I told you tonight we die as a family
we were supposed to die
as a family

🥁Drumroll please!!🥁

We have exciting news here at the Children’s Bookshop. To celebrate our 50th anniversary we’re launching a story writing competition for 8-15yos. The winner and runners-up can win fabulous book prizes.

Tell your friends and family!
childrensbookshoplondon.com/competition

Our Zoom Workshop Series is looming. The 1st one, with Clare Pollard [May 7, 7-9pm, £24.50/£18.50] is just over 4 weeks away. Entitled 'Joining the Poetic Conversation' can you afford to miss this rare workshop from this brilliant poet? Only a few spaces left tinyurl.com/mryb2dr9

Sorry but wtf is going on with the price of olive oil??

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists theguardian.com/global/2024/ap…

This new Biden commercial airing nationwide is absolutely gut-wrenching.

Thanks Mathew! None of the editorial team is paid, so these £3s go towards costs like Submittable and web hosting, which are far from cheap. We're still unfunded and can't offer to pay guest editors. Dr Jo Clement is editing issue 20 solo for this reason.

On Wednesday 10th April, join us online for the launch of ‘The Butterfly House’ by Kathryn Bevis, with guest readings by Dillon Jaxxpoet and Jonathan Edwards. Register for the Zoom link here forms.gle/zAdwQxv3eKu2Tf….

i thought this by Clare Pollard, out in june, was just wonderful - other people will rightly praise many things about it but i am here to tell you that there was a scene so romantic that i wanted to fling the proof across the room, and as you all know my standards are very exacting

PROOF REVEAL 🎉

THE WATERMARK is Sam Mills's kaleidoscopic, book-surfing adventure of love and fate. Publishing in August.

‘Playful, romantic and very, very clever. Like Inception for booklovers' Clare Pollard

Cover (as seen on back) by Nathan Burton
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-wa…

Gorgeous poem (and translation) that has re-emerged from this morning's poetry discourse

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe theguardian.com/environment/20…

'Remember that when you’re standing on the train in the morning surrounded by bodies—roughly half of them female bodies. They could be bleeding. Standing and bleeding. Walking and bleeding. Smiling and bleeding.'
mcsweeneys.net/articles/anyth…

Respected children's writers and illustrators and a whole organisation and a whole publishing team get together and agree, in this plague year 2024, that the most disgusting thing to add to The Twits is ... a visible disability. Scrap this now PuffinBooks and do so much better.

RIP Lynne Reid Banks

This is both heartbreaking & maddening.
The creative industries account for more than £100bn to UK economy, 15.9% of all UK service exports.; there is more production space here than anywhere in world outside of Hollywood. RT if agree!
#supportthearts theguardian.com/education/2024…

Roan and the greyhounds from 'The Untameables' by Clare Pollard published by @theemmapress, illustrated by me - available to buy here - theemmapress.com/shop/childrens…

You want us to give you translation datasets FOR FREE so you can train your AI to take a human translator’s job?

Fcuk off all the way with that

📝Winchester Poetry Prize 2024 is open!

Judge: Clare Shaw
1st: £1000 | 2nd: £500 | 3rd: £250

🦋Introducing Kathryn Bevis Prize for best entry by #Hampshire -based poet: 1yr Writing School tuition + £150

Full details 👉🏿 winchesterpoetryfestival.org/prize

Paris Smith | The Writing School

So pleased about the new Kathryn Bevis prize, she is a total poetry legend 🦋 not to mention bloody Clare Shaw is judging! come on guys, enter, we’re open!