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Read about Jenny Moore's experience of winning the October 2024 Slush Pile Challenge. Thank you to Millie van Grutten of RCW Literary Agency for setting and judging this competition. Words & Pictures SCBWI British Isles SCBWI Ireland SCBWI Europolitan wordsandpics.org/2025/06/slush-…

Congratulations to HigneyKate1 for winning the April 2025 Slush Pile Challenge. Thank you to Carolyn May McGlone of May Literary Agency for setting and judging this competition. Words & Pictures SCBWI British Isles SCBWI Ireland SCBWI Europolitan wordsandpics.org/2025/06/slush-…

In this issue: 👥SBWI FACES: Lucy Farfort 🎨FEAUTURED ILLUSTRATOR: Kristina Denadic 🪶SLUSH PILE CHALLENGE WINNER: Jenny Moore 🪶SLUSH PILE CHALLENGE: April 2025 Resultd 🎤OPENING LINES: June 2025 wordsandpics.org #illustration #childrensbooks #middlegrade SCBWI British Isles

What do all these books have in common? They were all entered in the Guppy Open Submission Competition!Don’t miss out, the entry week starts next Monday! Please retweet and spread the word! guppybooks.co.uk/its-that-time-…

👥SBWI FACES: Lauren Farfort 🎬SCWBI FACES goes behind the scenes to meet our volunteers!! This month Anne Boyère chats to Lucy Farfort, co-organiser of SCBWI North-East with Lynn Huggins-Cooper. #volunteers #childrensbooks #bts #scbwi #middlegrade scbwi SCBWI British Isles

Reminder - our next Belfast meet up takes place this Saturday 21st June 11.00-13.00 in Waterstone's cafe, Fountain St, Belfast. We'd love to see you!

We had a lovely morning at our Belfast social today. Good to see everyone, welcome new faces, celebrate with a Carnegie shortlisted writer and welcome Ann Paul to our meet up while on vacation.

Read about @CailaAttleya's experience of winning the January 2025 Slush Pile Challenge. Thank you to Laura Bennett of Liverpool Literary Agency for setting and judging this competition. Words & Pictures SCBWI British Isles SCBWI Ireland SCBWI Europolitan wordsandpics.org/2025/06/slush-…

There's still time to sign up for our SCBWI Ireland Zoom session - 'Let's Get Creative' taking place this Thursday evening from 7.30-8.30pm (Dublin time). We'd love to see you there - who knows what you might create? 😀

Get those manuscripts polished!!

Reminder! Our Cork social get-together takes place this Saturday. We'd love to see you there

Great turnout for the Cork social yesterday! Talking about indie & trad publishing, Golden Egg Academy, PLNs for books in libraries, the recent Irish Kids Books Symposium, the upcoming Children’s Books Ireland conference, inspiration, ideas & more. Thanks Colleen for organising

Get those manuscripts polished! UV is open!

New Words & Picture Out Now 🎉 wordsandpics.org #illustration #middlegrade #childrensbooks #magazines #youngadult #writing #authors #illustrators SCBWI British Isles SCBWI Illustrators SCBWI Ireland

Why writing strong scenes is critical to your story. Check our latest kid-lit advice in episode 12 of our PGTips. Gary Fabbri. FREE downloads youtu.be/UZeY15Klaxk SCBWI British Isles Barnsley Libraries SCBWI Ireland #kidlit #illustrationart #WriteForKids The Reading Agency はうはう

Great to read about HigneyKate1's experience of winning the Words and Pictures Slush Pile challenge earlier this year. Well done Kate 👏 Thanks to SCBWI British Isles for setting these challenges in Words and Pictures

🪶SLUSH PILE CHALLENGE: 📚Kate Higney Kate Higney, winner of the April 2025 Slush Pile Challenge, tells us why she entered the competition and about her experience of having feedback from Carolyn May McGlone! #WritingCommunity #april2025 #authors #magazine SCBWI British Isles scbwi

✍️FEATURE: 🌟Inspirations of a Storyteller Where does the inspiration for an inspiring story come from? Karen Barrett talks about all things that inspire a storyteller. #storytelling #inspiration #inspirational #WritingCommunity #authors #writers SCBWI Ireland scbwi SCBWI British Isles