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19th February 2026
As the host of the W&A Children’s Writers and Illustrators online festival, I’ve worked with brilliant authors and illustrators, and our 2026...
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Adventure
Your story is for a Children's/Young Adult readership with a pacey plot and a protagonist in peril, often having being uprooted from their ordinary way of life. Famous works of adventure fiction have been written by JRR Tolkein, William Golding and Suzanne Collins.
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26th March 2025
It is half past six on a February morning and it is just getting light outside. I am in my writing room, the room I call the Imaginarium.
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23rd March 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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30th January 2024
W&A Team member Clare Povey spoke with award-winning Sam Sedgman ahead of the release of his solo fiction debut, The Clockwork Conspiracy, to...
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11th January 2024
Author Brittany N. Williams shares how she turned her NaNoWriMo project into a fully-fledged novel.
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24th May 2023
Opening up to the world, putting words onto paper is hard. I spent half my life with no qualifications – unsure whether I could actually write. In...