CurrentlyChildren's Programme Director, Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010, 2011, 2012 Chair, St Hilda's College Media Network Director, St Hilda's College Writers' Day, Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010, 2011, 2012 Editor Highbury/Finsbury Park Neighbours' News (online community news alert) since February 2008 PastJudge of Chartwells children's letter-writing contest The Write Stuff with Prue Leith and Oxford Brookes vice chancellor Janet Beer 2011 (and in 2010) Judge of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 with Michael Rosen, Shappi Khorsandi, Philip Ardagh and Bruce Ingman Trustee, Read: The Reading Agency (library development body) 2000-2009 Judge of the Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Awards 2009 (administered by the British Maritime Charitable Foundation) Steering Committee, The Big Picture Campaign (picturebook promotion) 2007-2009 Chair, Ten Best New Illustrators panel, 2008 Macmillan Prize judge 2007, 2008 and 2009 (for unpublished children's illustrators) Chair, Carnegie/Greenaway Medal Anniversary Top 10 selection panel 2007 Branford Boase Award judge 2007 (for a first children's book) Chair, Children's Laureate selectors 2005 www.booktrusted.co.uk/childrenslaureate Orange Prize judge 2003 (for fiction by women) Whitbread Book Award(now Costa) children's book category judge 1999 Kurt Maschler Award judge 1999 (for an illustrated children's book) |
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