Holly Webb started writing eighteen years ago while working as an editor at a children’s publisher. She now writes full-time, and has written over a hundred and fifty books, which have been translated into thirty-three languages. Her most recent titles are The Homesick Kitten and the Museum Kittens books (Little Tiger) and The Story of…
Josh Lacey has written about 40 books for children and one for adults. In the past, he worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a screenwriter. He has written for various age groups, and his books range from The Pet Potato, a picture book illustrated by Momoko Abe, to middle-grade novels like The Island of…
Lisa Fransson is a bilingual writer living in Sussex, with her husband and three children. In her native Swedish, Lisa’s an award-winning children’s author, while in her adopted English she’s a writer of flash fiction, fairytales and novels-in-progress. She’s represented by Intersaga Literary Agency who is working on the foreign rights to her children’s books….
Rachel Faturoti is a YA and children’s fiction author, poet and editor committed to broadening the scope of authentic Black representation in YA and children’s fiction. A British Nigerian, she works as a sensitivity reader specialising in race and gender issues. Her novels Sadé and Her Shadow Beasts (Hodder Children’s) and Finding Folkshore (Jacaranda) are…
Isabel Thomas is a science writer and the author of more than 200 books for young audiences. They include Moth: An Evolution Story, winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books, and Fox: A Circle of Life Story, which the Guardian described as ‘the perfect book for talking to children about death’. She also writes for science magazines…
Alice Harman is an author and editor of children’s books. Alice has written 43 children’s books, about everything from art to outer space. Alice’s psychology quiz book, Who Do You Think You Are? was longlisted for the 2021 Blue Peter Book Awards, and her book Modern Art Explorer has been featured in The New York Times amongst others. She…
A. M. DASSU is the internationally acclaimed author of Boy, Everywhere, which was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, nominated for the Carnegie Medal, is the 2021 winner of The Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction and is also an American Library Association Notable Book. She is former deputy editor, now an Advisory Board Member…
Rebecca is a children’s author, a screenwriter and a producer. Rebecca writes picture books, poetry, creative non-fiction and early readers. Her publishers include Macmillian, Penguin Random House, Collins, Nosy Crow and the National Trust, to name but a few. Before writing for children, she taught English in Taiwan, worked for a Russian comedian, travelled the…
Ian is a children’s TV writer, playwright and author of 23 children’s books. His first radio play ‘Spike and the Elfin Oak’ was nominated for Best New Writer at the BBC Audio Awards. His latest BBC radio plays include ‘Happiness!’ and ‘Puckoon’ for BBC Radio Four. Photo © Aimee Spinks
Teddy works on SoA communications and outreach and alongside the Policy department on the SoA’s campaigns work. He is also co-coordinator of the Children’s Writers and Illustrators Group. [email protected]
Leads the advisory team and advises members on publishing contracts and issues. Sarah also handles our literary estates, including professional stage licences.
