LondonsBIGread

Bringing Londoners together through reading to celebrate our community & the diversity of this great city #LondonsBIGREAD #ReadShareVote #London #Books

[LondonsBIGread @LondonsBIGread]

Vote is Now Open - Vote for your favourite author & be part of a new London Community Fourteen Incredible Authors invite you to read their books, share your reviews. #ReadShareVote #WorldBookDay19 #FemaleEmpowerment TO VOTE: https://t.co/oSEVNBYRWy

[LondonsBIGread @LondonsBIGread]

"That's why The Midult is here. If we're not in it together, we're not in it at all." Wise words from the ever so popular 'I'm Absolutely Fine!: A Manual for Imperfect Women', our 2nd place runner up for this years @LondonsBIGread Well done to @AnnabelRivkin & @emiliemcmeekan!

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We’d like to give a huge congratulations to our winner of London’s BIG Read 2019 ‘Emily Knight... I am... Awakened’ @abiolabello ✨ Our runners up are ‘I’m Absolutely Fine!’ & ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’ Thank you to all the authors that participated and everyone that voted!

[Abiola Bello @ABelloWrites]

Grab a free ticket for May 15th Girls Can Do Anything, part of @LondonsBIGread Use the promo code:girlscandoanything2019 to get it for FREE! Speakers @karenball @speckledpen @Phoebe_A_Morgan @TrapezeBooks https://t.co/nr1rqVu84S
#GirlsCanDoAnything
#WritingCommunity
#editing

[KatherineH @KHwritenow]

Thank you @Mslexia @literallypr @LondonsBIGread for my fantastic prize bundle! Thrilled to have won. Can't wait to read this brilliant books

[LondonsBIGread @LondonsBIGread]

Tickets available at eventbrite for card payments otherwise cash entry donations at door for @childsliteracy - supporting literacy

[Francesca Baker-Brooker @andsoshethinks]

Tonight, #WorldBookNight join us for a poetry and spoken word celebration @LIBRARYLondon @LondonsBIGread https://t.co/dcQNifl8y5 #poetry #spokenword #londonevents #London

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

'And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.'

― William Shakespeare, #BOTD in 1564.

[LondonsBIGread @LondonsBIGread]

@TimeOutLondon @London_Events @londonEvents @bigLondonevents @whatsonlondonUK

[Francesca Baker-Brooker @andsoshethinks]

Tonight, #WorldBookNight join us for a poetry and spoken word celebration @LIBRARYLondon @LondonsBIGread https://t.co/dcQNifl8y5 #poetry #spokenword #londonevents #London

[LondonsBIGread @LondonsBIGread]

@WorldBookNight @WorldBookDayUK join us tonight for a fabulous lineup of #poets #spokenword tonight @LIBRARYLondon

[Francesca Baker-Brooker @andsoshethinks]

Tonight, #WorldBookNight join us for a poetry and spoken word celebration @LIBRARYLondon @LondonsBIGread https://t.co/dcQNifl8y5 #poetry #spokenword #londonevents #London

[Francesca Baker-Brooker @andsoshethinks]

Cool news for a Fri afternoon! I'm organising a night of poetry and spoken word @LIBRARYLondon for @LondonsBIGread @WorldBookNight. Ten of the best poets and performers in the south east will be there spinning magic out of words. Want to join us? https://t.co/f2qUEGB4vH

[The Literary Consultancy @TLCUK]

What a lovely initiative to encourage reading and appreciation of literature; this book day, the Netherlands made train journeys free for everyone who presented a book instead of a ticket. Now this is something we could get on board with: https://t.co/E26pfYIs9z #books #commute

[Children's Bookshop @Lindley_Books]

This is brilliant.

[LondonsBIGread @LondonsBIGread]

Don’t forget to vote for your favourite shortlisted book for @LondonsBIGread - https://t.co/nmd4bZiVoh

[Hot Key Books ✨📚 @HotKeyBooks]

Send in a question for @LauraDockrill #TeamDockrill before 9pm and we will enter you into a prize draw to #win a signed copy of @yabookprize shortlisted body positive LOL-a-minute Big Bones (will send with added food stickers!) 💕🍎🍉🍕🍿🍳🍰🍣

[LondonsBIGread @LondonsBIGread]

What are your top tips to get children reading?

[Tes magazine @tes]

Reading for pleasure boosts pupil attainment, but how do you get children into books in the first place? Here are five ways to spread a love of literature from the @Literacy_Trust #hayfestival

https://t.co/3thDtLamIF

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What do you need to write? #UKWritersSurvey

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

Virginia Woolf said that to be a writer, a woman needed money & a room of her own. We want to know what UK writers need today in order to flourish professionally. Writers! Complete our survey. Tell us what you need to thrive. https://t.co/pflNR4gYpu #UKWritersSurvey #ARoomOfMyOwn

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Great way to celebrate #InternationalChildrensBookDay

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

We're spending #InternationalChildrensBookDay, reading some of our all-time favourite children's books.

Which children's book(s) could you read over and over again?

[The Poetry Society @PoetrySociety]

The winner of the 2018 #TedHughesAward for New Work in Poetry is Raymond Antrobus for The Perseverance. Congratulations!

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

We are delighted to announce the longlist for the 2019 #RSLOndaatje Prize, awarded annually to a book – fiction, non-fiction or poetry – which best evokes the spirit of a place. This is the first time we have announced a longlist - in celebration of the 15th year of the Prize.

[Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature]

'I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.'

― Flannery O'Connor, #BOTD in 1925.

[Tiny Owl Publishing @TinyOwl_Books]

"Buy children you know, of any ethnicity, books featuring BAME characters!" Just one of @NicoletteJones' five brilliant suggestions for how to increase the visibility of diverse children's books. Discover the others here! #DiversityNow https://t.co/T6tNU2ZpCF

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It was due to her efforts and campaigning that the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and the Married Women's Property Act 1870 were passed. For her poems: https://t.co/DkvZUnZsht

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Famous women from #London born on this day & to celebrate #WorldPoetryDay: #CarolineNorton was a significant literary figure author & #poet & social reformer of the Victorian era. She challenged society & campaigned for giving married women basic legal rights in Britain