Linus from the Peanunts comic strip shouting, "If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."

let us not forget

UNDISCOVERED VOICES Meet the Judges Words and Pictures is the online magazine of SCBWI British Isles.

Excellent update on all things @uvcompetition.bsky.social from committee deputy chair @maggiewomersley.bsky.social in the latest issue of @scbwi-bi.bsky.social Words and Pictures including:

👉 Meet the judges
👉 Masterclass details
👉 Info on limited FREE places

tinyurl.com/nhcj48y4 #UV26

Graphic showing the five collections shortlisted for the CLiPPA 2025, CLPE Children's Poetry Award. They are: Wise Up! Wise Down! by John Agard and JonArno Lawson, illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura, Walker Books Let Sleeping Cats Lie, Brian Bilston, Macmillan Colossal Words for Kids by Colette Hiller, illustrated by Tor Freeman, Frances Lincoln Big Red Dragon by Jane Newberry, illustrated by Carolina Rabei, Otter-Barry Books We Are Family by Oliver Skyes, illustrated by Ian Morris, Otter-Barry Books

“Five new poetry collections, each with their own magic.”
Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now!

booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...

It's now publicly live. So if you're a writer of any kind and are not a right wing loony, please sign:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Straight/cis friends - the best time to actually get your skin in the game might have been in the past, but the second best time is now.

3 teens invented a salt-powered refrigerator that doesn't need electricity. They're building 200 of them for hospitals to use. The Thermavault refrigeration unit can keep vaccines cool with a reusable salt solution. The teens who built it plan to test it at 120 hospitals.

And uplifting post for my #EduSky and #EduSkayAU friends >>

www.businessinsider.com/teens-win-ea...

Orwell’s fairy tale tells the story of a farm’s rebellion against the tyranny of humans only to find themselves under a new totalitarian regime. It lays out the use of fear, propaganda, lies, and even hope as tools of oppression. Read about tyranny, it is critical now more than ever.

#booksky

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

Fight Like A Girl – Volume 2 ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-913892-84-5 EPUB: 978-1-913892-82-1 MOBI: 978-1-913892-83-8

So it's been a bit of a binbag of a week... BUT "Fight Like A Girl 2", feminist anthology featuring three trans authors, is a finalist in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards announced this evening, and I'm delighted for all my authors. You deserve this, all of you ♡
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...

Go me and my skills. I’ve made a #UKKidLit starter pack for anyone looking to find the kids book chat community on here. Hope it helps. #KidsBooks #KidLitUK #BookChat go.bsky.app/LEQd4SR

An Open Letter of Solidarity With the Trans Community from UK Writers NOTE: THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT TO PRESS AND RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC ON TUESDAY - UNTIL THEN, PLEASE ONLY SHARE WITH SMALL GROUPS AND TRUSTED INDIVIDUALS. The UK Supreme Court ruling of 17th April 2025...

Authors, illustrators, screenwriters, poets etc. Please sign this open letter regarding the recent UK Supreme Court judgement on trans peoples’ rights to legal recognition. 🏳️‍⚧️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.

If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community.

And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account.
goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...

Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.

I wrote an open letter to my fellow book ppl because no one is coming to save us.

We have to save us.

And I am weary of waiting for my colleagues to join the fight. Any fight. I chose book bans, but you don't have to

www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2025/4/17/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-book-creators

A hand holding up a stack of books in front of blurry bookshelves. The books are, from top to bottom: THE STRANGEWORLDS TRAVEL AGENCY by LD Lapinski VIVI CONWAY AND THE HAUNTED QUEST by Lizzie Huxley-Jones THE OTHERWOODS by Justine Pucella Winans SIR CALLIE AND THE WITCH'S WAR by Esme Symes-Smith THIS IS OUR RAINBOW: 16 STORIES ABOUT HER, HIM, THEM, AND US edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby ACCIDENTAL DEMONS by Clare Edge A SONG FOR YOU AND I by K. O'Neill THE OJJA-WOJJA by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

And the right response to transphobes is *always* to uplift trans voices, as a reminder that we have always been here and we will always be here.

So here's another stack of recommendations of trans and nonbinary writers writing amazing, fantastical, magical stories for kids.

Such a great initiative! I would give my OWN books to my 10 year old self – I loved #historicalbooks, #fantasy and #adventurestories and mine are all three! I wrote them for my 10 year old self AND my own kids because books like these with children of colour did not exist for far too long. #kidlituk

We see you. We stand with you.

It’s dangerous to think that what happens across the ocean can’t happen here. It can. It does. It has already started.

A vacancy has recently opened up at the Big Green Bookshop for a new customer.

The ideal candidate will have a regular urge to buy lots of amazing books.

Please email biggreenbooks@gmail.com with a list of books you'd like to buy.

The position is available straight away.

Illustrators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please answer this question honestly & share.

If you worked full time for a year on making a graphic novel of 200 pages, what fee would you expect to be paid for the job?

I've pre-ordered!! ♥️ All of Sara's editing genius in one little package.

In June @Writers_Artists will publish my first non-fiction book – THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EDITING YOUR NOVEL: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. For details & to pre-order at a 10% discount:
UK: bloomsbury.com/uk/ultimate-gu…
US: bloomsbury.com/us/ultimate-gu���

Photo of smiling children’s author Rashmi Sirdeshpande at her writing desk with a bookcase full of books behind her.

Photo of Rashmi Sirdeshpande’s books. The collection includes picture books illustrated by Diane Ewen, Rikin Parekh and Jojo Clinch, nonfiction illustrated by Annabel Tempest, Adam Hayes and Jason Lyon, a story anthology illustrated by Sarah McIntyre and poetry anthologies illustrated by Chris Riddell.

Hello Bluesky! I’m a neurodivergent UK children’s author who thinks and talks too much and writes a mix of picture books, poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Looking forward to connecting with people who make and love books! #KidsBooksUK

Same with Irish surnames that have an apostrophe

Text for this header image reads: "Starter Thread for Bluesky newbies, by Debbie Ridpath Ohi (@DebbieOhi.com)." Illustration shows figure holding up pointer in one hand, hugging a book in the other hand. A small pink heart float's above the smiling face.

UPDATED: My Bluesky Starter Thread. Newest version can always be accessed via debbieohi.link/starter (link in my profile bio, too). Feel free to share with anyone who needs it!

My take on social media
My Bluesky lists
Beginner tips
Starter thread for educators & librarians

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Hey, freelancers: it's time to raise your rates for 2024. You've gained another year of experience and you deserve to be paid for it.

Hello.

@norfolkbookworm.bsky.social has sent me some dosh, so I can send someone on Bluesky, the book of their choice.

It's "Buy a Stranger aBook" evening, so if there's a book you want, get i touch!

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

Help! Trying to remember the title of a children’s book I read back in the day. It involves kids on holiday in big old house, legends of dragons (or “worms”), finding old midwinter Mummers play costumes, and eventually the dragon revealed as an ancient earthwork in the landscape by snow. Any ideas?

"Rainbow Connection" with Kermit the Frog, Choir! Choir! Choir!, and New Yorkers at Lincoln Center This past October, Kermit the Frog and Choir! Choir! Choir! helped us to celebrate the new David Geffen Hall with a special sing-along performance of "Rainbo...

And this one. (I will always cry over this song. Always.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8en...