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Wainwright Winners Announced

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SAIL Fest returns for a second year in collaboration with Tate Publishing

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Matt Goodfellow announced as BookTrust’s new Writer in Residence

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City Lit Celebrates Forty Years of Children’s Book Writing and Illustration

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Books for Keeps offer: a free place at the IBBY UK 2025 Conference

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Winners of the 2025 Jericho Prize announced

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Young Comics Laureate 2025-26 Nominations open

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Inclusive Books for Children Awards open with new Children’s Choice category

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Yuval Zommer, Katya Balen and Benjamin Zephaniah shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize 2025

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Diverse Book Awards 2025 Longlist Announced and Readers’ Choice Award Opens

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Discover the shortlists for the 2025 Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (The Lollies)

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Debut Authors and Interrupters – the 2025 Little Rebels Award Shortlist

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The School Library Association Announces Honours Lists for 2025 Awards

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Margaret McDonald and her editors Alice Swan and Ama Badu win the 2025 Branford Boase Award

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‘The magic of poetry by heart’ Champions of the 2025 National Poetry Speaking Competition Announced

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New National Year of Reading launching January 2026

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Winners of the 2025 UKLA Book Awards

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Effervescent, scintillating, riveting! Collection of ‘colossal’ word poems wins the CLiPPA

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