Hi everyone,I hope you all had a great Christmas! I am hoping that someone out there may be able to provide some guidance.My 12yr old son has written a kids book over the holidays. Just a short, picture book style - aimed at parents to read to their toddlers or for early readers. He has envisioned it as a board style book and has illustrated it as well. Of course he has asked me how to go about publishing it! I realise the world of publishing childrens books is vast and fraught with uncertainty…See More

Here’s something for all you budding writers out there over the Christmas/New Year holiday period…To celebrate the 2012 National Year of Reading, The City of Newcastle and the Hunter Writers’ Centre are combining forces to bring you an exciting new Short Story Award.  Cash prizes are on offer as well as the chance to be published in an anthology of short listed entries.Find out all the details…See More

Prizes offered to help local literacy.Helping local literacy locally can start at age 3-4 but where's the stuff or tools?My failure prevention or school-proofing kit packaged in size and format like  like a Santa Sack A Boodle of Doodles does an effective yet fun job. So I would like to offer as campaign prizes 5 sets of x4 quality, large, graded, literacy posters illustrated by Armin Armin Greder, Ian Ottley and Sue Wright. Huge calligraphy text. They were developed by a primary, secondary…See More