Calling all #kidlit authors!

Over 600 authors, illustrators and educators have signed the statement.

MPs have tabled a motion that welcomes the statement. We hope that it may help strengthen the political will to end the conflict that.

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How am I writing a MG story set in ancient Sri Lanka, you ask? 🤔 ✍️ 📖 Not easily, but this #bookstack definitely helped 👇🏽

If you want to learn more about where the numbers and spices you use every day originally came from and how they got here, read these! 📚 🌏 ⛵️ 🌶️

#kidlit #history #indianocean

I've been longlisted for The Mo Siewcharran Prize 2025!! Can't believe it 😳 🤩 This year's theme is Reclaiming History 😊
Wishing best of luck to all authors. Thanks for all the workshop support #Trapezebooks #Orionbooks @hachetteuk.bsky.social @agentbal.bsky.social @paulaakpan.bsky.social

Any other historical fiction writers feel like this?! 🤔 ✍️ 📖 #kidlit #historicalfiction

What do I mean by "forgotten histories"? Those that are unknown by most people, aren't taught in many schools and don't get written or talked about enough. But they can be powerful in teaching us how we are more alike than different. And how history repeats itself (big time! 😳) /1

So excited to be selected as one of the 24 winners of the #LondonWritersAwards2025 - a 10-month development programme from @spread-the-word.bsky.social. I'll be one of 5 other #kidlit writers 😊 Can't wait!