If Only They Knew – Storytale 2020 Teen Category Winning Story
The teen category of our Storytale Festival 2020 competition certainly didn’t disappoint! Inspired by both of our YA events, Gabriel Dylan’s Halloween Scare, and Kate Mallinder’s Feel-good Fiction…
The Somber Stare – Storytale 2020 ages 9-12 Category Winning Story
Thank you to everyone who took the time to write their story and send it to us. The Storytale team and our fabulous judge Nicola Skinner loved the diversity of the entries from…
Left Out – Storytale 2020 Competition Under 8’s Winning Story
Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s competition, we loved the diversity of the stories and pictures, and so did our judge Lucy Freegard who had the difficult job of…
An interview with…children’s author Julia Golding
We’re thrilled to be chatting to prolific children’s author Julia Golding today, just as her latest book, The Tigers in the Tower is published. It’s an exciting historical adventure story following…
An interview with… YA author Ellen-Arwen Tristram
Ellen-Arwen Tristam’s debut novel Fruit Forbidden came out in 2018 and is a modern tale of growing up and self discovery.
An interview with… children’s author Katharine Orton
Nevertell, Katharine Orton’s beautifully written novel for 9-12 year olds, transports young readers to the snowy wilderness of Russia in a magical and evocative debut. We’re thrilled to welcome her to the blog today to find out the secrets behind her writing process.
An interview with… children’s author Susie Bower
Today on our Storytale blog we have author Susie Bower whose novel for 8-11 year olds, School for Nobodies has just been published by Pushkin Press. Learn about her inspiration, her hurdles and some really interesting facts…
Storytale Festival and Big Book Weekend
Late on a Friday evening in April, Storytale’s Ellie and Kate managed to submit an application with three events to the Big Book Weekend.
Creative Collaboration, Rachel Falber and Samantha Miles
Collaborations are wonderful things. They inspire creativity, inspiration and motivation in a way that is completely unique. Both Sam and Rach are huge believers in collaboration which is one of the reasons their partnership has been a perfect pairing.
An interview with… children’s author Kate Frost
Our next interview is with Storytale Festival co-founder, Kate Frost, who’s the author of a time travel adventure trilogy Time Shifters, as well as writing for adults…
