Featured Illustrator: Jion Sheibani 00:00 This month Words and Pictures welcomes a new artist Jion Sheibani as Featured Illustrator. With experience of living in both the UK an... 11 Comments Read
Judy Waite: 'Growing Pains, Writing for Young Adults' Masterclass, 8 March 2014 02:00Alison Smith @judywaite2 Judy Waite is an award-winning author of over forty novels for children and young adults. Her work ranges thr... 2 Comments Read
Agent Confidential: Sallyanne Sweeney 02:00 Name: Sallyanne Sweeney AKA: SAS Agency: Mulcahy Associates 13 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 25th February 02:30 Numbers seem to be a big theme in the world of SCBWI blogging this week, whether it's: 1) how many books you've sold 2) how many... 2 Comments Read
Shaping an MA: an interview with Julia Green 02:00Eden Endfield @JGreenauthor The Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People has been a great success, with many distinctive published writ... 4 Comments Read
If Only W&P Could Talk... 15:19 The title nicked and bodged from James Herriot's 1973 classic is not such a vain hope, oh no. We're running with the marvellous S... 3 Comments Read
A Debut Historical Writer Joins the Literary Scene! 02:00 This week we are recognising the achievements of SCBWI member, Paula Warrington, and hear how she is inspiring others to strive for thei... 5 Comments Read
Pop Ups: Part One 11:48 Ed's note: A post from SCBWI BI's Illustrators' blog 2010, very much worth rerunning here as a prelude to Trish Phillips ... 0 Comments Read
When Words Get Together 02:00 Hyphenated words / hyphenated-words / hyphenatedwords Catriona Tippin aka @ProofReadingTip gives us the low-down... 6 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 18th February 02:30 Turned out nice again, hasn't it? Er, no. Not at all. So my suggestion is to stay inside (ideally in a boat) and enjoy the best of t... 5 Comments Read
Sarah Lean on Voice 02:00Charlotte Comely @SarahLean1 Warm, friendly and amazingly down to earth were the comments from students after Sarah Lean came to giv... 3 Comments Read
Falling in Love Again... 13:45 Next month is the submission window for the SCBWI Work in Progress Grants and in my Internet meandering this morning I came across an int... 6 Comments Read
Nick Cook rides the clouds to success 02:00 @CloudRiders Hearts, flowers and chocolates galore go to SCBWI debut author Nick Cook this week, as we celebrate his deal with Three Ha... 5 Comments Read
Quickfire Illustrators 09:00 Sally Kindberg What's the one thing that illustrators have in common? With all the variety of techniques and approaches we have, wha... 4 Comments Read
More than words on a page 02:00 Nicky Schmidt Morag and Nicky Everyone keeps reminding us; writing is tough, as is getting published. For those writing short stories... 7 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 11th February 02:30 It's nice to emerge from my hermit hut for a quick blog-reading break, as I've had my head down writing this last week. It's k... 1 Comments Read
With a Passion 02:00 During February, the retailers encourage us to think of passion in its later romantic definition. But before it was borrowed, it had... 3 Comments Read
In Praise of TV 18:44 Yesterday was National Libraries Day and confession time, I realised that so far this year I have not read a single book cover to cover a... 0 Comments Read
Agent Party Success Story! 02:00 Pop those corks, people! Today we are celebrating not just one person's great news but the wonderful way that SCBWI can help you i... 9 Comments Read
Picture Book Basics - Graphic Design 20:53 After the artwork is created the next stage to consider is the text and the design layout. For a commissioned title this might all be hand... 17 Comments Read
Network News: Mixed-genre critiquing in the North-West 02:30By Gill James The events room at Waterstone’s is even more mysterious than usual. There’s just about enough room to set out a long table... 0 Comments Read
The Yuk Factor 02:00 By Celia J Anderson Let me explain. The Yuk Factor is a term we use in my Year Five and Six reading groups for any sort of writing that... 5 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 4th February 02:30 I'm sure you've been on tenterhooks since last week, wondering what happened to that enormous boil on Maureen Lynas's bum? Wel... 9 Comments Read
Trust Your Subconscious by Beverley Birch 02:00 Try a web search on ‘subconscious mind’. You’ll find a surfeit: definitions, exploring it, connecting subconscious and conscious to expand... 18 Comments Read
In the flow... 14:04 Welcome to February and I think we're in the flow. There's been talk about voice in the SCBWI ether over the last week or so. We... 1 Comments Read
Let's celebrate with The Nowhere Box and a Perfect Prig! 02:00 This week, as we welcome in the Chinese Year of the Horse, we take a pause in our feasting to toast two debut picture book author-illust... 3 Comments Read