emma layfield
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Director of @CBNAgency and @books_north Board trustee @7stories Based Manchester.
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https://linktr.ee/childrensbooksnorthagency 25-09-2014 08:32:01
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#Manchester, don't miss this incredible event at BlackwellsManchester with Tawseef Khan 📚Ashley Thorpe (Updates Only) and Aniefiok 'Neef' Ekpoudom on 2nd June: eventbrite.co.uk/e/jhalak-prize…
A magical Children’s Books North Network network takeover day Grimm & Co 6 fantastic author/illustrator events with CBNN members Dapo Adeola, Kate Pankhurst, Mark Bradley, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Ruth Awolola, Josh Silver, Ashley Thorpe and the wonderful Liz Scott joined us to chair an event too.❤️
What a way to the end the day at the wonderful Grimm & Co with Children’s Books North Network If you haven’t been, GO!!! I could not speak more highly of this place and the work they do to change children’s lives one story at a time. And you get to slide down a beanstalk! ❤️📚
Delighted to announce our 2025 winners: 1. Jhalak Children's & Young Adult Prize: Nathanael Lessore for #KingofNothing (Hot Key Books ✨📚) 2. Jhalak Poetry Prize: Mimi Khalvati for #CollectedPoems (Carcanet Press) 3. Jhalak Prose Prize: N.S. Nuseibeh for #Namesake (Canongate (has left))
Norman’s first book launch today for Bethan Clarke Snarky Sharky in Macclesfield! 🐶 🦈 Illustrated by the fabulous Nikolas Ilic and published by Little Tiger Books
🔈Children’s Books North Network Children’s Books North Network has some BIG news to share tomorrow! Stayed tuned... 🔈 #CBNN #Announcement #AllWillBeRevealed #ComingSoon
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow over at Children’s Books North Network 👇👇👇
🔈 The news is out!! 🔈 Children’s Books North Network Children’s Books North Network is launching the first prize for aspiring picture book writers and illustrators based in the North. Funded by Arts Council England and Manchester Metropolitan Uni and in partnership with the fabulous New Writing North 📚❤️
Lovely piece in the The Bookseller today about sales of books in the north. I was so nervous about the reception of The List of Suspicious Things in Yorkshire and I’m so bloody happy that it was a warm one. #booktwitter
So delighted to finally announce the Children’s Books North Network Prize in partnership with New Writing North A big thanks to The Bookseller for covering it in their Northern Powerhouse edition out today! 📚
The Northern Powerhouse Focus is here! Featuring: • Interviews with Iqbal Hussain #NorthernBoy, Sarah Hall, M.W. Craven & The Poetry Business by me, Lauren Brown, Bella 🌹 & timrelf • Comment pieces from Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow & Bradford 2025 • News from Children’s Books North Network & L J Ross
Looking forward to putting my pinny on tomorrow to serve joyfully in the Maurice Dobson Museum tearoom. We’re open from 10.00-14.00 and like the country music jukebox, we’re Cash Only. See you there!
