Events
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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...
Development Week 2021
Each year, BookTrust Represents offers free industry training to aspiring/emerging authors and illustrators of colour. With a mix of workshops, advice clinics and expert Q&As, the training sessions are hosted by well-known children’s book authors and illustrators...
The Bookseller Children’s Conference
This year the Bookseller Children’s Conference is virtual again and runs from 20th – 23rd September. Whether you’re an editor or an agent, in publicity or production, a librarian or a bookseller, a published or unpublished author, there has never been a...
London Book Fair Online
The London Book Fair has unveiled the full programme for its Online Book Fair, with seminars, panel debates and author events taking place from 21st June to 1st July. Topics covered diverse include diverse narratives, sustainable publishing, children’s access to...
Comics Club Special
The Alligator’s Mouth is hosting a guest author Comics Club special with Phil Corbett on June 24th, celebrating his new book, Kitty Quest! Dog Man meets the Lord of the Rings in this laugh-out-loud graphic novel debut about two aspiring adventurers who face off...
Undiscovered Voices 2022
Submissions for Undiscovered Voices 2022 opens on 14th June. The competition is open to all unpublished and unagented children’s writers living in the UK & the EU. For more details got to their website.
Independent Bookshop Week
With bookshops reopening across the country we are delighted to announce that Independent Bookshop Week 2021 will take place Saturday 19th June – Saturday 26th June. The shortlist for the Indie Book Awards will be announced on Friday 14th May. The winners will be...
Empathy Day 2021
Empathy Day LIVE! 2021 is taking place on 10 June, with a stunning line-up of children’s authors and illustrators, including Jacqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Michael Morpurgo, Patrice Lawrence, Michael Rosen and David Baddiel. The theme is walking in someone...
Barnes Literary Festival
Bestselling children’s authors Julia Donaldson and Sir Michael Morpurgo will open the Barnes Children’s Literature Festival on 26th June, the first festival to return as a physical event since the lockdowns. The event will return as planned with a primary...
Author Event
We’ve got a treat for you coming up on 20 April – an event with Jenny Pearson, whose book The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates is in The EmpathyLab’s 2021 book collection. Organised by Authors Aloud and Usborne, it features EmpathyLab’s founder, Miranda...
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…
