Secondary school librarian • Cheshire Novel Prize Kids 25 Winner!!! • WriteMentor Novel Award 25 SL • Times/Chicken House 21 LL • pronouns she/her •
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1 Jun 2025
Aaaaaah I’m so in shock to have won the Cheshire Novel Prize Kids! I keep going back to check that I’ve not somehow imagined the whole thing. Massive congratulations to my fellow authors on the shortlist, and thank you to all the judges!
1 Jun 2025
You can check out all our interviews and our shortlisted writers work here:
cheshirenovelprizekids.com/2……
Well done Zoe!
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22 Sep 2025
✨SUBMISSIONS OPEN - 12PM TODAY!✨
Do you:
🍂Live in the UK or Ireland?
🍂Have a finished or unfinished MG novel for children aged 7-11?
We're opening a 24 hour submission period here at Chicken House this Autumn Equinox (22nd September)
Details➡️ loom.ly/LX7qCic
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17 Sep 2025
Massive thank you to @Schoolbookclubs for this Alex Wheatle bundle! We’ll be discussing the Crongton series in Book Club next week - can’t wait!
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26 Aug 2025
I was planning on doing a giveaway to celebrate being agented, and with all the ugliness on show atm, it makes sense to do it now & offer it to anyone underrepresented.
Lots are already doing query critiques etc, so you can choose from:
- 1 month’s PM subscription
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18 Aug 2025
I’m so so pleased to be on the Guppy longlist! I love Guppy so much!!!!
18 Aug 2025
KLAXON! The Guppy Open Submission 2025 longlist has been announced - check out the Guppy website - what a list of talent! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ guppybooks.co.uk/news-and-ev…
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18 Aug 2025
KLAXON! The Guppy Open Submission 2025 longlist has been announced - check out the Guppy website - what a list of talent! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ guppybooks.co.uk/news-and-ev…
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Drum roll please🥁. . .
We are thrilled to announce the longlist for the Times Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2025!
Congratulations to our talented longlisted authors. Keep an eye on our channels for updates 👀
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10 Jul 2025
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE!
After a ludicrously long day at work (you can tell from my hair) I came home to find my award from @prizenovel_CNP!!!
I’ve put it next to my other award, which was bought from a charity shop and given to me for ‘being a good friend’
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5 Jul 2025
That’s a wrap! 🙌
Feeling so grateful for this incredible writing community. Today in York, we gathered to celebrate our amazing group of writers and illustrators.
We shared insights, did some fun writing exercises, and of course, ate loads of cake 🍰
#WritingCommunity
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5 Jul 2025
On my way to the SCBWI meet up in York, having a cheeky peruse of fellow @prizenovel_CNP shortlistee @BWheelerBooks’s excellent book!
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5 Jul 2025
When my (hilarious, heartbreaking) YA inevitably comes out please do not ask ‘why are these teenagers constantly drinking expensive silly little drinks?’ Art imitates life, baby
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Zoe FitzGibbon retweeted
3 Jul 2025
** Submissions OPEN **
If you're a #KidLit writer in the UK/Europe, #UV26 could be your big break. The anthology has launched 100s of writers' careers - will you be next?
Find out more and enter by 8 September 2025👇
undiscoveredvoices.com
@SCBWI_BI @scbwiEurope
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1 Jul 2025
Alex Wheatle MBE (1963-2025) was our charity's patron.
Thanks to @HachetteKids & @BarringtonStoke we have 10 sets of seven of Alex's brilliant books to give away to UK school libraries.
To enter, follow us and share this post. Closing date: 18 July.
#ReadingForPleasure 1/2
ALT Photo of spines of Alex Wheatle books: Liccle Bit, Crongton Knights, Straight Outta Crongton, In The Ends, The Humiliations of Welton Blake, The Girl with the Red Boots and Kerb-Stain Boys. Text reads: Win for your school library Book Clubs in Schools logo
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27 Jun 2025
It turns out I did not, in fact, know whodunnit
27 Jun 2025
Off on a school trip to the York dungeons! Getting myself nice and spooked up in prep with @GinaBlaxill - I’m on page 299 and I’m almost certain I know whodunnit 🕵️♀️
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27 Jun 2025
Off on a school trip to the York dungeons! Getting myself nice and spooked up in prep with @GinaBlaxill - I’m on page 299 and I’m almost certain I know whodunnit 🕵️♀️
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27 Jun 2025
Clearly not very good at my job as I seem to be the only person on this coach holding a book. Get it together, youths!
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25 Jun 2025
Return to the epic dinosaur adventure in the third installment in the hilarious all-action series by Philip Kavvadias!
MISSION: MONSTER MIND 🦖
OUT 3RD JULY
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26 Jun 2025
The Kids Lit writing competition that helped me connect with my lovely agent opens NEXT WEEK! All you need to enter is 2,500 words of your opening chapter(s) a synopsis and a pitch line. For more info go to www/undiscoveredvoices.com
24 Jun 2025
Submissions open NEXT WEEK for #UV26 - how's your manuscript looking?
Our amazing co-founder, author and editing guru @AuthorSaraGrant has put together this incredibly helpful checklist to help decide if you're submission ready 👇
undiscoveredvoices.com/news/…
@SCBWI_BI
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16 Jun 2025
COMPETITION TIME! The portholes are open for submissions for the Guppy 2025 Open Submissions Competition - calling all aspiring m-g writers! And you could join the ranks of these wonderful past winners! guppybooks.co.uk/its-that-ti…
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14 Jun 2025
Waiting for a friend and reading my most anticipated book of the year
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14 Jun 2025
It’s possible that the good folks at Hot Key don’t know that ‘goon’ means something quite different to the youth
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