Saira Shah won the WriteMentor Picture Book Award 2022 and is now represented by Peters Fraser + Dunlop. She shares her experience and writing advice.
“I honestly believe if I hadn’t found WriteMentor, I would have given up after receiving so many rejections. I would have continued to believe that I wasn’t good enough. I …
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January 2023 Picture books are funny things, aren’t they? They do amazing jobs, from sending someone off to the land of sleep, to giving that same someone a championing fist …
Welcome to our end of year round-up. It’s been a busy and incredibly emotional year over on our Hub. We’ve had the highs of many members signing with agents and …
Want to get your manuscript noticed by publishing professionals? In WriteMentor’s new blog series, we invite leading literary agents to answer quick-fire questions about publishing and submissions, to give children’s …
June 2022 Midsummer is approaching and I don’t know what you’ll be doing but I’ll be climbing a mountain (in my mind) and setting light to a bonfire of some …
Reflections from Writer-in-Residence Marcus Sedgwick Read More »
June 2022 Picture books (other than the wordless wonders!) are a dance of words and pictures and very often, it’s a dance in the dark. As all picture book writers …
Most if not all writers will have experienced or are currently experiencing strain on their mental health. For all its highs, writing, and then the process of querying and publishing, …