✨ April Events at Waterstones Deansgate ✨
Want to know what we've got coming up this month? Check out the comments below for a fun-packed month of sci-fi, music, magic and sheep 🐑

Tickets for all available here 🎟️: waterstones.com/events/search/…
#WaterstonesDeansgate #authorevents

Holiday to sunny Mallorca got cancelled this week due to poorly boyfriend, so I was left in rainy Manchester with holiday nails! 🤣 💅

Submissions are now OPEN for our Picture Book Foundation Course with Blue Elephant Storyshaping! If you're a budding writer dreaming of getting published, this course is for you! Apply now: lnkfi.re/JerichoPrizeTW
Submissions close 22 April 2024!
#JerichoPrize #LetsCreate

Check out the next Children’s Books North Northern Highlight interview with Nadine Aisha Jassat 👇👇👇

A HUGE thank you to everyone who applied for the Children’s Books North 2024 mentor scheme. Can’t wait to read your applications!

After 18 months of planning, collabs, team work, designing, painting, secrets, teasers, unveilings, moving Elmers around the country let alone Blackpool, and everything in between… Team Elmer and Brian House Hospice are proud to announce that Blackpool's first art trail has begun!

Only 2 days left to apply for the Children’s Books North mentor scheme! 👇👇👇

Our latest Northern Highlight is an interview with Fiona The Edinburgh Bookshop. Fiona talks biscuits, the variety of days in the bookshop and the importance of representation in books. Fiona picked Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚' Keedie as the April Book of the Month.

Applications are open – until 14 April – for the Children's Books North Mentor Scheme!
12 aspiring publishers will get the chance to be mentored by an industry professional. Open to anyone interested in working in publishing based in North England/Scotland
childrensbooksnorth.blogspot.com/2024/03/mentor…

A wonderful opportunity for anyone based in the North and Scotland who has an interest in publishing! More info here - childrensbooksnorth.blogspot.com/2024/03/mentor…

A brilliant list! Congratulations to our members who’ve been included 🎉

📢We've officially opened our doors again! Or, we're now receiving applications for our Open Doors Project 📢

If you're from a traditionally under-represented background, looking for a publishing role, please consider applying before 25.04 :

blakefriedmann.co.uk/carole-blake-o…

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General tickets on sale later this week! #CityofLit

There are many places I love to hang out in Chorlton but the The Edge The Dressing Room Cafe & Bar at The Edge is right up there! ❤️ #home

These beauties in my garden are giving me great happiness! ❤️ 🌷

If you're based in the North of England/Scotland and want to #WorkInPublishing , don't miss this opportunity. No prior experience needed! 👇 #PublishingHopefuls

This is a game changer! 👇😍 I was lucky enough to be picked as one of the mentees last year and highly recommend the scheme to anyone thinking of a career in publishing.
Good luck🤞

A brilliant new opportunity for start up publishers.

Introducing our 2024 Mentors! Emma is Picture Book Development Director, North at Hachette Children’s Group. She is focused on acquiring Northern, Scottish and Irish talent. Emma is also Hachette UK’s Manchester Office Lead and is a board member for Seven Stories in Newcastle.

Say hello to 2024 mentor, Laura! Based in Edinburgh, Laura is Publishing Director at Wren & Rook, Hachette Children’s Group. She now commissions and publishes children’s non-fiction, but previously worked in adult publishing for Canongate and Penguin Random House.