Happy Monday all! This week we welcome two 🌟brand new shiny 🌟 authors to the Raven nest - please say hello to Nicola Whyte and Richard Strachan whose very different but equally beautiful books will be hatching in 2025 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛tinyurl.com/yhy42kmu

Psst... It's October... Can I interest you in a spooky read? An audiobook perhaps? Guaranteed not haunted or cursed in any way...* *guarantee is not guaranteed 💀🍂🪦

Sometimes I look at the news & wonder what I'm doing, writing children's books in times like these. But it's precisely in times like these that children's books are most vital. Because they are the books that will help kids make a better world than this. theguardian.com/childrens-book…

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Great to see Searchlight's new chapter book competition announced yesterday in The Bookseller! Well done team Searchlight Writing for Children Awards. I'm super stoked to be judging this one! thebookseller.com/news/chapter-b… Bright Literary

Our submissions are now open, on the theme of ELEMENTS for our next issue! We're looking for wonderful new #writing and #illustration pieces for a #kidlit and #youngadult audience. See our guidelines below. Which elements will you choose? 🔥🫧🌿🌪️ 👉paperboundmag.com/submit

🎉 Excited to announce our new competition for new unpublished, unagented children’s & YA authors with BRILLIANT guest judges Emma Jones, Alex Antscherl & Sarah Stewart! 🤗🎉

📢 We’re so excited to announce a new partnership with Bonnier Books UK, sponsors of our 2024 Novel & Picture Book Awards. 4 categories this year means 4 winners who will be selected by a brilliant team of agents & Bonnier Books UK editors - meet our judges + enter now ⤵️

Our 2024 Novel & Picture Book Awards are open now for entries 🎉 Sponsored by Bonnier Books UK, a shortlist judging panel of agents & editors from Hot Key Books ✨📚, Piccadilly Press 📖✨ + Templar Books, 4 winners across 4 categories, a cash prize...what are you waiting for? Enter now

You’ve only got a few more weeks to enter this brilliant competition from Searchlight Writing for Children Awards. Get your application in! Can’t wait to see all the brilliant entries!

I read for a competition for many years, helping to select long lists and shortlists, but I’ve never been a judge before! I’m soooo excited to read some fabulous YA (and maybe sign a new client or two?! 🙈). Deadline is the end of January so get submitting now! 👇👇👇

We’re being asked: ‘If I’m longlisted will you request my full manuscript?’ The answer is no. For this competition all we need is your first chapter and a pitch. Good luck! searchlightawards.co.uk/competitions/ #searchlightawards #writingcommunity #kidlit

A reminder that because of our tech issues today, our writing awards close tomorrow at midnight instead of tonight - so there's still time to enter ↪️ shorturl.at/lsuw1

Thank you to everyone who entered #cheshirenovelprizekids and a huge congratulations to our 28 longlisted writers. Good luck on the rest of the journey. Feedback will go out 30th June latest to ALL entrants. 💚💚💖

I've just seen this on Amazon. It's a wonderful story by my talented friend Naomi Conran 📚 Sadly Naomi didn't live to see it in print, but she would love this cover. The Fourth Wing for readers aged 8 to 12. #amreading #amwritingMG Skywild amzn.eu/d/6mbPbGa

This is beautiful

Look everyone! It's my book!

IT'S COMPETITION TIME 🎃. Head over to: facebook.com/profile.php?id… and be in for a chance to win some spooky fairy door goodies with Forgotten Kingdoms: forgottenkingdoms.myshopify.com

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A reminder that I cannot access the QueryManager inbox I had at my old agency. Anything sent to me before I was made redundant in July has sadly been lost... But you can query me again when I’m open to your genre! (Can someone put this somewhere on my QueryTracker page?!)