CELEBRATIONS September 2024
Summer might be drawing to a close but our SCBWI members still have wonderful things to celebrate...
Huge congratulations to Miranda Moore who has won the David Fickling Books & Arvon 'Search for a Storyteller' competition with her YA novel, For Never Was a Story. Miranda is a long-standing member of SCBWI and this is what she had to say about the news:
"I'm absolutely thrilled, obviously. It has taken me years of attending (often SCBWI-organised) workshops, years of reading craft books, years of chiselling with my YA crit group, years of longlistings and shortlistings, years of writing other things to get to a point where I’m winning a publishing deal for my fiction. I guess the point is: keep honing, keep improving, keep writing brilliant stories, people!"
We couldn't be happier for you Miranda and it's lovely to hear that your perseverance has paid off.
Miranda is a longstanding member of SCBWI Scotland
Have you got good news to share? A new book? An offer of agent representation? An award? Don't be shy! Why not send an email over to production@britishscbwi.org together with a picture and any links so we can celebrate with you.
*Header image: in-house collaboration by Ell Rose & Tita Berredo
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Tracy Curran is the Production Editor for Words & Pictures and enjoys writing picture books, young fiction and lower middle-grade novels. Known as Little Cornish Writer, you can find her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
She also enjoys reviewing children's books on her blog The Breadcrumb Forest.
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Ell Rose is the Illustration Features Editor of Words & Pictures.
Find their work at https://fourfooteleven.com
Contact them at illustrators@britishscbwi.org
Tita Berredo is the Illustrator Coordinator of SCBWI British Isles and the Art Director of Words & Pictures. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter or www.titaberredo.com
Contact her at: illuscoordinator@britishscbwi.org.
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