Duck & Bear Episode 3 08:29 Killing Darlings - Duck makes some brutal decisions, is her book being trimmed down, or cut to pieces? Click on the image to read Ep... 9 Comments Read
Network News Overview 00:30by 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... 0 Comments Read
Writing is Re-writing 02:00 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... 10 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 28th May 02:30 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 ... 12 Comments Read
David Almond: the freedom of knowing your limitations 02:00 Photo Credit: Donna-Lisa Healy Rowena House asked for some writing advice from David Almond , the Carnegie, Whitbread and Hans Christ... 20 Comments Read
The Chalkface Challenge: The Pilot 02:30THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED FOR ENTRIES. There are some new competition judges on the block and they know what they like. They'r... 25 Comments Read
A Blissful State 02:30 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'... 0 Comments Read
Dave Cousins’ Journey to the Crystal Kite 01:30 The SCBWI Crystal Kite Awards recognise great books from the 70 SCBWI regions around the world. Each regional chapter is assigned to one o... 5 Comments Read
Why You Should Keep At It and Take Your Chances. 02:00 Louise Kelly, Jane Heinrichs and Veronica Cossanteli stand up please! Hip Hip and Hip Hooray for you all and for Never Giving Up! 4 Comments Read
FEATURED ILLUSTRATOR - Amber Hsu 01:44 Amber Hsu is a Chinese-born, US-raised, UK-based artist, illustrator and writer and is this month's Featured Illustrator . See Amber... 17 Comments Read
Network News: Welcome to the new South East Scotland Network 02:30 Edinburgh A new Local Network Group is being formed by M. Louise Kelly and Sheila Averbuch - SCBWI BI South East Scotland. The group... 4 Comments Read
Network News: South East Spotlight on Southampton 02:00 Southampton Common It's all happening with SCBWI in Southampton... We had our first SCBWI Southampton Goal Setting Supper on Th... 0 Comments Read
Tiaras, shamanic journeys and cake cake cake… the SCBWI Retreat at Dunford House 17:30What 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... 16 Comments Read
Coping With Rejection 02:00 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 ... 14 Comments Read
Undiscovered Voices: Changing Lives 02:00 By Nicky Schmidt One of the “Big Events” on the SCBWI-BI calendar is the biennial Undiscovered Voices competition. Offering unpublish... 11 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 21st May 02:30 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... 3 Comments Read
Ask A Publisher - Q&A with Sara O'Connor, Editorial Director at Hot Key Books 02:00 Welcome to our regular Ask A Publisher feature, hosted by Sara O'Connor , Editorial Director, Print and Digital at Hot Key Books . T... 18 Comments Read
Social Sheila Video: get your head around hashtags 02:00By Sheila Averbuch If you're new to Twitter , hashtags (the # symbols) can be one of the most off-putting idiosyncracies. But once ... 6 Comments Read
Die Hard meets Rainbow Magic for a Young Adult Audience 01:50 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... 4 Comments Read
What Are They Drinking in the North East? 02:00 Something is afoot up North - this week we have inspirational stories from Kate Pankhurst and Rebecca Colby and Sam Zuppardi and gue... 2 Comments Read
What I did last summer - The Highlights Foundation Advanced Illustrators Workshop 02:00 The annual series of Highlights Foundation workshops for children's writers and illustrators takes place amongst rural scenery in Hone... 3 Comments Read
Network News: Central East 00:30By Gill James SCBWI British Isles Central East Region covers: Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfo... 2 Comments Read
Catching a publisher’s eye; hopeless task or hope for the future? 02:00 Mr Stink by David Walliams What makes an exciting first chapter, and what instantly turns us off? Following on from Alex English's... 13 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 14th May 02:30 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... 3 Comments Read
The Long Road to Discovery: The successes and failures of one Undiscovered Voices writer 02:00by Sara Grant Our second guest blogger, Sara Grant , founder of Undiscovered Voices and author of Dark Parties , Half Live s and the Mag... 10 Comments Read
Head Spaces & Time Shares 02:00 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... 5 Comments Read
SCBWI Celebrates TWO Branford Boase Shortlisters, Double Deals and Exhibitions Large and Small. 02:00The Branford Boase Award is a unique prize dedicated to rewarding excellence for first time novelists AND their editors. So I’m doubly del... 8 Comments Read
The Foyles launch of Nobrow's new imprint Flying Eye 02:00 Last week several SCBWI members, authors and illustrators, went to the official launch at Foyles, London, of the new children's book i... 1 Comments Read
Network News: The Central West 00:30by Julienne Durber Julienne Durber Juliet Clare Bell Based in Birmingham, the Central West group was run for many years by Donna ... 2 Comments Read
Ask an Agent - with Gemma Cooper and Molly Ker Hawn, from the Bent Agency 02:00 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... 16 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 7th May 02:30 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... 4 Comments Read
Rediscovered Voices 02:00by K.M. Lockwood As part of our Undiscovered Voices theme, K.M. Lockwood offers some points about getting voices into your work, and so... 6 Comments Read
Killer First Lines 02:00By 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... 5 Comments Read
May is Undiscovered Voices Month 02:00 So May is Undiscovered Voices month on Words & Pictures . Undiscovered Voices is the competition for SCBWI writers and illustrators... 0 Comments Read
Hip Hip Hooray for a Winner, a Wonderful Deal and a Write Now Longlisting! 02:00 Andrew Weale @andrewweale Congratulations Andrew Weale , Clare Furniss and Martin Stewart! This week I go undercover to bring y... 5 Comments Read
Duck & Bear Episode 2 02:00 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... 14 Comments Read
Network News Central North 00:30 By Liz Miller Here in Central North we are a welcoming group of published and pre-published writers and illustrators of everything ... 6 Comments Read
Undiscovered Stories 02:00 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... 4 Comments Read