Secondary school librarian • Cheshire Novel Prize Kids 25 Winner!!! • WriteMentor Novel Award 25 SL • Times/Chicken House 21 LL • pronouns she/her •
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Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
✨SUBMISSIONS OPEN - 12PM TODAY!✨
Do you:
🍂Live in the UK or Ireland?
🍂Have a finished or unfinished MG novel for children aged 7-11?
We're opening a 24 hour submission period here at Chicken House this Autumn Equinox (22nd September)
Details➡️ loom.ly/LX7qCic
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
I was planning on doing a giveaway to celebrate being agented, and with all the ugliness on show atm, it makes sense to do it now & offer it to anyone underrepresented.
Lots are already doing query critiques etc, so you can choose from:
- 1 month’s PM subscription
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Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
KLAXON! The Guppy Open Submission 2025 longlist has been announced - check out the Guppy website - what a list of talent! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ guppybooks.co.uk/news-and-ev…
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
Drum roll please🥁. . .
We are thrilled to announce the longlist for the Times Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2025!
Congratulations to our talented longlisted authors. Keep an eye on our channels for updates 👀
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
That’s a wrap! 🙌
Feeling so grateful for this incredible writing community. Today in York, we gathered to celebrate our amazing group of writers and illustrators.
We shared insights, did some fun writing exercises, and of course, ate loads of cake 🍰
#WritingCommunity
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
** Submissions OPEN **
If you're a #KidLit writer in the UK/Europe, #UV26 could be your big break. The anthology has launched 100s of writers' careers - will you be next?
Find out more and enter by 8 September 2025👇
undiscoveredvoices.com
@SCBWI_BI @scbwiEurope
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
Alex Wheatle MBE (1963-2025) was our charity's patron.
Thanks to @HachetteKids & @BarringtonStoke we have 10 sets of seven of Alex's brilliant books to give away to UK school libraries.
To enter, follow us and share this post. Closing date: 18 July.
#ReadingForPleasure 1/2
ALT Photo of spines of Alex Wheatle books: Liccle Bit, Crongton Knights, Straight Outta Crongton, In The Ends, The Humiliations of Welton Blake, The Girl with the Red Boots and Kerb-Stain Boys. Text reads: Win for your school library Book Clubs in Schools logo
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
Return to the epic dinosaur adventure in the third installment in the hilarious all-action series by Philip Kavvadias!
MISSION: MONSTER MIND 🦖
OUT 3RD JULY
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
The Kids Lit writing competition that helped me connect with my lovely agent opens NEXT WEEK! All you need to enter is 2,500 words of your opening chapter(s) a synopsis and a pitch line. For more info go to www/undiscoveredvoices.com
Submissions open NEXT WEEK for #UV26 - how's your manuscript looking?
Our amazing co-founder, author and editing guru @AuthorSaraGrant has put together this incredibly helpful checklist to help decide if you're submission ready 👇
undiscoveredvoices.com/news/…
@SCBWI_BI
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
COMPETITION TIME! The portholes are open for submissions for the Guppy 2025 Open Submissions Competition - calling all aspiring m-g writers! And you could join the ranks of these wonderful past winners! guppybooks.co.uk/its-that-ti…
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
I’m absolutely thrilled to share that I am now represented by the awesome Gyamfia Osei at Andrew Nurnberg Associates!
Endless thanks to Write Mentor and my SCBWI writing groups — I wouldn’t be here without your constant amazingness. @gyamfia_o @writementor @SCBWI_BI
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
Congratulations @libraryzo 🙌🙌🙌 you are such a talent!!! Can’t wait to celebrate with cocktails 🍹 🍸
We are delighted to announce the winner and highly commended writers for our Cheshire Novel Prize Kids 2025. Congratulations to all of our shortlisted and long-listed writers! #cheshirenovelprizekids2025
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
Congratulations to my buddy @libraryzo - so glad to see your brilliance recognized!
We are delighted to announce the winner and highly commended writers for our Cheshire Novel Prize Kids 2025. Congratulations to all of our shortlisted and long-listed writers! #cheshirenovelprizekids2025
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
✨GIVEAWAY✨
To celebrate the publication of Live, Luke Palmer's third YA novel, we're giving away a full set of Luke's books to one lucky winner.
To be in with a chance of winning, be sure to follow us, like and RT this post by 11:59pm 04/06
UK only. Good luck!
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
Evie and Maryam's Family Tree is Book of the Week in #Theweekjunior ! @guppybooks
In the latest issue of #TheWeekJunior, children can:
🎥 Go behind the scenes of Lilo & Stitch
🤩 Read about a new art museum sharing stories of migration
🧚♂️ Discover more about fairy tales protecting bluebells
And lots more!
@Disney_UK
#Kidsmagazine #Learning
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
We're delighted to announce the 2025 Search for a Storyteller longlist! Congratulations to these authors!✍️🥳@arvonfoundation
Thank you to everyone who entered & sent a story. The range was inspiring & we're heartened to know there are so many dedicated storytellers out there❤️
ALT The 2025 Search for a Storyteller longlist: The Girl Who Lost Her Imagination - Rupert Barrington Fox & Mouse and the Worlds Inbetween - Emmy Clarke The Secrets of Skyshore - Laura Davies The Bee Seekers - Ruth Davies Piglet and Pear - Jessica Ellis The Broken Isle - Heather Fishwick Light Beyond the Mountains - Alka Handa Sparks of Green - Claire Lincoln-Gordon Fishsong - Sarah Newman The Monster of Ruthyn Hall - Helen Parry Octavius Blood and the Blood Oath - Ross Salvage Febred - Clive Wallis
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
KLAXON! It’s competition time! The portholes are open once again - head to the Guppy website for more information about the 2025 Open Submission Competition - this time open to middle-grade authors. Good luck and please spread the news far and wide! guppybooks.co.uk
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
We are delighted to announce the longlists for the 2025 WriteMentor Picture Book and Novel Awards, sponsored by David Higham Associates.
Congratulations to all who listed and a huge thank you to all who entered!
write-mentor.com/2025/05/05/…
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
💛 GIVEAWAY! 💛
To celebrate the publication of #IDareYou we are giving away a bundle of books by Tamsin Winter to one of our lovely followers.
To enter simply:
- FOLLOW Usborne Publishing
- LIKE this post
- RWEET
Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
We have 4 copies of the GRIPPINGLY TWISTY #Traumaland by #JoshSilver to #WIN!
Are you a thrill seeker? Would you follow 17-year-old Eli down the virtual reality rabbit hole to Traumaland?
RT & Flw by May 9 to enter, if you dare! 🐰🎧
@rocktheboatnews #WRDMagComp
