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Dip into horror with The Blood Texts

Uncle Zeedie is weird, but at least he's rich and his house is amazing. That's what George and Lacey tell themselves when they arrive at his isolat...
Poetry speaking competition Poetry by Heart 2026 opens for entries

Poetry By Heart, a national poetry speaking competition, opens today, National Poetry Day, 2 October 2025, with a call to all schools in England to...
Little Rebels Award 2025 winner announced

Sarah Hagger Holt has won the Little Rebels Award 2015 for her novel The Fights That Make Us, a cross-generational story that honours the LGBTQ+ ac...
A library for every primary by 2029

The Libraries for Primaries campaign, which recently celebrated transforming 1,500 school libraries, will work with the government to ensure every...
BBC's 500 Words writing competition is back for 2025

The 500 Words competition is now open, challenging children aged five to 11 years to write a short story in up to 500 words for the BBC's annual co...

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