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Imagine a poetry resource for children, free and safe to use, with a wide and wonderful range of poems from poets who you may not have heard of yet are producing the quality of work you'd expect from more established and well-known poets signed up to big publishing houses ... 🎈

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I am delighted my new poem, Let's Celebrate The Stage, is with The Dirigible Balloon 🎈 's June flight. Thank you, Jonathan Humble, for creating a community & home for many poems, including my poems about moonstones, countryside crafts, pineapple party dresses, spider plants & happiness.

My class were desperate to shout out ‘please’ when we got to it in this fabulous poem! They absolutely loved it. David Bleiman (grandfather poet) #ChildrensPoetry #edutwitter dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Please

Searchlight Writing for Children Awards 2023 Entries are invited for the Best Novel Opening for Children and Young Adults and Best Picture Book Text Find out more - bit.ly/3WLTQW8

Why is writing a synopsis for a PB the hardest thing in the world?! My story appears to be about a million different things and none of them at the same time! #kidlit #writingcommunity #picturebook

Submissions for our NATURE Edition are now open! You have until 23:59 on Tuesday 12th September to send us your stories, poems and illustrations. We are really looking forward to seeing them! #SubmissionsCall #KidLit #ChildrensMagazine #SubmissionsOpen #WritingCommunity

We are now half way through the submissions window for our Nature edition. You have three weeks left to send us your poems, stories and illustrations! See our website for further details. #SubmissionsOpen #SubmissionsCall #KidLit #ChikdrensMagazine

Reading some fantastic new poems on The Dirigible Balloon 🎈 🎈 It’s made me feel all warm and cosy on this cold drizzly day. dirigibleballoon.org

Just a couple of weeks left to submit!

Want to see what 111 free-to-view quality Christmas/Winter themed poems written for children looks like? #Christmas #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 🎈

Idea Idol, our new pitching competition, is now open internationally until mid-July ↪️ shorturl.at/MH2Sq To help sharpen your pitch, here’s some brilliant advice from a guest agent who judged our monthly pitching contest on the WriteMentor Hub ↪️ shorturl.at/Jj7R8

The winner of WriteMentor's Idea Idol is...🥁🥁🥁 🎉 Kirsti Sinclair's Middle Grade story 'Dewey Decimal is My Friend' 🎉 Judge @deedotpower said: “I loved this pitch. It’s relatively straightforward – no saving the world stakes here, but it still has a really strong sense of

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Just entered my picture book text into the WriteMentor Novel and Picture Book Awards!! It's a great opportunity for any aspiring writers as it has picture book right up to adult categories. Good luck to anyone who enters 😊

My latest picture book tip: read your story aloud! @picturebooktips instagram.com/reel/DHDrcj9Mi… #picturebook #amwriting #kidlit

My latest picture book tips video: Read as many picture books as you can (particularly newly published) #picturebooks #kidlit #childrenswriter #amwriting instagram.com/reel/DHqC117su…