We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, edited by Ruth McKee, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with contributions from acclaimed authors and book industry ...

The UK children’s poet Brian Moses is judging this year’s Caterpillar Poetry Prize, closing on March 31st. The prize is for the best poem written by an adult for children. Anyone over 16 can enter, ...

How did you start writing for children? The first children's poem I wrote was for my nephew when he was eight; it's called Sam, Sam, Quite Contrary. In it he does all sorts of odd things and finishes ...

Everyone knows that authors — even bestselling authors — are familiar with sting of rejection, many seeing their manuscripts turned down by a dozen publishing houses before getting published. Everyone ...

The Poetry Archive, a charity set up by Sir Andrew Motion to preserve digital recordings of poets reading their own work, has set up a website of children’s poems. The Children's Poetry Archive site, ...

Shel Silverstein made it easy for kids to love poetry. Author of “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light in the Attic” among other works, Silverstein made poetry accessible, relatable and fun. These ...

Kenn Nesbitt has been named the new Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation, for a two-year tenure. Nesbitt, who lives with his family in Spokane, Wash. – will serve as an advisor on ...

Enzo Meliendre was not on Nantucket long before his wife, Nantucket native Ingrid Feeney, went into labor with their daughter ...

Is children's literature meant to prolong the experience of childhood, or introduce our little ones to the darker realities of being a grown-up? Covering the last 300 years of Polish poetry, Marek ...

Two retired teachers from O’Fallon will be at the O’Fallon Public Library at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11 for a book signing and activities with kids. Catherine Roseberry and George Gasparich joined ...