For the second year at Just Write For Kids Australia, we offered an opportunity for author-illustrators of children’s books to submit a piece to our Picture It! Anthology Call-Out. The theme for this year was ‘LOST’, where artists were to interpret the metaphor in their own imagining, and incorporate our two new loveable characters, Walter […]
The Just Write For Kids inaugural Pitch It! Competition is returning for the seventh year, and the team are SO excited to announce some NEW updates with a range of resources and opportunities to help you on your publishing journey! But first. A bit about our competition … Your pitch is often your first point of contact […]
Welcome to #TheQuickSixInterview with Mary Anastasiou! Thanks so much to multi-talented author, editor, designer and marketing manager, Mary Anastasiou, for flying in to share one of her latest creations – the cutest Halloween picture book around, Tilly’s New Broom. The perfectly-timed rhyming couplets work harmoniously with Giorgia Clerico‘s adorably spooky illustrations to capture little witch […]
Just Write For Kids Australia’s first Picture It! Anthology Competition for local artists and illustrators of children’s books was held throughout June and July (and some of August!) as an initiative to raise the profiles of our wonderful illustrators and creatives, to raise donations for The Indigenous Literacy Foundation, and to produce a stunning anthology […]
Author-illustrators! Would you like to be a part of a wildly wonderful and beautifully-crafted anthology that encapsulates the complete joy of our land… and gives back to the community? We’re looking to view Australia through a colourful lens of diversity – from our stunning landscapes to our iconic parts of nature, a unified community of […]
Title: I want to be a Rock Star Author: Mary Anastasiou Illustrator: Anil Tortop Publisher: Lil’Rebel Books Genre: Picture Book Age Group: 5-10 years Please tell us a bit of what your book is about. ‘I want to be a Rock Star’ is a discovery of the many genres of music through imagination and play. […]
