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Authors Abroad @authorsabroad.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Our January Newsletter is out NOW! 🎉📚✨ Including celebrating the #NationalYearofReading, author visits focusing on #Shakespeare, book reviews from author Ray Star and an interview with @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social Read it here now www.authorsabroad.com/latest-news/newsletter-issue-thirty-five

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Monday was my first school visit for #YoungPoetsWeek! What a blast! ✨ Also, happened to be at @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social's old primary - the kids and staff speak so fondly of him! 🫶 Can't wait to see what today brings in Rochdale! @literacy-trust.bsky.social #YoungPoetsWeek

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Honoured to receive an MBE from King Charles on Wednesday- and dedicating it to 2 amazing people. To my dad, who raised me and gave me his strength and belief. And to my better half Gwen, whose love, patience and encouragement keep me grounded and striving. Grateful beyond words

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Today, I'll be performing #WeAreFamily at St. Chrysostum's Primary School and Manchester Central Library, promoting the #Take10ToRead campaign with @manclibraries, #ReadMCR and National Literacy Trust. I'll also be trying to squeeze in my own 10 minutes to read! I hope you'll be doing the same! 📚

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Jumping Jules Poetry @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Recent post! Books and magazines I’m really enjoying. Well done Aeos Magazine, @barbarableiman.bsky.social @citizen-chris.bsky.social @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social and Simon Lamb. You stars! 🌟🌟🌟

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Wow! TWO of my books have been voted for by kids to be shortlisted for the 2025 Children's Literature Festivals Book Awards! 🤩 Thnx to Ian Morris who illustrated both, to publishers @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social and Man Met Uni & Your Story, and all the children who voted! 🥳🎊✨

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Lovely pic from the #CLiPPA book ceremony with primary school legends Jack and Caddus from Summercroft Primary 😊 They did an exceptional job performing 'Saving Face' from #WeAreFamily in front of 1000 people! Good job, lads! 🫡

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Hi @katewakeling.bsky.social, I just wanted to say how lovely it was to meet you at the Clippa ceremony. Despite how confident i am on stage, I find those sorts of after-events quite anxiety-inducing, but chatting to you really helped calm my nerves, so huge thank you! 😊

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Today, I receive an MBE for Services to Access to the Arts for Underprivileged Young People. I'd like to dedicate it to my dad, who raised me and my five siblings, who taught me the importance of education and who encouraged me to chase my dreams. Nais tuke, Dad! 🙏

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

✨️ Super-excited to share that We Are Family has been shortlisted for The 2025 Week Junior Book Awards! ✨ Huge thanks to my publisher, Otter-Barry Books, for taking a chance on this proud working class writer! 🫶

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

All 5 of the '25 CLiPPA shortlisted poets are having chats with Nikki Gamble for her Just Imagine UK podcast! I had a blast chatting with her, and performing 'Boxing With My Dad' and 'This Field On This Farm'. Here's the link: justimagine.co.uk/2025/05/13/w...

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We Are Family - Just Imagine

We Are Family: Oliver Sykes talks to Nikki Gamble about his CLiPPA shortlisted collection

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Sounds Made by Humans, an album of my poems put to music by the brilliant Catenary Wires comes out a week tomorrow. To celebrate, Rough Trade are releasing an exclusive white vinyl version. If you fancy getting hold of a copy, it can be ordered here: www.roughtrade.com/product/soun...

A pic of the Sounds Like Humans album. The sleeve has quirky drawing of the band’s instruments and books piled up where the singer is supposed to be. There’s a lovely floral carpet, too. The white vinyl record is peeping out of the sleeve.

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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“Five new poetry collections, each with their own magic.” Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now! booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...

Graphic showing the five collections shortlisted for the CLiPPA 2025, CLPE Children's Poetry Award. They are:
Wise Up! Wise Down! by John Agard and JonArno Lawson, illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura, Walker Books
Let Sleeping Cats Lie, Brian Bilston, Macmillan
Colossal Words for Kids by Colette Hiller, illustrated by Tor Freeman, Frances Lincoln
Big Red Dragon by Jane Newberry, illustrated by Carolina Rabei, Otter-Barry Books
We Are Family by Oliver Skyes, illustrated by Ian Morris, Otter-Barry Books

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Kirsten Allen (@kidsstoryworld) @kidsstoryworld.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

1/2 Every emotion in the gorgeous funny and moving We Are FamilyI’ve been reading it with my 8yo (we take turns in reading the verses). From lumps in my throat to tears of laughter this book about @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social real life childhood has it all…

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Less than two weeks to go until #BigCatReadOn is here! 🤩 Big Cat Read On is a new collection of 20 chapter books designed to improve reading stamina and comprehension at upper KS2, and I'm overjoyed that my new book ‘Saving Anwen’ is included! Find out more here: collins.co.uk/collections/...

