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✍️ #SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! We couldn’t wait any longer — submissions are officially open! 🎉 We’re excited to discover fresh voices and we can’t wait to see what you’ve been working on. 📩 Head over to our website to check the submission guidelines and send us your manuscript!

TYGER is released today in the USA! It's an extraordinary moment for me to see the book published there - I hope it will find readers, and bring them sparks of hope & light. Dave McKean's incredible art still takes my breath away - thank you Penguin Kids! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753600/t…

The 2025 Exeter Novel Prize is now open for submissions. It has a new home at wordkitchen.org.uk/exeter-novel-p… Click for more information, rules and how to enter. Good luck!

I can’t believe that tomorrow is the third anniversary of Times Tables Ninja (Key Stage 2) being published! To celebrate, I’m giving away a copy of the book. To enter, please follow me and like and retweet this tweet. UK only. Entries close on Sunday 13th July at midday.

18 years off the ale/drugs today. More importantly, 18 years since I made the decision, then put the action in, to stop being a completely selfish bastard. We all need a hand up now and again. My mate Rebecca McGrath wrote this for her Uni work: rebeccamcgrathblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/eve… 1/11

We know it's small fry, given the state of the world right now, but our new album is out on Friday. We're releasing it via our own label, and we make no bones about saying we really want as many people to hear it as possible.. Save it here: ditto.fm/this-blue-earth

Good lord.

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THIS BLUE EARTH - OUT TODAY theshipbuilders.bandcamp.com/album/this-blu…

A strong first page = a page-turning story ✅ A weak first page = risk of DNF ❌ I spend hours workshopping the first page with my clients because it's that important. Here are 7 common mistakes on your first page that could be sabotaging your story — and exactly how to fix

People with SOD1 MND don’t have time to wait. #PrescribeLife 📍Parliament Square Gardens, Westminster

Is anyone seriously saying the average 16 and 17 year old is less capable of making a rational decision than these Brexit voters?

Are you a UK poet looking for a publishing and mentoring opportunity? Enter PRIMERS 8. What's our selecting editor Laurie Bolger looking for? Read her blog for encouragement, tips & motivation: ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/06/primer… Full PRIMERS submission criteria ninearchespress.com/primers

3 months of no art/print sales, very humbling, equally, worrying & hard to admit. We’re living in unprecedented times! Your support keeps my arty flame lit. If you can retweet this post for my art to travel thru twitter, maybe a painting will find a beautiful home. Thanks kindly.

✨✨ WIN!!! ✨✨ We’re giving away a bundle of Katherine Rundell books to 1 lucky winner! To enter: 📚 Like 📚 RT by 31.08.25 📚 Get more entries at Instagram.com/authorfy 📚 UK only And do check out Katherine’s Author Masterclass at Authorfy.com/masterclasses for downloadable

This is one to watch! 📖😍

It's the summer holidays, which means that I have **two copies** of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Simply **retweet** this tweet for your chance to win a copy. I will pick two winners on Sunday 17th August. Good luck!

There was a dream that was Rome... 15 ancient wonders of the Eternal City 🧵