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Literary Agent, Lindsey Fraser on Submitting & The Edinburgh Book Fest 2014

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Sarah Broadley www.fraserross.co.uk As a volunteer with SCBWI British Isles, South East Scotland, I was privileged to be given the chan...

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The Debut Author Series: Jeannie Waudby

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The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt Photo by Erica Abi-Karam For many the road to publication is long a...

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Dave Cousins Heather Kilgour KM Lockwood Layn Marlow Nick Cross Sam Zuppardi Ten Minute Blog Break

Ten-Minute Blog Break - 29th July

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Hello there - a new voice on your Ten-Minute Blog break this week: Nick Cross has mysteriously transmogrified into a Yorkshire lass. The b...

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The Debut Author Series: Liz De Jager

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The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt For many the road to publication is long and fraught. For others, a...

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The Chalkface Challenge 2014: The Shadowing Results

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We know who won The Chalkface Challenge 2014 - congratulations again to Jill Atkins for Elrac and the Konkipong Tree but whose entries...

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From Your Editor

Dashing Off

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After last week's excitement of The Chalkface Challenge Winner, Jill Atkins - (do go and read Jill's winning entry - it's wha...

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Blow Your Own Trumpet Celebrations

Blow Your Own Trumpet!

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...or trombone! Last year Nick said.... "We do have the Celebrations column on Words & Pictures, but what about a celebrat...

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Featured Illustrator: Alex Wilson

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This month's Featured Illustrator is Alex Wilson, an up-and-coming young artist with experience of training on both sides of the Atl...

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Network News South East: Volunteering and Storytelling with Quentin Blake and Friends

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Lorraine Cooke @MottisfontNT I’ve been a volunteer at my local National Trust property, Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire , since March 20...

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Proofreading Tips: Dashes

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Catriona Tippin An occasional look at punctuation with Proofreading Tips: Nearly there? Make a dash for it! Punctuation started...

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The Road Goes Ever On

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An inspiration piece – with thanks to J.R.R. Tolkien for the title Horton Scar Lane by David Sykes Some years ago, I volunteered to w...

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Candy Gourlay Liz Flanagan Lucy Coats Marie Basting Nick Cross Sarah Broadley Ten Minute Blog Break Vanessa Harbour

Ten-Minute Blog Break - 22nd July

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Following Sarah McIntyre's celeb-heavy contribution last week, a couple of other SCBWI bloggers are giving us their perspective on YAL...

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The Debut Author Series: Jo Franklin

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The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt Photo by Liz Emerson For many the road to publication is long and ...

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The Chalkface Challenge 2014 - The Results

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There were 29 entries for the Chalkface Challenge 2014 - the only writing competition judged entirely by children*. This year two schools...

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From Your Editor Nick Cross

(Not) A Word from Your Editor

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Jan Carr is having a well-deserved break from the editorial this week, so I, Nick Cross, will be attempting to fill in. I won’t go on too ...

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A Song of Peace Contest Helen Bonney

A Song of Peace

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This week, congratulations go to Helen Bonney who just won 3rd prize for the Tipperary Song of Peace Contest. Tipperary was made famous...

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The Debut Author Series

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Nicky Schmidt Part One - The Rejection Game - From slushpile to contract Most people when they start writing think it will take a yea...

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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 15th July

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Some weeks, compiling the Blog Break is hard - usually because there are too few good blog posts or too many. It's definitely a case o...

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Ask a Publisher: Karen Ball, Publisher at Little, Brown Young Readers and Atom

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@karenball talks to @HouseRowena Recorded May 10th 2014 at Oxon Hoath Manor House in Kent.

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From Your Editor

Helloooooo lovely readers!

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Words & Pictures averages over a thousand page views a day - fewer if it's sunny! After a year and half of almost daily posts, th...

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Let's celebrate The Year of the Rat!

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This week, we are absolutely thrilled to dig into a huge slice of cake and crack open the bubbly for Clare Furniss . Her debut novel, The ...

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Illustration Masterclass: Ways into Publishing

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This week author/illustrator Shana Nieberg-Suschitzky reports on our recent Illustration Masterclass event in London , covering the diffe...

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Events Network News Sara Lean Southampton voice

Finding Your Voice in Southampton

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On the 28th June Southampton had it's first SCBWI event - tons of respect to all you event organisers out there! We welcomed Sarah Lean...

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That First School Visit

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The first school visit is a rite of passage that most children’s authors will have to face at some point. You picture in your head exactly...

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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 8th July

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There will be those amongst you who thought that Sarah McIntyre couldn't possibly top the insane headgear that she wore to launch Oli...

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Ask a Picture Book Editor

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So, you’ve worked out your universal theme , created child-centred characters and honed your tone and pitch . In...

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Last Week on W&P

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How was your Children's Book Week ? No longer having school age children, I did not spend last Sunday night scrabbling around for cos...

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SlushPile Challenge - July 2014

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We are pleased to announce the July 2014 Slush Pile Challenge.

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Celebrations Helen Watts One Day in Oradour Souther Schools Book Award

'Extraordinary' Congratulations to Helen!

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Helen Watts We're very excited for Helen Watts, whose book One Day In Oradour has been selected for an Extraordinary Award in the 2...

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House of Illustration Illustrators' Fair: Notes from a Newbie

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Heather Chapman gives us an inside look to the House of Illustration 's inaugural Illustrators' Fair that took place Sunday 22nd ...

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Network News: Winchester Writers’ Festival

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We're lucky in the South to be so handy for the increasingly popular Winchester Writers’ Festival, now in its 34th year. Charlotte Com...

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Older Debuts

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You're never too old to become a published children's writer. In this post Janet Foxley shares her own experience of achieving su...

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Ten-Minute Blog Break - 1st July

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The Bunker Diary has been very much in the news this week. I knew that my teenage daughter had read the book and disliked it, so I asked ...

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Literary Agent, Lindsey Fraser on Submitting & The Edinburgh Book Fest 2014

The Debut Author Series: Jeannie Waudby

Ten-Minute Blog Break - 29th July

The Debut Author Series: Liz De Jager

The Chalkface Challenge 2014: The Shadowing Results

Dashing Off

Blow Your Own Trumpet!

Featured Illustrator: Alex Wilson

Network News South East: Volunteering and Storytelling with Quentin Blake and Friends

Proofreading Tips: Dashes

The Road Goes Ever On

Ten-Minute Blog Break - 22nd July

The Debut Author Series: Jo Franklin

The Chalkface Challenge 2014 - The Results

(Not) A Word from Your Editor

A Song of Peace

The Debut Author Series

Ten-Minute Blog Break - 15th July

Ask a Publisher: Karen Ball, Publisher at Little, Brown Young Readers and Atom

Helloooooo lovely readers!

Let's celebrate The Year of the Rat!

Illustration Masterclass: Ways into Publishing

Finding Your Voice in Southampton

That First School Visit

Ten-Minute Blog Break - 8th July

Ask a Picture Book Editor

Last Week on W&P

SlushPile Challenge - July 2014

'Extraordinary' Congratulations to Helen!

House of Illustration Illustrators' Fair: Notes from a Newbie

Network News: Winchester Writers’ Festival

Older Debuts

Ten-Minute Blog Break - 1st July

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