Duck & Bear Episode 3
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Killing Darlings - Duck makes some brutal decisions, is her book being trimmed down, or cut to pieces? Click on the image to read Ep...
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Network News Overview
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by Gill James This week we’re taking a bit of an overview of some of the activities that happen in the networks. Note how much food i...
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Writing is Re-writing
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By Rosemary Bird-Hawkins Why re-write? I often tell my creative writing students that the secret to writing is re-writing. It’s a ph...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 28th May
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It's been fun, fun, fun in the sun (sun, sun) this bank holiday weekend, so let's keep the vibe going here on the Blog Break with ...
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David Almond: the freedom of knowing your limitations
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Photo Credit: Donna-Lisa Healy Rowena House asked for some writing advice from David Almond , the Carnegie, Whitbread and Hans Christ...
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The Chalkface Challenge: The Pilot
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THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED FOR ENTRIES. There are some new competition judges on the block and they know what they like. They'r...
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A Blissful State
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It's been a totally manic seven days - we are in the blissful state of having more than enough material. Thank you to everyone who'...
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Dave Cousins’ Journey to the Crystal Kite
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The SCBWI Crystal Kite Awards recognise great books from the 70 SCBWI regions around the world. Each regional chapter is assigned to one o...
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Why You Should Keep At It and Take Your Chances.
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Louise Kelly, Jane Heinrichs and Veronica Cossanteli stand up please! Hip Hip and Hip Hooray for you all and for Never Giving Up!
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FEATURED ILLUSTRATOR - Amber Hsu
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Amber Hsu is a Chinese-born, US-raised, UK-based artist, illustrator and writer and is this month's Featured Illustrator . See Amber...
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Network News: Welcome to the new South East Scotland Network
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Edinburgh A new Local Network Group is being formed by M. Louise Kelly and Sheila Averbuch - SCBWI BI South East Scotland. The group...
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Network News: South East Spotlight on Southampton
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Southampton Common It's all happening with SCBWI in Southampton... We had our first SCBWI Southampton Goal Setting Supper on Th...
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Tiaras, shamanic journeys and cake cake cake… the SCBWI Retreat at Dunford House
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What do you get when you put twenty-nine writers plus one editor in a beautiful house in the Sussex countryside, feed them with slap-up meal...
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Coping With Rejection
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By Elizabeth Dale You’ve done it! You’ve written your book, you’ve edited it over and over, you’ve given it to friends and fellow wise ...
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Undiscovered Voices: Changing Lives
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By Nicky Schmidt One of the “Big Events” on the SCBWI-BI calendar is the biennial Undiscovered Voices competition. Offering unpublish...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 21st May
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It started as a bit of a slow week in the SCBWI blogosphere, with a lot of people clearly still recovering from the SCBWI retreat! Luckily...
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Ask A Publisher - Q&A with Sara O'Connor, Editorial Director at Hot Key Books
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Welcome to our regular Ask A Publisher feature, hosted by Sara O'Connor , Editorial Director, Print and Digital at Hot Key Books . T...
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Social Sheila Video: get your head around hashtags
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By Sheila Averbuch If you're new to Twitter , hashtags (the # symbols) can be one of the most off-putting idiosyncracies. But once ...
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Die Hard meets Rainbow Magic for a Young Adult Audience
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Ok, the title of this post has nothing to do with what's coming up, but did it get your attention? Rebecca Frazer from Orchard Books...
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What Are They Drinking in the North East?
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Something is afoot up North - this week we have inspirational stories from Kate Pankhurst and Rebecca Colby and Sam Zuppardi and gue...
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What I did last summer - The Highlights Foundation Advanced Illustrators Workshop
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The annual series of Highlights Foundation workshops for children's writers and illustrators takes place amongst rural scenery in Hone...
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Network News: Central East
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By Gill James SCBWI British Isles Central East Region covers: Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfo...
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Catching a publisher’s eye; hopeless task or hope for the future?
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Mr Stink by David Walliams What makes an exciting first chapter, and what instantly turns us off? Following on from Alex English's...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 14th May
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It's going to be a slightly truncated Blog Break this week, as I've just come back from the SCBWI retreat and my brain is a bit fr...
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The Long Road to Discovery: The successes and failures of one Undiscovered Voices writer
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by Sara Grant Our second guest blogger, Sara Grant , founder of Undiscovered Voices and author of Dark Parties , Half Live s and the Mag...
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Head Spaces & Time Shares
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I’m away again, Paris one week and SCBWI Writers' retreat at Dunford House the next - what a gadabout I am! This weekend I'm plann...
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SCBWI Celebrates TWO Branford Boase Shortlisters, Double Deals and Exhibitions Large and Small.
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The Branford Boase Award is a unique prize dedicated to rewarding excellence for first time novelists AND their editors. So I’m doubly del...
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The Foyles launch of Nobrow's new imprint Flying Eye
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Last week several SCBWI members, authors and illustrators, went to the official launch at Foyles, London, of the new children's book i...
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Network News: The Central West
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by Julienne Durber Julienne Durber Juliet Clare Bell Based in Birmingham, the Central West group was run for many years by Donna ...
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Ask an Agent - with Gemma Cooper and Molly Ker Hawn, from the Bent Agency
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Are you looking for a query critique from those in the know? Or do you have a question you've always wanted to ask an agent? Each mont...
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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 7th May
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Tuesday seems to have come around faster than ever this week, thanks to the bank holiday weekend. So pull up a chair, a cup of tea and a b...
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Rediscovered Voices
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by K.M. Lockwood As part of our Undiscovered Voices theme, K.M. Lockwood offers some points about getting voices into your work, and so...
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Killer First Lines
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By Alex English Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve Whether your first line comes to you in a flash or you slave over it for hours, we al...
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May is Undiscovered Voices Month
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So May is Undiscovered Voices month on Words & Pictures . Undiscovered Voices is the competition for SCBWI writers and illustrators...
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Hip Hip Hooray for a Winner, a Wonderful Deal and a Write Now Longlisting!
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Andrew Weale @andrewweale Congratulations Andrew Weale , Clare Furniss and Martin Stewart! This week I go undercover to bring y...
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Duck & Bear Episode 2
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It's rolling! Episode 2 of Amanda Lillywhite's exciting tale of Duck and Bear is now online. Will Duck complete her edits and fi...
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Network News Central North
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By Liz Miller Here in Central North we are a welcoming group of published and pre-published writers and illustrators of everything ...
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Undiscovered Stories
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b y Rosemary Bird-Hawkins Humans are a story telling species. We fill our lives with stories and it is perhaps the writer’s gift to b...
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