Children's Books North: Summer Social in Edinburgh

 CBN SUMMER SOCIAL 


EDINBURGH, JUNE 2023

We had an absolutely fantastic time meeting members old and new at our annual Summer Social last week. This year we held the event in Edinburgh, as we want to host in-person events in each of our different regions. (So we'll be meeting the the North East next summer!) It was our first Children's Books North event in Scotland, and wonderful to get together in such a vibrant literary city and see so many local members. 

We had a brilliant turnout of authors, illustrators and publishing folk, around 50 people in total, including some of our current and previous mentees from our Mentor Scheme - thank you to everyone for making them so welcome! 

CBN co-founders and mentees

It was lovely as ever to meet in person and make new contacts as well as hearing what everyone is up to and celebrating what we've achieved through the network this last year. (We may have raised a glass or two to quite a big project that we've finally finished work on and will be announcing soon...) 


Thank you to everyone who came and made it the fun and friendly event it was, and a special thank you to Sarah Broadley for being our resident photographer! 






 We're already looking forward to the next one!

Tilda, Emma and Liz x

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