@lizbick.bsky.social
Children's writer. Currently querying MG. Avid reader. SL Cheshire Novel Prize Kids 2024 LL 2022 New Writing North Children's award. GEA graduate. WriteMentor Hub member. #YNWA
Calling all aspiring children’s writers! ✨ WriteNow, Penguin Random House programme to seek out, nurture and publish writers from under-represented communities is back for its tenth year.
Applications close 7 January 2026. Apply or find out more here: https://shorturl.at/oZGpH
#BookHighlight | everything grows when you bury it
Debut poetry collection by Melissa Grindon, tracing the seasons of grief, growth, & renewal
✨ Fun fact: Melissa was our #PulpIdol 22 Champion, and we couldn’t be prouder of her journey!
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04.11.2025 09:47 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Coming soon - episode 1 of The Tortured Writers Podcast wherever you get your podcasts on 8th November 2025! Tag a friend and follow us to win a pre-order of @willrdean new book #Adrift out February 2026. #TheTorturedWritersPodcast #writers #writingpodcast #WritingCommun
25.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🌟 Dive into Natalie Denny's world of Keisha Jones! 🌟
Get ready for a thrilling ride with Natalie Denny’s Keisha Jones series, packed with heart, humor, and unforgettable twists.
✨ Don’t miss out!
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New #writingcourse from @amysparkes.bsky.social 📝
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-mi...
#writingcommunity #amwriting #middlegrade
Fancy another alternate reads poster? There’s a wealth of brilliant children’s books around memories and/or intergenerational relationships so instead of reading Grandpa’s Great Escape, here are some alternatives. Which other books would you include? #kidlituk
24.08.2025 18:50 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 2Free #liverpool event for kids! Book signing plus a chance for kids to author their own stories, taking inspiration from folk tales, fairy tales and mytholoygy: www.waterstones.com/events/ashle...
22.08.2025 15:42 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Aw, love that photo. #Salah
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Calling all new Year 7s!! Want to know what secondary school is really like? 📚 🏫 🎓
Try seeing it through the eyes of grumpy trainee angel Phoebe Speedwell 🪽 as she embarks on her first top-secret mission and arrives on the first day of school...
#kidlituk #MG #funnybooksforkids #schoollife 🧵 (1/3)
£2 PAPERBACK!
If you want a MG Sc-Fi adventure for the younger readers in your life, the Ghosts of Mars paperback is currently only £2 on Amazon!
Literally never been cheaper for a physical book!
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Congrats!! 🎉🥳 Very exciting!
29.07.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@londonbessie.bsky.social Thank you for a great workshop tonight. Brilliant ideas!
23.07.2025 19:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Loved this book!
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This week's #middlegrade is Tidemagic: The Many Faces of Ista Flit by #ClareHarlow. It's a twisty, atmospheric mystery with lots of great imagination and characters, and I really enjoyed it – more here!👇
alastairc.com/i-am-reading...
@penguinukbooks.bsky.social #IAmReading #KidLitUk #Tidemagic
Two fantastic books by @alastairc.com Highly recommend! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
#amreading
Devastated
03.07.2025 09:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The children were very excited to start reading this book today. @seftonlibraries.bsky.social @cressidacowell.bsky.social #amreading
28.06.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Table set for our Book Club this morning! Thank you @hachettechildrens.bsky.social @cressidacowell.bsky.social
28.06.2025 15:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Totally agree. Loved Rebel. 🐶
20.06.2025 18:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to run this #writingclass on Key Moments on 1st July 7pm BST, exploring:
What key moments are
Why they're important
When they're most effective
The relationship between key moments & readers
Using them in plot, character, emotion & theme
For more info:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-ke...
Oh, no. Sorry it's ending.
19.06.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On 25.06 ,we have our first free Brunel Uni online publishing webinar with editors Joelle Owusu from #MerkyBooks, @samjordison.bsky.social from @galleybeggars.bsky.social and Katie Bowden from @4thestatebooks.bsky.social Register here to demystify publishing: www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-e...
18.06.2025 10:45 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Pleased to share I've joined this century and now have a website - for books, events, news and all that stuffs, visit emilyrandall-jones.com
11.06.2025 08:58 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
3 signed copies of my brand new middle grade adventure, A Place of a Thousand Wishes to be won. RT and follow @everywithwords.bsky.social by midnight 17th June
#MG #kidlit #kidlituk #UKKidlit #booksky #childrensbooks #bookgiveaway
Poster with details on about the Bootle Library Writing Group
Are you interested in writing? Do you want to make new friends and gain feedback about your work? Well, Bootle library has a regular writing group each Thursday in the Pod. 10.30am until 12.30pm. Over eighteens. You can bring any genre of writing and drop in as often as you like. ✏️💻
05.06.2025 11:09 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Yay!! Very exciting! 🥳
19.05.2025 13:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
the cover of left in the ashes by anna britton
So happy to be part of the cover reveal for Book 3 in the Martin and Stern Series - Left In The Ashes by @brittonbookgeek.bsky.social
Available to preorder here - geni.us/RpPg2M it's released on September 18th - I can't wait to read it!
It’s publication day! 🍩🥳 Thank you to everyone who helped get this book out there into the world. My wonderful agent Silvia from PFD Agents. My fantastic editor @zoegriffiths.bsky.social and the whole incredible team @nosycrowus.bsky.social and Marina Tena Borras for the stunning cover. #kidslit
08.05.2025 09:28 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3Yay!! 🎉 Congrats! Brilliant news.
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