@tomwriting_X

#picturebook author by night Winner, Searchlight Best PB 2024; 15 other competition LL and SL. Repped by Georgia Tournay-Godfrey @ The Bright Agency

Joined March 2017
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I’m thrilled to win @WritingAwards’ Best Picture Book Text 2024! Huge thanks to Kim Donovan for organising, @HemingwayLorna for judging, and all the amazing readers for this competition. Congratulations to all the other entrants for putting their fantastic stories out there! 🙌🏻
Searchlight Writing for Children Awards@WritingAwards7 Feb 2025
Announcing the long-awaited results of Best Picture Book Text 2024. Huge congratulations to our final 10! ⭐️ 🥳 Thank you to all the writers who entered this competition. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to read your stories. ❤️ searchlightawards.co.uk/best…
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🌟Giveaway!🌟 Giveaway!🌟 GIVEAWAY!!🌟 This will be running all week with the winners announced on Sunday 6th April. 🤩 To visit my shop please click on either of the links below: thalamusplank.co.uk etsy.com/shop/ThalamusPlank Thank you! 🤗
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Our Winners’ Gallery for Best Novel Opening and Best Picture Book Text 2024 is now live! See who won, read short extracts of the stories… Congratulations to all! 👏👏👏 searchlightawards.co.uk/winn…
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I’m delighted to share that I’m now represented by Georgia Tournay-Godfrey at @_Bright_Agency! 🥳🎉🍾 I’m SO excited to join the Bright family and can’t wait to start working with Georgia. #kidlit #picturebooks
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YAY!
Searchlight Writing for Children Awards@WritingAwards7 Feb 2025
Tom Lancaster has been crowned the winner of Best Picture Book Text 2024. Our judge Lorna Hemingway of Bell Lomax Moreton said that Bamboo Hullabaloo was ‘a joy to read aloud due to its excellent rhyme and fast paced nature’. Many congratulations, Tom! 🥳⭐️🍾
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And still, we overlook the "good" children. Please share to help raise awareness of how inattentive type adhd might present in the classroom. @ADHDFoundation #adhdawareness #overlooked
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Delighted to make the Searchlight #picturebook longlist again! 🥳🎉 Congratulations to all the other longlistees, and well done to everyone who entered for putting your work out there. Huge thanks as ever to all the incredible readers, and to Kim for organising!👏🏻
Searchlight Writing for Children Awards@WritingAwards12 Dec 2024
It’s the moment our entrants have been waiting for - the longlist announcement! 🥳🍾 Congratulations to everyone who entered. It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to read your writing. See our website for details. searchlightawards.co.uk/news… #WritingCommunity #searchlightawards
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Fantastic news for my wonderful CP @hazel! Congratulations, enjoy every moment. 🎉🥳🍾
Hazel Gardner@hazel24 Oct 2024
Happy publication day, Penguin and Pup! 🐧🐶🎉
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I deleted my tweet about celebrity authors because it blew up and became a bit overwhelming. I’ve no intention of fighting a one woman crusade against celebrity authors, many of whom I admire hugely. 1/5
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Hazel Gardner@hazel17 Oct 2024
One week till the world meets Penguin and Pup!!! 🐧🐶 Available to preorder: panmacmillan.com/authors/haz…
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Tupperware, meet Kellogg's... you should talk. 🙄
Tupperware full to the brim of cornflakes with a very small amount of cornflakes left in the bag next to it.

ALT Tupperware full to the brim of cornflakes with a very small amount of cornflakes left in the bag next to it.

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Super excited to share the news that I'm now represented by @emmalayfield2 at @CBNAgency!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Can't wait to start this next adventure...
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Woop woop! 🎉🙌🏼 Hugest congratulations to CP @_BethanClarke, such amazing and well-deserved news!
Children's Books North Agency@CBNAgency24 Sep 2024
NEW SIGNING! Thrilled to announce that Bethan Clarke has joined Children’s Books North Agency. Bethan is an exciting new picture book writer whose debut won the Oxfordshire Picture Book Awards & the English Association Picture Book Award. Bethan is based in Cheshire.
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THE NEWS IS OUT! I’ve launched Children’s Books North Agency @CBNAgency to represent Northern and Scottish writers and illustrators. I’m thrilled to be starting CBNA’s journey with Bethan Clarke, Lucy Farfort, Jess Mahy, Francis Martin, Rachel Plummer and Michael Whaite. 🎉
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Amazing news! Wish you every success @emmalayfield2! 🎉👏🏼
Children's Books North Agency@CBNAgency24 Sep 2024
Children’s Books North Agency a NEW literary and illustration agency based in Manchester. We represent Northern and Scottish writers and illustrators of picture books, fiction and non-fiction. Check out our brilliant bunch of clients: childrensbooksnorthagency.co…
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🌊💛In honour of #WorldAlzheimersDay2024 , I'm sharing a little about The Tide, my picture book with #AshlingLindsay and @LittleTigerUK The Tide gently explores the challenges of memory loss through the lens of a young girl and her grandad who spend a day at the beach together.
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Today is World Alzheimers Day... the perfect day to share GRANDAD'S STAR. With words by me, illustrations by #RhianStone, published by @books_rocket, this book sensitively introduces the theme of Alzheimers in a child-friendly way. alzheimers.org.uk @alzheimerssoc 💙⭐️
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Hazel Gardner@hazel19 Sep 2024
5 weeks till the world meets Penguin and Pup 🎄🐧🐶 Super excited for the launch of this series by me and @DoodleDyson, published by @MacmillanKidsUK @panmacmillan
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It should be teethbrush and teethpaste.
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