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The Best Cheltenham Children’s Literature Festival Events
The Cheltenham Literature Festival is a much-loved annual event that sees a host of talented writers and illustrators share their much-loved stories...
Roald Dahl Day Activity Ideas
There’s less than a week to go until Roald Dahl Day 2020 and we’re counting down the days here at Firefly Press HQ. Roald Dahl would have been 96...
The Best Edinburgh Book Festival Children’s Events 2020
"Sadly, this is the first year in many that neither I, nor Firefly will be involved directly. So, in spirit it will have to be, which is completely...
Five (and a half) Rules for Writing for Children by Robin Bennett
OUT 18 FEBRUARY 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVoU509O1vw Monster Max and the Bobble Hat of Forgetting author, Robin Bennett, shares his...
2020 Submissions Window Announcement
We are very excited to announce that we will be holding a submissions window
Perfect Place for a Plot: Writing Too Dark to See by Chloë Heuch
Too Dark to See by Chloë Heuch is a beautifully written coming of age YA novel that perfectly captures the intensity of being a teenager. Themes of...
Firefly Celebrates Empathy Day 2020: Read Connect Act
In recent weeks we’ve all seen how empathy is more important than ever, to help us listen to and understand others, enable us to help those in need,...
The Importance of Baking Cupcakes by Anna Mainwaring
On 2 April my first novel, Rebel with a Cupcake, is being reissued by Firefly Press with a beautiful new cover by Niki Pilkington. It’s about a...
Writing The Darkness for Young Adult Novella Collection Three Strikes
by Lucy Christoper This was a lovely project to be involved with. Here my novella, THE DARKNESS, is part of a collection of three darker-themed YA...
To celebrate Crater Lake, Leonie looks back at sci-fi with Firefly
by Leonie Lock (Bookseller and Firefly Intern) Join Lance and his friends Katja, Chet and Maksym on their spooky school trip to Crater Lake. Tense...
Chanukah and teenage homelessness by Miriam Halahmy
Miriam Halamy It’s the time of year when everyone is thinking about festivals of light which give a warm glow to our homes at the darkest point of...
On celebrating family and kindness this Christmas by Jennifer Killick
The concept for Alex Sparrow and the Zumbie Apocalypse struck before the first Alex Sparrow book was even published, and I remember, four...
Author Catherine Fisher on writing The Velvet Fox
Writing The Clockwork Crow and The Velvet Fox has been a real pleasure. It was great to write for a younger...
Q & A with Blackfin Sky, Purge and Three Strikes author Kat Ellis
To celebrate the publication of Three Strikes our intern Nia Thorne had a chat with the very lovely Kat...
Q & A with Ant Clancy Games Detective author Ruth Morgan
Read this brilliant blog by Ruth Morgan on why she has written a middle grade fiction about gaming ahead of...