Events
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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 Whether you’re an editor or an agent, in publicity or production, a librarian or a bookseller, a published or unpublished author, there has never been a...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 The competition is open to all unpublished and unagented children’s writers living in the UK & the EU.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...
Readers Awards
You’re invited to a Books Are My Bag Readers Awards virtual ceremony on Tuesday 11th November at 5.30pm. This ceremony is hosted by Grace Dent and is sponsored by National Book Tokens. Watch @BooksAreMyBag on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. To find out more about...
Richmond Lit Fest 2020
Richmond Lit Fest is back and runs from 6th – 27th November. This year the festival features a series of socially distanced events at venues across Richmond and Twickenham as well as online events. The Children, Young People and Families line-up is a fantastic...
Your Invitation to CLiPPA 2020
This year CLiPPA are doing things a little differently but with all of the usual poetry and great guests! The poetry show will be presented by this year’s judges; Valerie Bloom, Steve Camden, Tracey Guiry (The Poetry Archive) and CLPE’s Charlotte Hacking....
Bookshop Day
We are delighted to announce that this year’s Bookshop Day is on Saturday, 3rd October. Bookshop Day is all about supporting local bookshops so do keep an eye on what your local bookshop is up to. We are expecting lots of exciting events all around the country....
Book Launch
You are invited to a book launch on Saturday, 5th September. The Alligator’s Mouth bookshop in Richmond, Surrey is hosting a launch event for ‘Cally and Jimmy: Twins in Trouble’ by Zoe Antoniades. Zoe will be there from 11am – 3pm to sign...
World Kid Lit Month
It’s World Kid Lit Month and to celebrate World Kid Lit are broadcasting two Facebook Live events to discuss books in translation. One takes place on Wednesday, 2nd September and the next one is on Wednesday, 30th September. To find out more go to...
Online Festival for New Authors
A group of debut authors are to create an online festival to share stories from different stages of the writing process, and how to get published. Diary of a Debut Novelist will run every Wednesday throughout September, beginning on the 2nd at 7.30 p.m., in...
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…