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Big Cat Read On

20 exciting free readers to bridge the jump from banded readers to longer chapter books, featuring more sophisticated themes, vocabulary, plots and structures.

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Kirsten Allen (@kidsstoryworld) @kidsstoryworld.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Will review properly the other side of school holiday madness but just popped on to say absolutely love @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social book We Are Family. Emotional rollercoaster of a poetry novel. Funny and moving…love that poetry novels like one this are being firmly placed on the book shelf map 😍

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

📣BOOK NEWS📣 My next book ‘Saving Anwen’ publishes in just two weeks as part of #BigCatReadOn! Set children up for a lifelong love of reading with new chapter books from Collins Big Cat, perfect for use in the classroom and at home 📚 Find out more here: collins.co.uk/collections/...

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Had a lovely time in Trafford recently, performing #WeAreFamily! Big thanks to Trafford Libraries for making it happen 😊

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Had an amazing time this afternoon! Huge thanks to everyone who came to watch #wearefamily, and a huge thanks to the theatre staff (Gaynor, Gwyneth and Barry) at Theatr Twm O'r Nant in Denbigh! ☺️👏

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Had a wonderful time today performing my stage adaptation of #WeAreFamily at Old Trafford Library and Sale Library! 🥳 Huge thank you to Trafford Libraries for all their support and to everyone who came down 👏 Next stop... Theatr Twm O'r Nant, Denbigh! 🤩

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

My debut poetry collection, We Are Family: Six Kids and Super-Dad, has just been shortlisted for the 2025 Stockport Children's Book Awards! 🤩🥳👌

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Honoured to have TWO titles on the longlist for the '25 #clfbookawards! #AlfieandtheThief and #WeAreFamily! 🤯 Congrats to the other titles and huge shout out to @ChristiGabbitas and all the work she and the fab people at @ChildrensLFests do to champion children from disadvantaged backgrounds ❤️

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Our 2-year-old German Shepherd, Luna, has really got the whole 'cushion-bed' thing confused! Lol 🤣🤣

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Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

A bestseller!? Well, this is lovey to see! Spooky ghost stories about OCD with LGBTQ+ rep aren’t just for Halloween! #BookSky #KidLit #PrimaryEduSky #EduSky

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Joanna Moult @joannamoult.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Here are some lovely book publishing peeps you might like... 😀 go.bsky.app/kRfNFe

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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

One doesn't often see a poem in praise of school caretakers, so I wrote one. Free on my website - 'THE CARETAKER': www.joshuaseigal.co.uk/the-caretaker #EduSky #BookSky #Kidlit

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Liz Brownlee @lizpoet.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Here's my puffin poem as an animation - you'll find him and other poems by me and lots more kids' poets, poetry lessons, interviews with authors, book reviews etc on my website: www.poetryroundabout.com #kidlit #kidlitcommunity #Edusky youtu.be/p0dao3PqRBA

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Puffin, by Liz Brownlee, an animated shape poem

YouTube video by Liz Brownlee Poet

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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

A wonderful afternoon running a training session for teachers, about how to use poetry in the classroom. Get in touch if you’d like something similar, email is on my website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk #EduSky #BookSky #poetry #teachers

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Can't wait to buy a copy of #SkySurfing when it's available! It sounds amazing! 👌

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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I wrote an article in which I heavily critique one of my own poems. It's about 'success', and what it means to succeed. Some of you might find it interesting: joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2025/01/defy... @irasocol.bsky.social @alfiekohn.bsky.social @covingtonedu.bsky.social #EduSky #psychology

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I'm now into my fifth year of writing for @neunion.bsky.social's Educate magazine. It's something I enjoy doing and I'm delighted to have had over 30 articles published about the importance of reading. Hopefully, they've been useful. They can all be accessed for free here: neu.org.uk/latest/union...

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

TEACHERS! #edusky This one's called 'The Haircut' 🤦‍♂️ Using the prompt: 'Things that can go wrong at home', I've found it to be a really fun way to get kids to use their own lives as inspiration for writing and sharing their own stories and poems - enjoy 😊 Illustration: Ian Morris

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

#edusky Hello, teachers! Bit late to the party - I'm newly arrived from Twitter. I'm a children's author and poet, and will be posting lots of #poetry and #kidlit things. My writing is mostly inspired (in some way or other) by my rough, tough but happy childhood! 😊 Illustration: Ian Morris

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Oliver Sykes MBE BCAa @oliversykesauthor.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Hello all! #poetry #kidlit I'm Oliver, children's author and poet, nice to meet you all! 😊 Here's a performance of one of my poems, taken from my debut collection: youtu.be/POSiLpci9ls?...

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Bin Bags | POEM | Stories and Poems With Oliver Sykes

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