Leave a Comment · Posted on June 19, 2020
Writing Picture Books
Curious to see what it takes to write a children’s picture book manuscript? Or wondered what an editor will be looking for?
Join Emma Layfield, Hachette’s Picture Book Development Director, North, to explore the exciting world of picture book writing.
Leave a Comment · Posted on June 18, 2020
Me, Arvon & Claudia Jones
When I heard about the Arvon Writing for Performance with Communities retreat, I was so excited. It sounded like just what I was looking for – new ways to develop as a writer but also as a practitioner and facilitator of others…
Leave a Comment · Posted on June 8, 2020
Cultivating Gratitude in Uncertain Times
While all of these massive life adjustments are having many negative ramifications, the space lockdown has created away from our modern lives can give us access to unexpected silver linings hiding in the darkest of the quarantine clouds.
Leave a Comment · Posted on June 1, 2020
School’s Out – Ada Urbaniak
In the light of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ada Urbaniak reflects on the pressures and strains of secondary school academia and life… Speculation rose through the classroom days before the official announcement: that schools would soon close all across England in an effort to slow the transmission of COVID-19.
Leave a Comment · Posted on June 23, 2020
The Hive New Writers Prize
Hive have teamed up with Sheffield Year of Reading on this fab competition offering writers and non-writers of all ages a creative outlet over the next few months….