Literary Agent, Lindsey Fraser on Submitting & The Edinburgh Book Fest 2014 02:00Sarah Broadley www.fraserross.co.uk As a volunteer with SCBWI British Isles, South East Scotland, I was privileged to be given the chan... 6 Comments Read
The Debut Author Series: Jeannie Waudby 02:00 The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt Photo by Erica Abi-Karam For many the road to publication is long a... 12 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 29th July 02:30 Hello there - a new voice on your Ten-Minute Blog break this week: Nick Cross has mysteriously transmogrified into a Yorkshire lass. The b... 3 Comments Read
The Debut Author Series: Liz De Jager 02:00 The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt For many the road to publication is long and fraught. For others, a... 9 Comments Read
The Chalkface Challenge 2014: The Shadowing Results 18:00 We know who won The Chalkface Challenge 2014 - congratulations again to Jill Atkins for Elrac and the Konkipong Tree but whose entries... 4 Comments Read
Dashing Off 11:35 After last week's excitement of The Chalkface Challenge Winner, Jill Atkins - (do go and read Jill's winning entry - it's wha... 1 Comments Read
Blow Your Own Trumpet! 02:00 ...or trombone! Last year Nick said.... "We do have the Celebrations column on Words & Pictures, but what about a celebrat... 5 Comments Read
Featured Illustrator: Alex Wilson 00:00 This month's Featured Illustrator is Alex Wilson, an up-and-coming young artist with experience of training on both sides of the Atl... 5 Comments Read
Network News South East: Volunteering and Storytelling with Quentin Blake and Friends 02:30Lorraine Cooke @MottisfontNT I’ve been a volunteer at my local National Trust property, Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire , since March 20... 2 Comments Read
Proofreading Tips: Dashes 14:00 Catriona Tippin An occasional look at punctuation with Proofreading Tips: Nearly there? Make a dash for it! Punctuation started... 5 Comments Read
The Road Goes Ever On 02:00An 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... 1 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 22nd July 02:30 Following Sarah McIntyre's celeb-heavy contribution last week, a couple of other SCBWI bloggers are giving us their perspective on YAL... 4 Comments Read
The Debut Author Series: Jo Franklin 02:00 The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt Photo by Liz Emerson For many the road to publication is long and ... 12 Comments Read
The Chalkface Challenge 2014 - The Results 14:00 There were 29 entries for the Chalkface Challenge 2014 - the only writing competition judged entirely by children*. This year two schools... 6 Comments Read
(Not) A Word from Your Editor 02:00 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 ... 2 Comments Read
A Song of Peace 02:00 This week, congratulations go to Helen Bonney who just won 3rd prize for the Tipperary Song of Peace Contest. Tipperary was made famous... 4 Comments Read
The Debut Author Series 02:00 Nicky Schmidt Part One - The Rejection Game - From slushpile to contract Most people when they start writing think it will take a yea... 11 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 15th July 02:30 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... 3 Comments Read
Ask a Publisher: Karen Ball, Publisher at Little, Brown Young Readers and Atom 02:00 @karenball talks to @HouseRowena Recorded May 10th 2014 at Oxon Hoath Manor House in Kent. 6 Comments Read
Helloooooo lovely readers! 10:21 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... 14 Comments Read
Let's celebrate The Year of the Rat! 02:00 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 ... 4 Comments Read
Illustration Masterclass: Ways into Publishing 00:00 This week author/illustrator Shana Nieberg-Suschitzky reports on our recent Illustration Masterclass event in London , covering the diffe... 6 Comments Read
Finding Your Voice in Southampton 12:10On the 28th June Southampton had it's first SCBWI event - tons of respect to all you event organisers out there! We welcomed Sarah Lean... 3 Comments Read
That First School Visit 02:00 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... 7 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 8th July 02:30 There will be those amongst you who thought that Sarah McIntyre couldn't possibly top the insane headgear that she wore to launch Oli... 1 Comments Read
Ask a Picture Book Editor 03:00 So, you’ve worked out your universal theme , created child-centred characters and honed your tone and pitch . In... 4 Comments Read
Last Week on W&P 11:31 How was your Children's Book Week ? No longer having school age children, I did not spend last Sunday night scrabbling around for cos... 3 Comments Read
SlushPile Challenge - July 2014 07:00 We are pleased to announce the July 2014 Slush Pile Challenge. 18 Comments Read
'Extraordinary' Congratulations to Helen! 08:47 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... 1 Comments Read
House of Illustration Illustrators' Fair: Notes from a Newbie 02:13 Heather Chapman gives us an inside look to the House of Illustration 's inaugural Illustrators' Fair that took place Sunday 22nd ... 4 Comments Read
Network News: Winchester Writers’ Festival 14:00We're lucky in the South to be so handy for the increasingly popular Winchester Writers’ Festival, now in its 34th year. Charlotte Com... 3 Comments Read
Older Debuts 02:00 You're never too old to become a published children's writer. In this post Janet Foxley shares her own experience of achieving su... 10 Comments Read
Ten-Minute Blog Break - 1st July 02:30 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 ... 0 Comments Read