NEWS! We’re hosting a webinar, with #FightingFantasy author Sir Ian Livingstone, interviewed by our 2020 mentee Iqbal Hussain #NorthernBoy If the words ‘YOU are the hero!’ swiftly followed by gruesome death, send you right back to childhood, this is for you!Book now: tinyurl.com/35n7h6r6

#Writers, got a ticket to WOWCON, our online weekend writing conference? Now you can build-your-own conference by booking workshops & panels, like a Guide to Self Publishing with Stuart White & Jemma Hatt at 10am on Sunday 29th September. Book now ↪️ shorturl.at/so12s

I’m absolutely delighted to reveal that my second book will be published by Everything With Words in April 2025. I cannot wait to see it sitting alongside The Others. Mikka @ Everything With Words #MG #kidlit #middlegrade #childrensbooks

Our friends Wasafiri are hosting the first workshop with their 2024/25 Translator-in-Residence Sawad Hussain. ‘Writing Your Translation Memoir' is taking place online on Tuesday, 8 October, 7-9pm. More information & tickets: wasafiri.org/news-and-event…

It's publication day... here's an earlier* version of the opening to my novel for the curious and the committed. *because I've obvs I've tinkered with it - eek!

Honestly Aliya Ali-Afzal #TheBigDay 💗💍 and I have these kinds of chats anyway so it's going to be even better having other people there to join in. 😂❤️ Thanks to Round Table Books CIC for organising. 😊 Come along, it's going to be fun! 👇 roundtablebooks.co.uk/events-store/n…

An essay and feature by me for Italian art and culture magazine French Fries, for their Big Other issue. Production: Neoprene Genie All-in, in-house 🧞‍♀️ Photography by Myles Bailey VJing & post by Kareem ❤️‍🩹 Oi You Lot out now! Creative Direction: Tice Cin & team frenchfries-mag.com

No biggie but Keanu Reeves is coming to Southbank Centre on 22 October to open London Literature Festival. southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/keanu…

DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY ⏰ #IBCawards25 The IBC Awards is committed to celebrating the talent behind the best new inclusive children’s books published in the UK. And submissions are CLOSING SOON! Enter here: inclusivebooksforchildren.org/awards-2025

Here's just one of many testimonials about the Marketing for Writers course. Next one starts 28th Sept. Final places remaining. ✨️ Reply or DM to find out more. ✨️

Humbled, curious to learn at tomorrow's workshop brainstrust which I'm leading, on #writing one's story of lived experience of a brain tumour. Reading these stories brainstrust.org.uk/brain-tumour-s… I see how writing can help us to find some kind of "normal" and element of control #health

Delighted to announce that I'm starting a new role as a writing tutor in the City Lit Writing Dpt dept at City Lit! 😊 I'm currently down to teach The 60 Minute Writer course below, from Monday 30th Sept - all welcome! Do check out their other courses, too. 🔥 citylit.ac.uk/courses/the-60…

My latest essay talks environmental classicism & its impact on lives in our city. Citing the Coca Cola factory in Edmonton & Enfield's South London twin, Croydon and the Viridor waste incinerator. 90% of bin bags from other local boroughs are burned in Enfield. Skyfill. Our air.

A few pictures from a recent trip to #Birmingham. The art gallery is closed for some reason but there’s a temporary exhibition in a hall nearby. Those romantic pre-Raphaelites get me every time.

Out now #BfK no. 268, jam packed with interviews, features, comment & NEW #childrensbook reviews. Authorgraph Jenny Pearson, Windows into Illustration Sarah Massini, PLUS Matt Goodfellow interview, Tara Books at 30 & newcomers Postwave Children's Books 🍃booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-268-…

Just launched The Spark Podcast! This month with Iqbal Hussain #NorthernBoy Unbound interview (reading his written responses) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Is this real? I cannot believe I’m holding this in my hands 🤯 Official release dates: 26th September (UK) 15th October (USA) Thank you to everyone who’s already pre-ordered. 2,000 of your names are printed in the book 🙏🏽 Unbound

I have just picked up my copy of The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan, hot on the heels of its publication date. It looks like an absolutely remarkable read and one I can not wait to get stuck into.

Always a joy to find #NorthernBoy among the shelves. This time Waterstones Birmingham on a recent visit to our second city. #Birmingham Unbound

Hi everyone - work is still pretty scarce at present, so please do remember that if you need someone to write a script or make a film, do keep me in mind! This is where I'm happiest - writing & directing silly scenes like this...