I recently participated in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Hook competition; a Dragons’ Den style event for five writers and illustrators brave/stupid* enough to pitch their work in front of a panel of four top literary agents and a rather large and overwhelming audience. The winner snags a one to one […]

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I am the least diverse person I know. White. British. Male. Heterosexual. Able-bodied. Not disadvantaged socio-economically (though, I am proud of my Northern working class roots). I could go on, but I’m sure you get the point. Despite this lack of personal diversity – or maybe because of it – I have a natural tendency […]

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Oscar Wilde once said he was too fond of reading books to care to write them. For a long time I agreed. After all, it’s much easier to read a book than it is to actually write one. It’s only when middle age slapped me in the face did I have a change of heart – […]

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Dale Hannah is an award winning writer. His unpublished novel; The Multiple Lives of Haroon Patel, has won both a 2014 Northern Writers’ Award and the 2014 Commonword Writing for Children Diversity Prize. His middle grade novel; Billy Grimshaw and the Mystery of the Missing Humans was longlisted for the 2016 Bath Children’s Novel Award. […]

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