I have written a short selkie story and my 15yo son has just told me it is beautiful, so I am now a very happy writer💙🦭🌊

Don’t those Chicken Legs scrub up well? 🥹
Honoured to be nominated tonight at the Olivier Awards - wish us luck! 🍀

The House with Chicken Legs nominated in the Best Family Show category. Olivier Awards

Wishing everyone attending a wonderful time at tonight's Olivier Awards, especially Les Enfants Terribles whose incredible The House with Chicken Legs has been nominated for Best Family Show 🎉🛖🐤💀🧙‍♀️✨🎭🎶🥂

And for you teachers out there… #reflectingrealities #RepresentationMatters

For this final (for now) thread on the Ahlbergs I wanted to focus on their daughter, Jessica's and how she inspired some of their most beloved books.

'The Baby's Catalogue' came from her love of pictures in catalogues, even the garden tool section. #ChildrensLiterature (1/5)

I plan to attend the EGM, but in case of spoons issues, I've just proxy voted on these 3 vital resolutions:
- To oppose use of authors' works in AI
- To lobby for fossil fuel divestment in publishing
- For the SoA to make a statement on Gaza, as we did on Ukraine.
Please vote!

It's finally here! Today is publication day for Sister Spirit & I'm so thrilled to finally share my first YA story💃🏾🥳
Sister Spirit is a dark mystery set in a boarding school in Nigeria. 16yr-old adopted Tara has questions, about who she is, where she belongs & why she dreams...

... and in YA Happy Publication to These Stolen Lives Sharada Keats 📕 cover Jamie Gregory 🎉🎉🎉

Happy Publication Day! 🎉🤩
✨The City Beyond the Stars Zohra Nabi illus Tom Clohosy Cole
🕰️Twice Upon A Time Michelle Harrison illus 🇺🇦 Natalie Smillie 🇺🇦
🪶When the Wild Calls Nicola Penfold cover Júlia Moscardó
🌊Tariq and the Drowning City Sarwat Chadda illus Vivienne To

✨TGLA is open for submissions!✨
Each month between the 1st – 21st we are open to submissions from all writers who are under-represented in mainstream publishing. To check eligibility & to submit, click here: thegoodliteraryagency.org/submissions/

Hello, just a reminder that I am going to be speaking at the Northern Lights Writer’s conference in conversation with Ric Michael ⭐️⭐️🇺🇦. For any avid writers in the North,book your tickets.
I’d love to see a wider representation amongst attendees. CIT
#RepresentationMatters

Don't miss out! Submissions for our free Picture Book Foundation Course are OPEN to new Black-British writers and all Jericho Prize alumni. Receive expert guidance from editor Natascha Biebow from Blue Elephant Storyshaping. Apply by midnight on 22 April: lnkfi.re/JerichoPrizeTW

... also Happy Publication to Bringing Back Kay-Kay Dev Kothari cover Tara Anand 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Happy publication beautiful books! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

NEW BOOK! 🥳 So happy to share the cover for ‘The Boy, The Troll & The Chalk’ the brand new picture book written by Anne Booth 💙 and illustrated by me.

This is myself and Anne’s second collaboration after ‘A Shelter For Sadness’

Publishing this June with Templar Books ❤️

Amcan Hammad H Rind حماد حسن رند Sophie Anderson❄️Updates Only❄️ Dyma Hammad yn darllen darn o'i nofel, 'Dead Man's Slap' 🗣👇

Gwyliwch y fideo llawn gan Amcan yma: youtu.be/9MSTMesU0DA

Hammad Rind was tutored by Sophie Anderson.

'Since taking part in Representing Wales, I have found more writing opportunities in both English and Welsh, feel more connected to a supportive community, and gained a better understanding of the publishing industry's intricacies.'

All this week we'll be celebrating our Representing Wales 2023-2024 cohort as their time on our professional development programme draws to a close!

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SoA folk, please read & RT my pinned tweet before casting proxy vote or voting at EGM. What SoA do is decided democratically & I'd love a union that speaks out against human rights violations & breaches of int'l law. These things affect us all, so should always be in our remits.

over a week and still no response from World Book Day UK 📚, but the silence is speaking volumes