#SistemaPickUpUK Who doesn’t love a bit of holiday litter picking?

Hello beautiful people! And hello to the tenacious and brilliant #NAFO community! We are a new NGO with the goal of insulating #Ukraine . Our current mission is to replace 6,000 broken windows in the city of #Izyum 1/n 🧵

Just been reading about this incredible invention: just 15 mins needed to build this new window - and all the brainchild of a student (who paused his studies to just get on with it)

Alert to unpublished writers and illustrators of colour! Deadline approaching. We love this prize and commission so many writers and illustrators out of it; many more get agents and book deals elsewhere. Please do take a chance and apply. (And RT)

Only one more month to enter! We love this prize and commission so many writers and illustrators out of it; many more get agents and book deals elsewhere. In case you were in any doubt, Childrens is THE bit of the publishing business to get into, so please apply! (And RT)

My massive face.

This, for me, brings a sense of calm. Because now I can relax into a role that sat on the horizon like the promised land from the very beginning. With thanks to Faber Books and Faber Children's. I have love for this company at every level.

Meanwhile…. ‘Oh hi Leah, I’m having dinner tonight with Wes Anderson, have you got any books I can give him…’
All very grounding…
#Only @faber

Still beaming from my prize win, thank you everyone for all your good wishes, the Branford Boase Award team and fabulous judges and especially you, dream author Christine Marina Pillainayagam who deserve congrats galore. (Photo credit Adrian Pope). Faber Books

👏Author Christine Marina Pillainayagam & editor Leah Thaxton of Faber Children's win the 2023 #BranfordBoase Award for her debut YA novel, Ellie Pillai is Brown! 🎉
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Here's a Q&A with Christine Pillainayagam - and a song she wrote for the novel: readingzone.com/authors/christ…

A scene from Treekeepers by Kieran Larwood featuring Myrtle the Wyvern, as imagined by the 7yo.
Left to right: Embla, Lug, Fishbone, Liska and Thresher.

ah look at this absolute BEAUTY! Go Dave, conquer more hearts.....! ❤️❤️❤️