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Merry Christmas to the wonderful Sketch&Scribe community!
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In our first year, we want to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to our talented authors and illustrators for sharing your creativity, our publishing partners for your invaluable collaboration,

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Highlights from the Sketch & Scribe on-line professional development day
🩵artist-illustrator Pete Cromer’s tips to success & staying true to your artistic self
💙Zanni Louise whale plotting structure
💜Renee Treml’s ins & o

Hey CHILDREN’S STORY WRITERS & ARTISTS! The Sketch and Scribe Festival will bring masterclasses, panels and workshops with expert creators and publishers into your HOME this weekend (and for 30 more days as it’s recorded!) from Oct 18

Hello my story lovers 🩷💙🩷 here I am thinking about what me, the publishers & experts & the Sketch & Scribe team created & achieved this weekend.
✅We listened to what publishers want from creators
✅we learned from best selling expe

FIRST PAGES COMP Chapter-Older Readers categories WINNER IS …
⭐️”Scrap” by @michellewilsonauthor
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Senior editor Kate Whitfield (A&U) told us “it was a very fine line between the shortlisted entries and would like all t

FIRST PAGES COMP PB WINNER IS …
⭐️”Down at Gemstone Beach” by @astridkeirstanley_author
Publisher Alyson O’Brien (Little Book Press) told us ‘ it was very difficult picking a winner’
📚However 📚
“Gemstone

Any eat another cannoli 🩷💙🩷 @sketchandscribefest

WHATS HOT IN PUBLISHING!! The hottest tips on what books are successful & what they’re looking out for 👀
⭐️Alyson O’Brien - Little Book Press
⭐️James Layton & Dani Vee - Larrikin House
⭐️Kate Whitfiled - A&U
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