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16th January 2025
Our online festival is back for 2025, and it's bigger than ever before!
The Children’s Writers & Illustrators Festival 2025 is a series...
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Middle Grade (Children's)
Your target readership is pre-teen; typically between 6 and 12 year-olds. Middle grade stories tend to feature protagonists that are of a similar age to the target audience, with themes covered and language used also age-appropriate. Authors of popular middle grade titles include Katherine Rundell, Jacqueline Wilson and Roald Dahl.
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16th September 2024
Steve Smallman, author of the Maggie Sparks series, discusses why he loves writing friendships in children's fiction and the rewards and challenges...
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16th July 2024
When I begin a new book, I look at relationship dynamics I’ve used previously and try to find a fresh angle. For Fallout, this meant creating a...
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13th January 2025
Our 2025 Yearbooks are here, and to mark the 118th edition of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook and the 21st anniversary edition of...
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17th July 2024
In this extract from his article for the Children’s Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2025, Tom Palmer explains the many benefits of working with a...
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2nd October 2024
In this extract from her article for the Children’s Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2025, Hannah Gold explains how sentimentality – along with a...