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Publishing exciting, inclusive middle grade fiction & championing under-represented creatives. Black owned & led. Books available everywhere and via the link.
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Dinosaur Books Ltd @dinosaurbooksco.bsky.social · Feb 4
Looking for #BlackHistoryMonth ideas? Or inspiration and enrichment for the KS2 Benin topic? The West African historical Kingdom of Benin is rightly covered by many primary teachers. An amazing civilisation - that excelled in art - a fantastic way to explore Black History! #BHM #EduSky
Book cover titled: Children of the Benin Kingdom. Shows two silhouetted children surrounded by leaves and cowrie shells
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📚 Longlisted!

We’re thrilled to share that Black History for Every Day of the Year by @davidolusoga.bsky.social, Yinka Olusoga & Kemi Olusoga has been longlisted for the 2026 UKLA Book Awards in the Information Books category!✨

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UKLA Book Awards - UK Literacy Association
UKLA Book Awards 2026: The Longlists for the 2026 UKLA Book Awards are now live! Find out which titles have been selected by the
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September 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Given today’s news, I was recently introduced to this piece by Patricia Routledge, and i always found it really moving.
**"I'll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry - worry that I wasn't quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn't live up to my mother's hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude."** My life didn't quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily - on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions - but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn't quite found. At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with - Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people's living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me. At 60, I began learning Italian - not for work, but so l could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul. At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage - something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being. At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible. Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I'm learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter - though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever. **I'm writing this to tell you something simple:** **Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter - if you let yourself bloom again.** Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*. You don't need to be famous. Y…
October 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Planning for UK #WorldBookDay in the UK? For #KS1 or #KS2 dinosaur-themed talks, the Dinoteks author, NS Blackman is a good shout! #EduPrimary - contactanauthor.co.uk/author/167/n...
Man in a straw hat crouching down in undergrowth with a carved wooden life size dinosaur or crocodile head Book cover of a boy running with two troodons next to him and a T Rex in the background
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Good news! Because *every* UK primary should have a funded school library #EduSky #EduSkyPrimary
schoolsweek.bsky.social Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · Sep 29
Labour has pledged to ensure every primary school in England has its own library, through a £132.5m scheme unveiled by Rachel Reeves today

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September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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arachnepress.bsky.social
Saturday 04/10/2026
2-4pm
IPN Poetry Salon at Museum in the Park, Stroud, Hannah Hull is reading from Home is a place that visits me alongside Afonydd poets Des Mannay & Iris Anne Lewis, plus poets from other member publisers.
Free tix www.dialect.org.uk/coursesworks...
Poetry Salon: Indie Press Network — Dialect
Join us for an afternoon of readings as the Indie Press Network brings together acclaimed poets from across the UK’s vibrant small press landscape.
www.dialect.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Journalist friends, please respond to the UK government's consultation on late payments and poor practices. The NUJ has responses to help your submission. This is an important opportunity for every freelance journalist. #StopTheFreelanceRipOff: nuj.org.uk/resource/stop-the-freelance-rip-off.html
Stop the freelance rip-off
All freelances in the UK should respond to government's consultation on late payments and poor payment practices. It's time for urgent change.
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September 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Very much looking forward to the @empathylabuk.bsky.social conference in November. It's a superb line-up of speakers including @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, @teresacremin.bsky.social and authors @amdassu.bsky.social and @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social. An important day! empathylab.uk/raising-gene...
September 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?

Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).

More info: https://bit.ly/4mHlgcn
September 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"Autumn" is the first part of "Six Quatrains," which appears in So Far So Good (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).
Ursula K. Le Guin's poetry collection So Far So Good: Final Poems 2014-2018, the cover of which shows a river in the foreground, with golden, rugged hills in the background. AUTUMN gold of amber red of ember brown of umber all September
September 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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littlerebsprize.bsky.social
Wonderful to see you here!

The #LittleRebelsAward is an award for UK radical children’s fiction, run by @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social & @housmansbookshop.bsky.social on behalf of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers.

