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Janeen Hayat
@janeenhayat.bsky.social
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Winner of the Guppy Open Submission '23. Author of Evie and Maryam's Family Tree, out in May '25. Writer, 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, education policy nerd by day, mum of 3. I used to be a lot of things, but I'll always be cold. Rep'd by Paula Weiman at ASH Literary.
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Just finished this wonderfully warm, inclusive and captivating story of friendship and reconciliation, exploring historical events not often covered in British children’s fiction - highly recommended! @janeenhayat.bsky.social @guppybooks.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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maggiewomersley.bsky.social
obviously I'm telling all my writer friends to enter this.
uvcompetition.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices @uvcompetition.bsky.social · Jun 24
Submissions open NEXT WEEK for #UV26 - how's your manuscript looking?

Our amazing co-founder, author and editing guru @authorsaragrant.bsky.social has put together this helpful checklist to help decide if you're submission ready 👇

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a checklist with three check marks and a pencil on it
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June 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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If anyone here is still on X, I'd be very grateful if you could vote for me on @primaryschoolbc (vote via the pinned tweet on their profile) x.com/janeen_hayat...
Janeen Hayat on X: "Vote for me! I'm so pleased that Evie and Maryam has been chosen as one of the candidates in May's #PrimarySchoolBookClub . Head to @PrimarySchoolBC and vote in the pinned tweet! @guppybooks https://t.co/7P7dKng8pT" / X
Vote for me! I'm so pleased that Evie and Maryam has been chosen as one of the candidates in May's #PrimarySchoolBookClub . Head to @PrimarySchoolBC and vote in the pinned tweet! @guppybooks https://t.co/7P7dKng8pT
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May 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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mostlybooktalk.bsky.social
Great launch for @janeenhayat.bsky.social Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree. Folders with mysterious letters link the two girls and take them back to India and partition. History, friendship, identity and inheritance - a moving and absorbing read. #kidlitUK #readingforpleasure @guppybooks.bsky.social
Book cover for Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree Photo of Janeen Hayat at book launch, holding book and speaking
May 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
janeenhayat.bsky.social
There are a string of competitions coming up for unagented writers, including #UV26. This should be a really helpful workshop for putting in the best possible submission 👇🏽
uvcompetition.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices @uvcompetition.bsky.social · May 6
Thinking of entering #UV26? Join our three live Zoom webinars in June to help perfect your entry. Tickets giving access to all three are £30 for @scbwi.bsky.social members; £40 for non-members.

Keep following for more info, or book your place 👇
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May 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
janeenhayat.bsky.social
It's publication day for Evie and Maryam! I thought it would save anticlimactic, but it's really not. It's really very exciting! Links to a lovely @booktrust.org.uk review and where to buy 👇🏽
May 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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juliaedinger.bsky.social
It's publication day for Evie and Maryam's Family Tree!

If you need a gift for the middle grade readers in your life...

#MiddleGrade #ReadersOfBlueSky
May 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
janeenhayat.bsky.social
@uvcompetition.bsky.social is a free writing competition, run by lovely volunteers and involving some heavy hitters. Pass it on to any unagented writers in your life!
maggiewomersley.bsky.social Maggie Womersley @maggiewomersley.bsky.social · Apr 24
FREE Writing competition launch event! Join the six @uvcompetition.bsky.social judges on May 22nd as they reveal what they're hoping to discover from the next round of the highly regarded @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Competition for unpublished writers of kids/YA lit. See the UV website for more details!
April 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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FREE Writing competition launch event! Join the six @uvcompetition.bsky.social judges on May 22nd as they reveal what they're hoping to discover from the next round of the highly regarded @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Competition for unpublished writers of kids/YA lit. See the UV website for more details!
April 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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For the whole month of February, @bookshop-org.bsky.social is giving 10% of all sales to @booktrust.org.uk. What a great excuse to buy lots of books this month! Including, of course, pre-ordering Evie and Maryam 😉 (link below 👇🏽)
February 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I'm so proud to reveal the cover for Evie and Maryam! Debasmita Dasgupta did such a beautiful job of capturing E&M, and I just love the colours. @guppybooks.bsky.social @ashliterary.bsky.social @tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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tinyfairyhunter.bsky.social
Very excited to share the announcement for EVIE AND MARYAM'S FAMILY TREE! When I first read this book, I fell in love with the burgeoning friendship between these two girls, their complicated family history, and the coolest older brother in the world, and I hope you will too.
ashliterary.bsky.social ASH Literary @ashliterary.bsky.social · Jan 28
The news is out! @janeenhayat.bsky.social's middle grade debut, Evie and Maryam's Family Tree, will be published by Guppy on 8 May! It's a charming charming story full of code-breaking intrigue, forgotten family secrets, and the drama of pre-teen friendships. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/evie...
Guppy Books has signed a debut middle grade novel from Janeen Hayat, winner of the publisher's 2023 open submission competition. Bella Pearson, publisher, bought world rights from Paula Weiman at the Ash Literary Agency, for publication on 8 May. Evie and Maryam's Family Tree, inspired by Hayat's research into her family history, focuses on two classmates who sit on the same table at school - but that is all they have in common. Evie's friendship group are cool and outgoing, whereas Maryam is quiet, hard-working, and seems to prefer her own company. When the two are reluctantly paired for a school project - researching their family background - the girls discover that each has a copy of a mysterious folder called 'Family Recipes', written in a language neither understands. Pearson said: "I am so excited to be publishing Janeen's debut novel - she is such a wonderful writer and this story of two girls discovering the extraordinary coincidence of their joint family history is full of depth, wisdom and mystery - a unanimous winner in the eyes of the judges of the Guppy open submission competition, and a writer to watch out for!"
January 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
janeenhayat.bsky.social
It's official: Evie and Maryam will be released into the world on 8 May!
ashliterary.bsky.social ASH Literary @ashliterary.bsky.social · Jan 28
The news is out! @janeenhayat.bsky.social's middle grade debut, Evie and Maryam's Family Tree, will be published by Guppy on 8 May! It's a charming charming story full of code-breaking intrigue, forgotten family secrets, and the drama of pre-teen friendships. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/evie...
Guppy Books has signed a debut middle grade novel from Janeen Hayat, winner of the publisher's 2023 open submission competition. Bella Pearson, publisher, bought world rights from Paula Weiman at the Ash Literary Agency, for publication on 8 May. Evie and Maryam's Family Tree, inspired by Hayat's research into her family history, focuses on two classmates who sit on the same table at school - but that is all they have in common. Evie's friendship group are cool and outgoing, whereas Maryam is quiet, hard-working, and seems to prefer her own company. When the two are reluctantly paired for a school project - researching their family background - the girls discover that each has a copy of a mysterious folder called 'Family Recipes', written in a language neither understands. Pearson said: "I am so excited to be publishing Janeen's debut novel - she is such a wonderful writer and this story of two girls discovering the extraordinary coincidence of their joint family history is full of depth, wisdom and mystery - a unanimous winner in the eyes of the judges of the Guppy open submission competition, and a writer to watch out for!"
January 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM