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Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you, Fleur!

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Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you!

Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thank you so much, Ed!

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Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thank you, Helenka!

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Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social · Aug 5

#@wainwrightprize.bsky.social I'm so happy to see Ettie and the Midnight Pool on this shortlist. Thank you! Nurturing a love of the natural world is very dear to my heart #storiesthatconnect #wainwrightprize

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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · Aug 5

We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize shortlists!

From climate and conservation to poetry, place and powerful storytelling for young readers, this year’s books celebrate our connection to the natural world.

Explore them all: wainwrightprize.com

#StoriesThatConnect

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Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thrilled to see Ettie and the Midnight Pool on the shortlist for the 2025 Children's Wainwright Prize for fiction!

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Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social · Aug 5

I'm so delighted to see Ettie and the Midnight Pool on this wonderful shortlist! Such an important prize, nurturing a love of the natural world in young people 🌿

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · Aug 5

The link between books and nature can be so powerful, and it's something we think about a lot.

So huge congratulations to all the authors and illustrators nominated for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social, and thank you for creating such inspiring reads for young people 👇

The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · Aug 5

We’re excited to reveal the 2025 Children’s #WainwrightPrize for Fiction Shortlist! 🌿

Stories of wonder, courage and care. These authors inspire the next generation to imagine a better, wilder world.

#StoriesThatConnect

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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · Jul 25

Spending time with a good nature book does something no screen can: it slows the mind, grounds the body, and reconnects you with the world.

Reading nature writing isn’t just good for your brain, it’s good for your soul.

What book has done that for you lately? 🌿📚

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The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social · Jul 4

We’re delighted to reveal the 2025 #WainwrightPrize longlists! 📚🌿

From inspiring nature writing & bold conservation stories to stunning illustration & children’s books brimming with wonder, this year’s selection celebrates the power of stories to connect people and planet.

wainwrightprize.com

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · Jun 26

Welcome new fellows! @efernie.bsky.social @kayfuller.bsky.social @profjohngardner.bsky.social @jgreenauthor.bsky.social @rachelpixl.bsky.social @loujs.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social @bathspauni.bsky.social @angliaruskin.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social

The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · Jun 26

🌟🥳 Meet our new Fellows, nominated by their peers, they represent excellence in the teaching & learning of English, & have an active role in the EA’s mission. Stay tuned over this week, to find out the distinguished scholars & teachers awarded Fellowships this year! Here are some of them ⬇️🌟🥳

Pictures of new fellows, full details on our website.

Pictures of new fellows, full info on our website.

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Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social · Mar 15

Workshops with Pascale Petite and Alice Oswald 🎉🎉🎉 Performances with Harry Baker, Ilya Kaminsky, Jackie Kay. Plus poetry slams, open mic, and so much more! 👇🏼👇🏼🎉🎉🎉

Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social · Mar 14

@lyrafest.com full programme is now on the website! Check out Bristol’s vibrant poetry festival 25 April-4 May 🎉🎉🎉

www.lyrafest.com

Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival

www.lyrafest.com

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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · Mar 12

Carnegies 2025 Shortlisted Books 📚👍🏼
schoolreadinglist.co.uk/new-book-rel...
#kidlit
Shortlists for the Carnegie Medal 2025 and Kate Greenaway award 2025 - recommended for children and young adults in primary and secondary schools....

Carnegies 2025 Shortlisted Books

Carnegie Medal 2025 shortlists for writing and illustration - recommended for children and young adults in primary and secondary schools.

schoolreadinglist.co.uk

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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social · Feb 14

If you're going to the @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social this weekend, there are still some spaces on my Sunday morning workshop, 'The Wall Thin as a Wren's Bone': Strengthening Your Similes'. Please share!

www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/...

THE WALL AS THIN AS A WREN's BONE | VERVEPoetryFestival

www.vervepoetryfestival.com

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Fleur Hitchcock @fleurhitchcock.bsky.social · Feb 14

If anyone is coming to the @waterstoneskids.bsky.social festival in Lincoln tomorrow, and didn't manage to get a ticket to see us, that's @hannahgold.bsky.social @jennypearson.bsky.social me & Natasha Farrant, we'll be in the bookshop afterwards so come & say hello, ask questions & get books signed.

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Little Tiger @littletigeruk.bsky.social · Feb 13

We’re supporting #ReadItForward! Buy any Little Tiger books during February on Bookshop.org and @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social will donate 10% to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

🔗 uk.bookshop.org/shop/littlet...

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Sarah McIntyre @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social · Feb 10

Here on the worktop:
#Adventuremice having breakfast on a treetop porch swing ✍️
(ink & watercolour illustration) 🎨🐭

Watercolour painting of six of the Adventuremice team plus an extra mystery mouse

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · Feb 11

The Faber Children’s team is looking for a Project Editor to work on children’s titles from picture books up to YA. The successful candidate will be a meticulous, with a keen eye for detail and great communication skills.

faber.co.uk/careers/childrens-project-editor-maternity-cover/

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Feb 10

This a great competition, dear to my heart (got an honorary mention many years ago) run by lovely people.

Polish off those bits of flash and enter.

Please share :)

West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social · Feb 10

The Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize is open for entries until 28 February and will be judged by @taniahershman.bsky.social. The top ten will be published in the Fish Anthology which will be launched at WCLF this July
www.fishpublishing.com/competition/...

Flash Fiction Prize - Fish Publishing

Flash Fiction Contest online from Fish Publishing. 10 flash stories (300 words max) will be published in the annual Fish Anthology

www.fishpublishing.com

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Andrea Reece @reeceandrea.bsky.social · Feb 11

If you know young people who like #Writing, tell them about the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition. Open now to all 8 - 18 yr olds. The judges are looking for stories, poems, lyrics that will make them laugh. They want young writers to have fun!
branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2025-competi...

Graphic to highlight the 2025 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition for Young People which runs in conjunction with the Branford Boase Award and is open too all young people 8 - 18. Author Henrietta Branford who died in 2000, was always keen to encourage young writers. The Branford Boase Award was set up in memory of Henrietta and her editor Wendy Boase of Walker Books.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Feb 11

Words To Live By Number 185

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · Feb 11

‘Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.’ - Seamus Heaney, Poet & Nobel Laureate.

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Books for Keeps, the online children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · Feb 11

The 2025 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is open 📖

All young writers 8 - 18 can enter, with a story, poem or lyrics that - inspired by #BranfordBoaseAward winner Nathanael Lessore - will make the judges laugh!

Find out more and get #Writing!

booksforkeeps.co.uk/make-em-laug...

Graphic advertising the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition and its invitation to be inspired by Branford Boase Award winner Nathanael Lessore, also pictured. It features logos of ALCS and Walker Books who support the Branford Boase Award.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Feb 9

Please share :)

Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · Feb 9

I’m judging the Plough Poetry Prize this year, deadline 28 March, first prize is £1,000. Send us your best poems!

www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...

The Plough Prize - 2025

International Poetry Competition Now in its twenty second year, the Plough Poetry Prize is an international open competition for poems in English up to 40 lines on any subject. The competition this ye...

www.theploughartscentre.org.uk

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Feb 9

The Hosking Houses Trust
supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon.

Details in link.

Please share :)

hoskinghouses.org.uk

18th century cottage in England, whitewashed, roses round the door

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