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Writing Climate Change Fiction for Children by Sophie Kirtley

Power to the Readers! When I heard that my book, The Wild Way Home, had

Adapting a Classic for Children by Katherine Woodfine

Awesomely Austen: Rewriting Pride and Prejudice for today’s young readers I was twelve when I

The Shape of Stories by Holly Jackson

My first book, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, has just been published by Egmont

Writing for Children by Bannie McPartlin

My first book Pack Up The Moon, was published in 2006. My first screenplay was

Picture Books: From Idea to Submission by Olivia Hope

If ever someone tells me they have a children’s picturebook story they want to write

Writing for Teens: Dialogue Inspirations by Alex Wheatle

When I create a teenage character for a fictional piece of work, my first priority

Flying Zebras and Dancing Cheese: Writing for Children by Debbie Thomas

This article was originally titled ‘How to write for children’. But there are millions of

An Essential YA Reading List by Claire Hennessy

If you read a lot of author interviews or FAQs you’re probably sick of seeing

Prints and Paints: Designing Socks for Mr Wolf by Tatyana Feeney

My books have been described as “deceptively simple”, a description that I have never been

The ‘Issue’ with YA Fiction by Claire Hennessy

Sometimes, as a writer, introducing yourself is a terrifying thing. You mightn’t know this, but

Balancing the Political with the Personal in Fiction: Harvesting by Lisa Harding

Harvesting, my debut novel, was a tricky one to place in the world of publishing

A Whole New Readership: Gold by Geraldine Mills

I was facilitating a workshop some weeks ago with fourth class and one of the

Writing Fantastical Worlds by Ruth Frances Long & E. R. Murray

Two different writers, two different age groups, and two different publishers – but Ruth Frances

Writing Fairy Tale Retellings that Stand Out by Betsy Cornwell

Every few years, someone announces that “fairy tale retellings are back!” In truth, however, retellings

Want to Write for Children? Patricia Murphy Explains

My main qualification for writing for children is that I used to be one. Just

Picture Books: To Rhyme Or Not To Rhyme by Sarah Webb

I was doing some intense thinking about picture books last night. My writing class

Writing for Children: Six Months of Bizarre Google Searches

I had been wanting to write a children’s book for ages, but there was always

Sarah Webb: Inside Children’s Books & Publishing With CBI

I attended the Children’s Books Ireland Conference in the DLR Lexicon Library on Saturday 24th

Amazon’s Kids’ Book Creator: How To by Olivia Kiernan

For a long time picture book authors and creatives have been limited to either vanity

How to Write a Brilliant Christmas Short Story for Children

This week Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin of writing.ie together with children’s book enthusiast Kim Harte and