Events
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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...
Empathy Day Evening Event
Empathy Day’s flagship evening event takes place at 7.15pm on 9th June. All welcome and feel free to join them. It’s a fascinating cross-disciplinary discussion between the Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell, author Muhammad Khan, and psychologist Professor Robin...
Independent Bookshop Week
Independent Bookshop Week 2020 will take place 20 – 27 June. Naturally this year’s campaign will look rather different to previous years with a social/online focus and encouragement for consumers to place orders with indies for delivery. Independent Bookshop...
Empathy Day 2020
This year’s Empathy Day is on 9th June. Empathy is a learnable skill and Empathy Day was founded to help us all understand and experience its transformational power. From The Empathy Lab, “We have now announced our plans, designed to have a huge impact in...
Hay Festival for Schools
Hay have announced their free Digital Programme for Schools which runs from 18–22 May and replaces their cancelled Hay Festival 2020 Programme for Schools which was due to take place on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 May. Specially curated schools days, blending...
Meet Jon Agee
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet the one and only Jon Agee on Monday, October 7th, 7-9pm, for an evening of chat, drinks and maybe a signed book or two. Agee has been creating picture books for the better part of three and a half decades, from 1982 Santa tale...
Picture Book Day
SCBWI Pulse is presenting a Picture Book Day on Saturday 5th October, 9.30am – 4pm. The day takes place at the fabulous CLPE headquarters in Webber Street near Waterloo Station and is for both writers and illustrators. A great range of guest speakers will cover...
The Bookseller Children’s Conference 2019
The Bookseller Children’s Conference is coming up on Monday, 23rd September. The theme this year is ‘The Big Tent: Publishing for Everyone in Today’s Divided World’. In today’s divided world how can we ensure that all children have access...
The Power of Pictures
Join CLPE to be one of the first people to hear outcomes of their recent research about the value of picture books and illustration in developing children’s literacy skills. Featuring a great line-up of speakers including Waterstones UK Laureate, Lauren Child...
Undiscovered Voices
Are you a children’s book writer waiting to be discovered? Undiscovered Voices could be the opportunity for you. This is a competition for unpublished, unagented children’s fiction writers living in the UK and EU. Undiscovered Voices (from SCBWI) are searching for the...
The Empathy Conversation
The Empathy Lab are holding a discussion forum with a leading psychologist, children’s author, and poet. Join them at Waterstones Piccadilly, to hear Malorie Blackman, Joseph Coelho and Professor Robin Banerjee exploring how literature builds children’s empathy...
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…
