THREAD: Today we open submissions for #JhalakPrize2025 with an expanded portfolio of THREE awards including the inaugural #JhalakPoetryPrize along with our extraordinary panels of judges. These shall be our ninth awards and we could never have foreseen this journey!

EXCITED & honoured to be a judge for the brilliant Jhalak Prize Children’s & Young Adult category for 2025! 🤩🤩🤩 can’t wait to get reading!

NEWS! We’re hosting a webinar, with #FightingFantasy author Sir Ian Livingstone, interviewed by our 2020 mentee Iqbal Hussain #NorthernBoy If the words ‘YOU are the hero!’ swiftly followed by gruesome death, send you right back to childhood, this is for you!Book now: tinyurl.com/35n7h6r6

A huge honour to be asked by Darren Chetty & Karen Sands-O'Connor to do a cover for their book Beyond the Secret Garden. Pub'd by English & Media Ctr & based on their well loved Books for Keeps column. An attempt to depict what my own experience of trying to get into the industry felt like

🚨 GRAPHIC NOVEL NEWS🚨 I'm so excited to announce my first ever YA graphic novel, 'Black Dolls: Volume 1 ', out next JULY 2025 with the amazing artist @normallyblue! #jointherevolution You can add it on Goodreads here: goodreads.com/book/show/2162… Hachette Children's Group

I'm interviewing Ian Livingstone on Mon 7 Oct! Webinar by Megaphone Write , where I was a mentee in 2020. If the words "YOU are the hero" strike a chord with you, come and join us. Tickets are FREE! Fighting Fantasy Adventure Gamebooks #FightingFantasy @unbounders Book now: tinyurl.com/35n7h6r6

The imagery here really strikes home!

.@unbounders fantastic debut author of #NorthernBoy, Iqbal Hussain #NorthernBoy will be interviewing his childhood hero - fellow Unbound author Ian Livingstone, creator of the bestselling Fighting Fantasy Adventure Gamebooks series. Thank you Megaphone Write for making this beautiful full circle happen.🌈📣🙏🏼

Grabbed a screenshot before the brief status disappears. Dream Hunters a bestseller (in a niche category I admit!) over on the big river site!

I wrote OUR FAMILY FARM for Oxford University Press Oxford Primary about 9 year old Ama and her family's greenhouse farm in Ghana. Part of the Readerful Series, borrow it from your local library. Ask the library to get it if they don't have a copy. #Readerful #RaiseAReader

You can book your free place now - Iqbal Hussain #NorthernBoy will be talking all things Fighting Fantasy with the gamebooks' creator.

Sid Sagar does an amazing job bringing Rafi to life on the audiobook of #NorthernBoy. I have FREE copies if you fancy a listen! For a chance to win, just RT. I'll pick 3 winners this Sunday 23 Sep. Here's a short sample: shorturl.at/P5yyh . Thank you W. F. Howes Ltd @unbounders

I’m proud to be part of the Oxford Primary social media celebration of their new #Readerful series! My book in the series is all about a girl called Zaynab and her passion for tigers 🐅 #RaiseAReader

Is it petty of me to keep repeating that this beautiful movie by DreamWorks Animation is based on my book? The team of artists + animators + designers did an outstanding job + I want people to know that my book was the inspiration! Is that wrong? This is all new for me! #thewildrobot

Library Zines are go! 2000 FREE Brum Library Zines are winging their way to Birmingham libraries this week. Keep your eyes peeled! 👀 (and while you’re waiting, head to Birmingham Loves Libraries to join the campaign!)

We can't wait! Our Voce Books event in Birmingham next Thursday 26 Sept will be opened with poems by Nine Arches Press Primers longlistee Dr Catherine Redford, co-founder of the Poetry Hotel Beth (please give me attention) 👁 and Uni of Birmingham's Redbrick culture editor Ilina Jha!

I'm really proud to have a poem celebrating @hallgreenlib in the Brum Library Zine Every page celebrates a different library, with writing given by authors who love the city. We need our libraries! @savebirmingham Birmingham Culture Birmingham Arts Birmingham Loves Libraries

Always a joy to find #NorthernBoy among the shelves. This time Waterstones Birmingham on a recent visit to our second city. #Birmingham @unbounders

✈️ SWEDEN TO UK FOR DANCE JUST LIKE SO! BOOK TOUR 💃🏾🥳🌍 LOCATIONS: -26/9 Launch Party RoundTableBookstore - LONDON -28/9 The Book Nook - HOVE -29/9 Mr B's Emporium - BATH -29/9 Bath Children's Literature Festival - BATH -30/9 Maxminervas.bsky.social + 2 schools -BRISTOL Contd…⬇️

Some of the most supportive people I've met in the #WritingCommunity over the last 3 years have been from All Stories *updates only* and Megaphone Write. So glad I was able to say hi today to Catherine Coe, NickiMarshalledits (she/her), Nazima Pathan, Stephanie King 🌈❄ IS NO LONGER HERE., Leila Rasheed - not active here and Emma Zipfel