👏🏽Great write up on my sis @LawrencePatrice new book Splinters of Sunshine in @thesundaytimes Sunday Times Culture 📚 Children’s Book of the Week by Nicolette Jones

#AllStoriesMentorship is in the The Observer, but please ignore the awful click-bait headline. It’s fantastic for an independent programme such as All Stories to receive national media attention, but to frame it with a narrative of 'us versus them' is incredibly irresponsible. 1/3

Dear The Guardian Please remove the provocative “Move Over David Walliams” headline from your children’s lit. piece. It trashes and misrepresents the good content. And is inflammatory and divisive beyond belief.

Podcast alert! Tune into this week’s A DOG’S LIFE 🐕‍🦺🎧 I’m chatting to Award Winning Children’s Autor Jane Elson About the dogs, horses and cats in her books that help Dyslexic children learn reading is fun! Link in bio, produced Pod People Productions All Dogs Matter #dogs #read

Cannot wait, @LawrencePatrice Scholastic UK Lauren Fortune

A twist on the traditional festive read is @lawrencepatrice's mystery SPLINTERS OF SUNSHINE, set in the run up to Christmas. Spey's friend has disappeared off-grid. He has an idea of where she might be, but is he willing to accept help from his estranged father to track her down?

Applications close Monday 13th Dec - come join us!

LOVED working on this novel. So many talking points deftly packed into one very satisfying (and brilliantly crafted) story. Congrats Natasha Devon 🌈💙 👏

📚Submissions Update📚 We're extending our open period for submissions! From now on our submissions will be open from the 1st-21st of every month & closed from the 22nd-month end. This will still allow us to read & respond to every sub, all while giving you more time to submit!

📢 Paid mentorship opportunity for children’s authors of colour with two fantastic mentors 📢Check out the Scottish Book Trust for how to apply.

Long-shot but does anyone have a young Jane Elson fan called Ophelia in their life? (With extremely lovely handwriting…) Twitter, let’s find her so the author can thank her for the letter and artwork 💛

Teachers, please do not ignore this. It came to this because a series of adults failed to respect and centre the experiences of this young person. This is what marginalisation looks like. We can counter it by thinking about what our students need. Ask. Listen.

#NoPoliceInSchools The horrifying details of what #ChildQ was subjected to by her school and the Met Police is exactly what groups like Kids Of Colour, NPMP and the NEU’s Northwest Black Member’s Organising Forum are fighting against with their campaign.

The next #AllStories programme will be launching next Friday 8th April. We can't wait to share our plans for 2022–2023 with you and support more writers from underrepresented groups to develop their talent! #allstorieswrite #writing #creativewriting #representation #inclusion

Just one day to go! We can't wait to share all our plans for #AllStories 2022–2023 with you tomorrow. Stay tuned... #allstorieswrite #launch #underrepresentedwriters #inclusion #diversity #representation #writing #creativewriting #writingcommunity #amwriting #kidlit

Only a month to get your application in for All Stories *updates only* … Come and work with me or another All Stories mentor on your Middle Grade or YA novel!

Beware, every1 flying easyJet - just because you’ve had no text/email, doesn’t mean your flight HASN’T been cancelled. Found out KLX-LGW Sunday cancelled by chance check on their website, no comms from Easyjet. Check days ahead of flight! #easyJetcancellations #easyJet

If you needed any more motivation with just two days to go until our mentorship application deadline, here's what one of our previous mentees, Dawn Amesbury, said: “What an amazing experience this mentorship has been and how lucky I feel to have had this fantastic opportunity.”

Congratulations to the winners of this year's #FABPrize. It's especially good to see some All Stories *updates only* current mentees, former mentees and writing group members on the lists!

Had the utter pleasure of working on this with the always brilliant Dr Joanna Nadin is mainly on Threads & can confirm - yes, she IS alive! Is the best part of the job, seeing a project you’ve adored go out into the world and it receiving the praise it deserves. #acalamityofmannerings uclan publishing