BLOG BREAK Cosmic Competitions

Nick Cross presents his fortnightly selection of must-read SCBWI-BI member blogs.

Lu Hersey has a simple question for us: Is it really worth entering writing competitions?

Autumn is here (as one glance out of the window will confirm), so why not stay indoors with a warming drink and enjoy Catherine Friess's list of Favourite Autumn Picture Books.

And now a mammoth post (groan) from Sally Poyton as she blogs about her prehistoric animal obsession, and why recent news of mammoth cloning has got her rushing to submit her latest manuscript.

Finally, I've heard of some wacky places to have a writers' retreat, but in space??? Tracy Darnton does the thought experiment for us.

Nick.

*Feature image: Blog Break logo by Nick Cross

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Nick Cross is Words & Pictures' Blog Network Editor. An Undiscovered Voices winner, he both writes and illustrates for children, and was honours winner of the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for fiction.

Nick also blogs for Notes from the Slushpile. His most recent post finds him Mixing it Up - Challenging My Unconscious Biases to Add Diversity to My Writing