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rukiyashanthi.bsky.social
... is writing. #kidlit writer all about forgotten histories. Currently focused on ancient Indian Ocean adventures!
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What do I mean by "forgotten histories"? Those that are unknown by most people, aren't taught in many schools and don't get written or talked about enough. But they can be powerful in teaching us how we are more alike than different. And how history repeats itself (big time! 😳) /1

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

great to see @eyesab2.bsky.social 's Running My Own Race in here 👏🏽 🙌🏽 📖

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Happy We Need Diverse Books Day! 📚 Celebrating over here with a pile of diverse books for all ages. Be sure to follow @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social for more recs all year long & seek them out in your bookstores, schools, and libraries. #weneeddiversebooks #weneeddiversebooksday #booksky

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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This was such a lovely event @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Lots of insightful titbits for writers just starting out like me! Thanks ☺️

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Literature development agency Spread the Word has unveiled the 24 London-based writers selected for the 2025 London Writers Award. 👇 #BookSky

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

So thrilled to congratulate the new London Writers Award winners and to be a trustee for Spread The Word: www.thebookseller.com/news/spread-...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Announcing the #LondonWritersAwards2025 Awardees! The London Writers Awards is our annual fiction development programme, aiming to increase the number of writers from under-represented communities getting agents and publishers spreadtheword.org.uk/announcing-the-2025-london-writers-awards-winners/

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So excited to be selected as one of the 24 winners of the #LondonWritersAwards2025 - a 10-month development programme from @spread-the-word.bsky.social. I'll be one of 5 other #kidlit writers 😊 Can't wait!

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

Hello #kidlit world 👋🏽 (and yes, I did psych myself up to finally post something 😂)

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