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 mo... 6 Comments Read
Ten Minute Blog Break - 30th of July 04:00 By Candy Gourlay Acting Nick Cross Clone So Nick Cross has gone off on an amazing adventure holiday but the Ten Minute Blog Break must ... 9 Comments Read
“No holidays, no country.” 02:00Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity , c/o Good Reads. As holidays are pretty much common to all countries and communities in one form or ano... 2 Comments Read
Tap Tap Tappity Tap... 02:00 Can you hear it? The tap tap of keyboards up and down the land honing 4k word opening extracts for Undiscovered Voices . Illustrators , ho... 8 Comments Read
The Chalkface Challenge: The Shadowing Results 01:30 So far no one has told me that the Chalkface Challenge isn't the only kidlit competition wholly judged by children so, so far, we ar... 0 Comments Read
How entering Undiscovered Voices could bag you an agent - even if you don't win... 02:00 This week I'm excited to crack open the bubbly and say a big congratulations to Christina Banach. She truly is a testament to Never ... 9 Comments Read
Duck & Bear Episode 5 08:06It's here! The climax of the tale. Will Duck's epic tale see the light of publication? What has Bear been cooking up? Find out here ... 18 Comments Read
Network News, Featuring Ellen Renner South West Network 00:30 Ellen Renner on SCBWI and the writing life - in conversation with Lesley Moss @Ellen_Renner Ellen Renner has been a South West Netwo... 4 Comments Read
Team Cooper's Agent Retreat - Part Two 02:00 by Gemma Cooper from the Bent Agency, Team Cooper and Benjamin Scott One of the many cakes! Following on from Part One of Team C... 4 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 23rd July 02:30 I'm sure I can't be the only one wilting from all this heat, but our SCBWI bloggers march on regardless. Grab a tall glass of ice... 3 Comments Read
Social Sheila Video: how to claim Google Authorship as a writer 02:00 Have you heard about Google Authorship? It's part of Google Plus , and it's something you need to know about if you are a children... 4 Comments Read
Fresh From the Chalkface 02:00 It's so exciting to publish the results for our first Chalkface Challenge . It's a win-win-win kind of competition. The children... 2 Comments Read
The Chalkface Challenge: The Results 01:30 There were 27 entires for the first Chalkface Challenge - the only writing competition judged entirely by children*. The judges were year ... 16 Comments Read
Sam Hawksmoor and Teri Terry battle it out at the Amazing Book Awards 02:00 And the results? The Gold went to Teri Terry's Slated and the Bronze to Sam Hawksmoor's The Repossession. Has Teri got enough r... 6 Comments Read
FEATURED ILLUSTRATOR - Jane Heinrichs 00:30 Illustrator Jane Heinrichs has crossed the globe from her native Canada to South Africa, but is now firmly based in London. She's al... 7 Comments Read
Network News: Featuring George Kirk, North-West Network 00:30 George Kirk tells us a little about her network and what belonging to a SCBWI network means to her: 2 Comments Read
Team Cooper's Agent Retreat - Part One 02:00 by Gemma Cooper from the Bent Agency and Team Cooper The night the retreat idea was born I have SCBWI totally to blame for my clien... 6 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 16th July 02:30 After me complaining last week that there wasn't enough new blog content, suddenly there's too much! Still, as problems go, it'... 4 Comments Read
Ask A Publisher - Q&A with Sara O'Connor, Editorial Director at Hot Key Books 02:00 Welcome to our monthly Ask A Publisher feature, hosted by Sara O'Connor , Editorial Director, Print and Digital at Hot Key Books . T... 6 Comments Read
A missed celebration, an unchallenging pizza and a load of great stuff in between... 02:00 We've had our 100th W&P day and I didn't spot it! It was Tuesday, 2nd July . For me, Tuesdays are busy work days. I run a cl... 8 Comments Read
Let's drink a toast to Lydia Syson, and celebrate with Gladiators and Summer Explorers 02:00 Don't you just love to sip at something cold and fizzy on a hot day? I'm so excited to crack open the champers and celebrate this ... 2 Comments Read
Picture Book Basics - Understanding Format 00:45 In the first of a series of articles on picture book basics, Words & Pictures Illustration editor John Shelley offers some beginner ... 21 Comments Read
Network News: In the Summer-time 00:30By Gill James School will soon be out. Families will be going away on holiday. It may get too hot to move and you may not want to be indo... 2 Comments Read
Agent Confidential: Julia Churchill 02:00 Name : Julia Churchill AKA : Church Agency : A.M. Heath 6 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 9th July 02:30 If I hadn't realised it was summer from looking out of the window, I'd certainly have noticed from the sudden drop off in new blog... 7 Comments Read
The Buzz in Sunny Norwich (photo update) 20:58 So wanted to post these with my weekly round up on Sunday but the interweb was not playing nicely. Now back home, posting problems resolve... 2 Comments Read
Working with more than one publisher 02:00 It's over to Andrew Weale , author of Spooky Spooky House and Nora , for the third of our guest blogger features. In this post, And... 3 Comments Read
The Buzz in Sunny Norwich 02:30 On one of the best weekends of the year to be in Norwich - guess where I am! I've just had coffee with our excellent illustration fea... 0 Comments Read
Slush Pile Challenge - July 2013 02:00 We are pleased to announce the July 2013 Slush Pile Challenge . 10 Comments Read
Hurrah for the Patron of Reading Denyse Kirkby 02:00 @djkirkby Congratulations and Hip Hip Hooray for Denyse Kirkby, who has been newly appointed as the Patron of Reading for Beacon View Pr... 6 Comments Read
Plaister Press 01:00 Author-Illustrator Gillian McClure has enjoyed a long career working with publishers creating children's books - and then she began pu... 8 Comments Read
Network News: networking in the networks 00:30By Gill James We’ve talked about the types of critique groups that exist in the networks and some of the venues where network mee... 2 Comments Read
Ask an Agent: How Not to Write a Query 02:00 In our Ask an Agent feature this month, agents Molly Ker Hawn and Gemma Cooper from the Bent Agency have written a post about wha... 13 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 2nd July 02:30 As you know, we try to be as diverse and inclusive as we can on Words & Pictures (and in SCBWI more generally), so I'm pleased to... 3 Comments Read
Pictures, Books and Ancient Inspiration 02:00By Philippa R. Francis [K. M. Lockwood] Our ancestors held no prejudice against illustrated books for adults. Art and words were beauti... 2 Comments Read