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Involved with or interested in content for children and young people? We’re giving away 8 tickets (usual cost £708 each) to The Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield from 8-10 July! To enter, reshare this post and tag a writer friend ✍️🎟️ thechildrensmediaconference.com

Featuring Pete Stones and Patrick Cash from the Arts Council England Alan Bett from @creativescots and Leusa Llewelyn from Literature Wales With thanks our sponsor ALCS. societyofauthors.org/resource/fundi…

It's not too late! Repost the post below for the chance to win a ticket the Children's Media Conference next week 🎟️

"I’m writing a lot of the current book in a local café. I’m probably going to have to move house after this." We interviewed the brilliant Sathnam Sanghera about his process, writing on the British Empire, AI and his upcoming book on George Michael. alcs.co.uk/news/my-writin…

📣Just one week until we reveal the WINNERS of the 2025 #BranfordBoaseAward! Listen out 7.30pm Weds 9 July. In the meantime, read the Q&A interviews with our shortlisted authors & editors for fascinating insight into the creative process #writing #editing branfordboaseaward.org.uk/shortlist-2025/

Hey writers! Ever wonder what copyright really means for you? Let's break it down together, starting with Copyright Basics for Writers by the @alcs_uk: 🔗📚 alcs.co.uk/knowledge/copy… #CopyrightForWriters

Huge congrats to Kate summerscale for winning the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction for her work exploring a series of 1953 murders in 'The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place' 🏆🗡️

Reading is linked to a host of positive outcomes, yet just one in three children and young people (8-18) say they enjoy reading in their free time. This is a great initiative that we hope will get the UK reading again! 📚 #NationalYearOfReading2026

Tomorrow we will discover which of these outstanding debut writers for children and young people is winner of the 2025 #BranfordBoaseAward but we will be celebrating them all, tomorrow and no doubt into the future 🌟 #writing #kidlit branfordboaseaward.org.uk/shortlist-2025/

Great to be at the All Party Writers Group Summer Reception at the House of Commons. We heard about the Government's AI consultation and new research into screenwriters' earnings ✍️

Incoming ALCS chair Lord Tim Clement-Jones called for more powers for the 'freelance champion' at the All Party Parliamentary Writers Group Summer Drinks reception bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

What a shortlist, what a judging panel! Huge thanks to the 2025 #BranfordBoase judges Nicki Thornton, Rumena Aktar, Phoebe Demeger and Nathanael Lessore, who selected another outstanding shortlist. 📢Winner announced this evening! #writing #editing branfordboaseaward.org.uk/shortlist-2025/

"The Government must provide a sustainable route forward based on choice not compulsion" Check out our roundup of last night's All Party Writers Group reception 👇 alcs.co.uk/news/all-party…

Congratulations to the winners of the #BranfordBoaseAward 25 for author and editor of the outstanding debut novel for young people, editors Ama Badu and Alice Swan and author Margaret McDonald for GLASGOW BOYS branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2025-bba-winne…

We had a blast at the Branford Boase Award award, celebrating the best new writers for children and their editors. Congrats to Margaret McDonald and her editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu!🏆 alcs.co.uk/news/margaret-…

Huge thanks to the 2025 #branfordboaseaward judges Nicki Thornton Librarimum 📕🍉 Phoebe Demeger (mostly on hiatus) and Nathanael Lessore . Great discussions, great shortlist choices, and now great winner too 👏👏👏👏 branfordboaseaward.org.uk/2025-bba-winne…