Free writing helps you get to know your characters. Here's my video on how to utilise it for picture book writing: @picturebooktips

My latest picture book tips video: Read as many picture books as you can (particularly newly published) #picturebooks #kidlit #childrenswriter #amwriting https://t.co/cx4EK4xfB3

My latest picture book tip: read your story aloud! @picturebooktips https://t.co/QZkGDY1CqC #picturebook #amwriting #kidlit

Just entered my picture book text into the @writementor Novel and Picture Book Awards!! It's a great opportunity for any aspiring writers as it has picture book right up to adult categories. Good luck to anyone who enters 😊

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The winner of WriteMentor's Idea Idol is...🥁🥁🥁 🎉 Kirsti Sinclair's Middle Grade story 'Dewey Decimal is My Friend' 🎉 Judge @deedotpower said: “I loved this pitch. It’s relatively straightforward – no saving the world stakes here, but it still has a really strong sense of

Idea Idol, our new pitching competition, is now open internationally until mid-July ↪️ https://t.co/ObosEiH15f To help sharpen your pitch, here’s some brilliant advice from a guest agent who judged our monthly pitching contest on the WriteMentor Hub ↪️ https://t.co/9ofFU2ouDO

Want to see what 111 free-to-view quality Christmas/Winter themed poems written for children looks like? #Christmas #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 🎈

Just a couple of weeks left to submit!

Reading some fantastic new poems on @TheDirigible 🎈 It’s made me feel all warm and cosy on this cold drizzly day. https://t.co/c5TIOD8c8D

We are now half way through the submissions window for our Nature edition. You have three weeks left to send us your poems, stories and illustrations! See our website for further details. #SubmissionsOpen #SubmissionsCall #KidLit #ChikdrensMagazine

Submissions for our NATURE Edition are now open! You have until 23:59 on Tuesday 12th September to send us your stories, poems and illustrations. We are really looking forward to seeing them! #SubmissionsCall #KidLit #ChildrensMagazine #SubmissionsOpen #WritingCommunity

Why is writing a synopsis for a PB the hardest thing in the world?! My story appears to be about a million different things and none of them at the same time! #kidlit #writingcommunity #picturebook

Searchlight Writing for Children Awards 2023 Entries are invited for the Best Novel Opening for Children and Young Adults and Best Picture Book Text Find out more - https://t.co/dzWBlMMSFg

My class were desperate to shout out ‘please’ when we got to it in this fabulous poem! They absolutely loved it. @BleimanDavid #ChildrensPoetry #edutwitter https://t.co/vAeMmDAxxr

We would love to connect to more authors and illustrators on Twitter - come say hi! #AuthorsOfTwitter #illustrators #kidslit #poetry #fiction #SubmissionsWelcome

I recently subscribed to @Mslexia and I'm loving it. I'd recommend it to any woman writer looking for wisdom & inspiration. #Writingcommunity

I am delighted my new poem, Let's Celebrate The Stage, is with @TheDirigible 's June flight. Thank you, @JonathanHumble, for creating a community & home for many poems, including my poems about moonstones, countryside crafts, pineapple party dresses, spider plants & happiness.

Imagine a poetry resource for children, free and safe to use, with a wide and wonderful range of poems from poets who you may not have heard of yet are producing the quality of work you'd expect from more established and well-known poets signed up to big publishing houses ... 🎈