Events
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Illustration Exhibition
This year the annual Cambridge MA Children’s Book Illustration Graduation Exhibition takes place from 14th – 18th February, 10am to 6pm. There is a private view on Thursday, 16th February from 6 – 8pm. The exhibition is being held at Candid Gallery,...
London Book Fair 2023
London Book Fair 2023 will run from 18th – 20th April and will take place at Olympia Exhibition Centre, London. Meet the ‘who’s who’ of the publishing industry as LBF gathers together exhibitors and guests from across the globe. London Book...
SCBWI Conference
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators announces the programme for their first Northern conference, to be held on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th November 2022 at Manchester Metropolitan University, Business School building. There’s something for...
Festival of Stories
The Inaugural ‘Great Malvern Festival of Stories for Children’ will take place from Thursday 20 October – Sunday 23 October 2022 in a number of venues. The Festival promises to be a celebration of stories and storytelling, featuring an exciting programme of...
Carnegie Event
The Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards for outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration has partnered with The Reading Agency to host two virtual shortlist events for young readers this May. Each of the free interactive events, the #YotoCarnegieLIVE and...
Kate Greenaway Event
The Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards for outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration has partnered with The Reading Agency to host two virtual shortlist events for young readers this May. Each of the free interactive events, the #YotoCarnegieLIVE and...
Masterclass for Illustrators
Creating appealing, engaging and authentic characters is essential to making successful picture books. In this one-day masterclass with the award-winning Dapo Adeola (Look Up!) and acclaimed illustrator Chanté Timothy, you’ll explore character case studies, and use...
London Book Fair
Next week is London Book Fair, running from 5th – 7th April at London Olympia. Our sister company, Wacky Bee Books, will be showcasing their books on the MMS stand, 1B10 in the children’s publishing section, so feel free to swing by and take a look....
London Book Fair
London Book Fair has announced its Author HQ events programme for 2022 promising “a range of inspiring content from authors and industry experts”. London Book Fair runs from Tuesday 5th to Thursday 7th April at London Olympia. More details here...
Illustration Exhibition
The annual Cambridge MA children’s book illustration graduate exhibition opened today and runs until 19th February. The exhibition is taking place at Candid Arts Trust Gallery, 3 Torrens Street, London EC1V 1NQ, 10am to 6pm. Students of the course have regularly...
Book Launch
Head over to The Alligator’s Mouth bookshop in Richmond on Saturday 26th February, 2pm-4pm. Author, Zoe Antoniades, is returning to the shop to celebrate the launch of the third book in the Cally & Jimmy series:Twins Together. Zoe is also running a GoFundMe...
Reality Check
Available from 11.30am on Weds 2nd March. Featuring £1 book authors Ben Bailey Smith, Sharna Jackson, and Rashmi Sirdeshpande, students will learn about creating realist fiction or writing non-fiction on topical issues. This event will be available to watch on the...
Using Your Imagination
World Book Day 2022 kicks off on Thursday, 3rd March. Virtual event Using Your Imagination will be available to watch on the WBD website or on YouTube from 10am. No registration is needed. Featuring £1 book authors Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola, Simon Farnaby, Michael...
Championing the Short Story
Independent press Scratch Books, “dedicated to the art of the short story”, is to launch in London in March, kicking off with an event featuring authors including Irenosen Okojie and Sarah Hall. Its first title, Reverse Engineering, features seven short...
Workshop: Editing a Novel
Learn how to edit and publish an award-winning novel with A.M.Dassu. Thursday February 17th, 18.30 – 20.30, online. Dassu will show you what it takes to get published. From reading within your genre, to the importance of critique, editing, rewriting, submitting...
In Conversation with Beverley Naidoo
Join award-winning children’s author, Beverley Naidoo, on Wednesday 20th October, 7 -8pm. Hear her discuss her Carnegie Medal-winning novel, The Other Side of Truth, and its story of Nigerian refugee children in the UK. The conversation will look at the...
EmpathyLab Training
If you work in a school or public library and believe the world needs more empathy, the EmpathyLab have just the training course for you. Join them across two half days and learn how to use books to develop empathy skills and understanding in children and young...
Wokingham Children’s Book Festival
The Wokingham Children’s Book Festival will be held on the weekend of Saturday October 16th to Sunday October 17th. This is a two day festival where you can meet and listen to talks by authors of children’s books. Learn about the process of writing and have a lot of...
Success Stories
Over the past 20 years we have been instrumental in helping writers find their place with publishers, whether directly or indirectly. The following is just a handful of our success stories…
