Farrah Riaz

Farrah Riaz

@farrahriaz.bsky.social

London writer ✨ picture book The Twirly Wiggly Dance available now to buy✨ #WritingCommunity #2024debut Insta: farr.ahriaz

199 Followers 298 Following 20 Posts Joined Dec 2024
10 months ago
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@mariesadulak.bsky.social congratulations on your lovely new book. I ♥️ the story’s message about animals needing our compassion, respect and care & the strength of human connection, showing how understanding and love can inspire us to do what’s right—for each other and for the world around us.

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11 months ago

You can make a change 📢 Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training by signing this open letter ✒️ authr.uk/sp40 #MakeitFair #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing

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11 months ago

Yay!!!!🥳

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11 months ago

Ooo what a great selection!! Congrats everyone 😁 and special shoutout to fellow #2024Debuts
@zeenagos.bsky.social @sharadakeats.bsky.social 😊♥️
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11 months ago

Well done / so well deserved!! ♥️♥️

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11 months ago

10 book deal!!!! 🥳🥳Congratulations @jolyons.bsky.social Your wonderful #RomCom stories are a pleasure to read- with wonderful characters. Can’t wait for @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social to start releasing them 🥰😍⬇️⬇️⬇️

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11 months ago

👀 New Loki book ⬇️
#ukkidlit

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11 months ago

Thanks for the boost @louiestowell.bsky.social 😊

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11 months ago
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Join me at Pickled Pepper on Saturday, 29th March @2pm for a fun filled afternoon with an interactive story session -fun activities, and crafting! ⬇️

Book tickets : www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/collections/...

#ukkidlit #childrenevents #authorevents

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1 year ago
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Objection to the Government's Proposed Copyright Exemption for Generative AI Training To add your name to this letter, please fill and submit the form at the bottom. Wednesday 12th February 2025: We are some among the 2.4 million working in the UK creative industries. We are staring i...

AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS please add your name to this open letter against the modification of our copyright law in favour of AI!
#kidlitUK #HandsOffOurCopyright

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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1 year ago

And I joined the library! Double hurrah. ♥️
#libraries #reading #ukkidlit

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1 year ago

Oo yes please- I’d like to be added. ♥️

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1 year ago
"Virtual author visit with Alex Falase-Koya. Wednesday 12 March at 11am for years 3 & 4." Plus the logos of BookTrust Represents and Enterprise Mobility, a photo of Alex Falase-Koya smiling with a hedge in the background, and the front cover of The Breakfast Club Adventures

We're thrilled that our next #BookTrustRepresents virtual author visit is with Alex Falase-Koya!

Join us on 12 March for a super session with Alex, ideal for Years 3 and 4 - plus, 60 registered schools will receive 60 free books.

Book your spot now 👇

www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p...

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1 year ago
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🌟I’ll be doing a #thetwirlywigglydance #storytime at the newly refurbished Burnt Ash Library -Bromley Libraries on Saturday 22 February⭐️🌟💫

Come join us for the reopening 😊

www.better.org.uk/library/lond...
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1 year ago

Brilliant!! Thank you for having me. I learnt so much and it was lovely having the children interact with the story. Wonderful. 😁♥️

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1 year ago
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💫#ukkidlit #picturebooks The Space Between, is a beautiful book about #moving houses and learning to appreciate the spaces between what’s passed and what’s to come. Time is a gift and to enjoy every stage written @clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social illustrated by Fiona Lumbers @andersenpress.bsky.social

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1 year ago
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Booklovers' Retreats Luxury Bookish Getaways

⭐️ BOOK NOW -READING RETREAT MAY 2025 Cosy Crime Edition 09/05/25-12/05/25
Idyllic getaway in Cornwall
“All meals cooked for you and you can just relax, chat about your favourite books, joined by author guests and your fellow book lovers”.
bookloversretreats.com
#reading #luxuryretreats #bookclubs

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1 year ago

Can’t wait to read it ♥️😁⬇️ @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social

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1 year ago

So proud to announce that my new picture book will be out in the states on the first week of February. Little Rhino Lost, written by me, Candy Gourlay, and illustrated by Jamie Bauza, published by Crocodile Books.

UK: Out in March published by
@otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

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1 year ago

Oh yes, it’s brilliant to read aloud. So much fun doing all the different voices and meeting the delightful characters #2024debuts Book2 OUT NOW Book3 out November 2025. 😁🥳⬇️

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1 year ago

@jofranklinbooks.bsky.social 😳 crikey.
Im bringing chocolate 🍫 that’s what writers need too 😀

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1 year ago

Congrats 🥳

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1 year ago
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And here they are! We're incredibly pleased and proud of this selection and we can't wait to hear what pupils think of them! #Spark2025Shortlist 📚❤️✨

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1 year ago
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@catherinebruton.bsky.social and I celebrating BIRDBOY’S shortlisting for the NERO Book Awards with a sneaky coffee and cake !! #kidlit #mglit #prizes #readingforpleasure #literacy

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1 year ago

Defo one of the best episodes!! So good. 😊 we’re just about to watch uncloaked now 😁

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1 year ago
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🌨️ Flow with the Snow, by Oliver Averill and me, has been awarded the @booksfortopics.bsky.social Book of the Year for KS1 Curriculum Support and shortlisted for the @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social Picture Book of the Year! Download teaching resources here ⬇️
www.roberttregoning.com/activity-she... ❄️

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1 year ago
The Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2025 Enter The Macmillan Prize for Illustration 2025 here.


The Macmillan Prize for Illustration is awarded for an unpublished children’s picture book. Submissions are open (UK residents only) for 2025!

www.panmacmillan.com/mac-prize-en...

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1 year ago
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✨My first post 😊
I’m a #2024debuts with my first #picturebooks The Twirly Wiggly Dance - 💃🏻 🕺 illustrations are gorgeous and done by Navya Raju ♥️ and we published with Oxford University Press.🥳

I have lots of stories simmering in the background and meanwhile here to support the #WritingCommunity 👋✨

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