Rob Walton

I’m on here, along with a host of brilliant writers who could make a real difference to your plans for the National Year of Reading. Many thanks to @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social for compiling this.

Delighted to get my hands on a copy of this verse novel by Brian Moses, illustrated by Bethan Welby and published by @scallywagpress.bsky.social Official publication day March 5th - this Thursday, World Book Day.

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. A bit grey. Then a bit sunny. But always loads of warmth. #parkrun #WhitleyBay

My daughter and her boyfriend forced me to spend the weekend drinking Bavarian beer. I will never forgive them. #Bavaria #Bayern #Germanbeer #Deutschland #Germany #bavariantourism

I recommend it. Lovely and friendly.

Thanks for the re-post! I’d forgotten about this one. 🐈 😊

Post-Westpark (München) Parkrun. I set off for #WhitleyBay but, half-asleep, I took a wrong turn at Seashells chippy. 🤷‍♂️ #parkrun #München @parkrunuk.bsky.social #deutschland #laufen

Delighted to appear on @RebeccaLeek_ ‘s Ditty Bag podcast. So pleased she read and said nice things about On Mice, a poem I really enjoyed writing - originally on the fab Tyger Tyger. Hear all at rebeccaleek.substack.com/p/episode-25

It nearly always does. Lifts the spirits!

Post-Whitley Bay parkrun. Mostly grey and a meh run for me, but the light over the headland made it all worthwhile. @parkrunuk.bsky.social #parkrun #WhitleyBay

Thrilled to appear alongside @stefankarlsson.bsky.social @attielime.bsky.social & Jacqueline on @brianmosespoet.bsky.social blog celebrating reading @nationalliteracytrust #goallin @booktrust.org.uk brian-moses.blogspot.com?m=1

Wonderful school visit yesterday - invited by a teacher with real passion for reading. School has a great library & librarian. I used a new poem, The Wheels on the Reading Bus, as a prompt. Y6 made it their own. (Poem to appear on Brian Moses’ blog.) Great start to National Year of Reading. #Goallin

Lovely to start the new year with another appearance in Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Flash Frontier. Thanks again to Michelle & team for supporting my writing. #flashfiction #microfiction flashfrontier.com/december-202...

Ive had a few nice acceptances recently for flash fictions and children’s poetry, but it’s great that people are still being kind about this. Thanks - always - to all at @theemmapress.bsky.social and @reenamakwana.bsky.social. And the School Reading List of course!
@schoolreadinglist.bsky.social

Great to be back on the scaryness express with some mild Yuletide peril. Lots more seasonal and other delights on the website. Thanks to Ian and the other editors.

Cover of Grumlyns on a dark blue background

When the moon is high, and the house is quiet… the Grumlyns come out to play! 🫟

Grumlyns is a riotous, rhyming, mischief-packed picture book from Fran & David Brylewski.

📆 Coming March 19th. Pre-order 👉 amzn.to/4a6juOf
#picturebooks

Always a pleasure to fly on The Dirigible Balloon. Lots of other lovely poems taking to the air. #kidlit #childrenspoetry #toast

Many thanks to School Reading List for placing our book on the fiction shortlist with lots of awesome titles. @reenamakwana.bsky.social Great time to buy with @theemmapress.bsky.social sale too. #kidlit #childrensficrion

It was International Cats Day in August. I’m pretty sure cats tend to do things in their own good time. #cats #internationalcatsday

Lovely to get direct feedback from children as part of the National Literacy Trust‘s Libraries for Primaries pupil voice project. Thanks to all children who took part - especially these three! @theemmapress.bsky.social

Thank you so much, Reena! I love these.

The cover of the FUEL ebook, with a large photo of a yellow petrol pump, below which are the words FUEL: An Anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, edited by Tania Hershman. There is a banner across the top right hand corner which says "Ebook with 12 Bonus Prize-Winning Stories!"

It's publication day for FUEL ebook—with 75 prizewinning flash fictions plus TWELVE bonus flash stories not in the print book! It's a great read *and* all profits go to UK fuel poverty charities. The print book raised over £4k; winter is coming, help us raise more: www.fuelflash.net/product/fuel...

Great book raising funds for a great cause.

Post- Whitley Bay parkrun as part of a 10K. Didn’t necessarily take the most direct route. The book on top of the pile has a Priory Lane stamp - a school in Scunthorpe I left fifty years ago. Finally got round to reading it,so now I can return it. #whitleybay #parkrun #scunthorpe

Post-parkrun coffee and words from @attielime.bsky.social and others. That there Bay was wonderfully windy today. #parkrun #whitleybay

Some excellent poems for Anti-Bullying Week at Brian Moses’ blogspot brian-moses.blogspot.com?m=1 #antibullyingweek #schools #edubluesky

Thanks, Christiana!

Thanks, Carmella!

Thank you, Clare!

Very good news! Hats off to
‘Rob Walton’ & brava to Reena Makwana and her fantastic illustrations.Especially big love and thanks to Emma, Georgia, James & now Ella (not forgetting Gosia!) @theemmapress.bsky.social The best publisher & people. NOW BUY THIS BOOK! #carnegies