And we’ve just announced our:
2025 Little Rebels Award Shortlist!
July 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Online storybooks, author read-alouds, book trailers & compelling YouTube channels - our collection of useful video resources to help children get excited about picking a new book. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/st... #booktwitter
Storybooks online - free videos of children's and YA books
Storybooks online - video online stories read by authors including Cressida Cowell, David Walliams, Malorie Blackman, Michael Rosen and more.
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June 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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bookclubsinschools.bsky.social
Happy International Women's Day 💜

#IWD #IWD2025
Two young women loking at books in a bookshop
March 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Happy World Book Day to all authors taking part! #ReadingForPleasure
Author Cheryl Diane Parkinson holding a copy of her book Last Girl In Author Nigel Blackman holding two of his books - the Dinoteks and Undercover Alien
March 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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February 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
dinosaurbooksco.bsky.social
Our Anglo-Saxon story is pretty popular with KS2 teachers ... and now the same author is thinking about his next #HistoricalFiction for children. So we'd like to know, what do you *like* and *not like* to see in curriculum-linked #HistoricalFiction adventures? #EduSky #EduLib
A boy and a girl riding horses on a middle grade children's fiction book about the Anglo-Saxons called Freedom for Bron
February 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The 2025 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is open 📖

All young writers 8 - 18 can enter, with a story, poem or lyrics that - inspired by #BranfordBoaseAward winner Nathanael Lessore - will make the judges laugh!

Find out more and get #Writing!

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Graphic advertising the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition and its invitation to be inspired by Branford Boase Award winner Nathanael Lessore, also pictured. It features logos of ALCS and Walker Books who support the Branford Boase Award.
February 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Don't miss @nessowen.bsky.social reading from her latest #poetry collection, Naming the Trees, at Pen'rallt gallery bookshop, #Machynlleth on #publicationday this Thursday 27th Feb 6pm for 6.30 £5 includes refreshments and local poets @ontheoutbreath.bsky.social and suzanne iuppa
February 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Can TikTok and diversity address 'historic low' in reading? www.bbc.com/news/article... Interesting read .. time and again we learn that it’s important for children see themselves reflected
Can TikTok and diversity address 'historic low' in reading?
The National literacy Trust say less than one in three children are regular readers.
www.bbc.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
dinosaurbooksco.bsky.social
Looking for #BlackHistoryMonth ideas? Or inspiration and enrichment for the KS2 Benin topic? The West African historical Kingdom of Benin is rightly covered by many primary teachers. An amazing civilisation - that excelled in art - a fantastic way to explore Black History! #BHM #EduSky
Book cover titled: Children of the Benin Kingdom. Shows two silhouetted children surrounded by leaves and cowrie shells
February 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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5 ways to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth (cause the fed govt doesn’t run your house)

1. Find out what Sojourner Truth REALLY said
2. Buy a Black horror, scifi or fantasy book
3. Listen to “Naima” by John Coltrane
4. Send the victims of the LA fires in Altadena a few coins
5. Get a library card
February 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Writing residency for older writers!

Please share!
bridportprize.bsky.social The Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social · Jan 28
NEW Dorset Writing Residencies!

📝 For 2 UK writers based in The Midlands or North West who are working class and/or 60+
📝 Sun 22 June to Frid 27 June
📝 Supported by Kit de Waal, our honorary patron
📝 Apply at bridportprize.org.uk/news/residencies-2025/
📝 Application deadline 23:59pm 28 February
January 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Looking forward to attending this tomorrow and meeting up with fellow @inpressbooks.bsky.social publishers
inpressbooks.bsky.social Inpress Books 📚 @inpressbooks.bsky.social · Jan 22
Only a week until our festival of publishing - have you booked your ticket?

We're looking forward to hearing from experts on crafting blurbs and covers, perfecting campaigns, making sense of finance, navigating AI and sustainability.

We'd love to see you there! inpressbooks.co.uk/products/inp...
January 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Please , if you are able , support Independent publishers who are doing most of the heavy lifting in finding great new writers!

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social
@saraband-books.bsky.social
@influxpress.bsky.social
@galleybeggars.bsky.social
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social

And many more
December 4, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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Oh my god, thank you Amanda from last year for packing all the Christmas decorations away so neatly and by category
December 1, 2024 at 8:01 PM