LUCY CUTHEW CHILDREN'S AUTHOR
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"Blood Moon is one of the best YA debuts I’ve read in years. Moving, compelling and bold, it filled me with such hope. It’s a very special book.” 
Louise O'Neill
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I am the author of over thirty books for children. My debut novel BLOOD MOON (published by Walker Books), is a YA verse novel about periods, sex and online shaming. BLOOD MOON was nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the 2021 Amazing Book Awards, and featured on the Reading Agency's #WonderWomenBooklist. It was also shortlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award in 2019 and came highly commended in the United Agents/Bath Spa Prize in 2018. Find more about it here. I am also an Associate Lecturer on the MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa, and speak on the BBC about children’s literature. 

I have an MA in in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University, an MPhil in Children’s Literature and a BA (hons) in English. You can find links to my academic work and other articles here. I worked in children’s publishing for ten years before I became an author, and was shortlisted for the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize, which celebrates the achievements of young women in publishing.

My published works for younger children include picture books, educational texts, phonics books and short stories. You can find out more about these titles here. My picture book, Back to School Tortoise, was shortlisted for three awards, including the CCBC Choice Award and was featured on CBeebies Book at Bedtime. I also write short stories and poetry. Some of them are here. 

I visit schools to talk about poetry and writing. For more information on school visits, please contact me here. 

Representation: Rachel Mann, Jo Unwin Literary Agency
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Could not be more proud to share that Blood Moon has been nominated for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal. I am absolutely beaming. #happyauthor #careergoals #ckg2021 #cilipcarnegiemedal

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□ This one time last year, on a chilly night, I went to The Vagina Museum and marvelled at it. It is such a triumph. Myth busting. Taboo smashing. Information providing. I’d donated to their crowdfunder months before and was so happy to see it had come off and the museum had opened! There is this brilliant glittery menstrual corner, which I’m standing in, and loads more like a display about vulva hygiene (just use water) and a brilliant shop with books, postcards, clothes and on-theme jewellery. □ AND you can now buy my book in their shop! The museum is closed for now but their online shop is open and has so much brilliant stuff. See second pic! JOY! □ My deepest apologies for making you look at a picture of a person in a coat & scarf during this boiling hot time. □ Peace and fannies to you all. X✌️□ #vulva #vulvapower #period #periodpowerful #periodpower #bloodybooks #vulvalicious #menstruation #menstrualhygieneday #menstrualcycle #tampon #tamponart #tamponsarenotaluxury #menstrualcup #periodproducts #glitterblood #vaginamuseum #camden #bloodmoon #cysters #cystersquad #bookshop #bookshopping #periodbooks #itsonlyblood #noshame #endperiodshame #walkofnoshame #walkerya

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I wrote a poem for @bloodygoodperiod in honour of National Poetry Day. Peace and periods ✌️□ • @bloodygoodperiod It's #NationalPoetryDay today! We thought you'd appreciate this piece by the marvellous @lucycuthew, author of Blood Moon and bloody good friend of BGP! ⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ ⁠ #BloodMoon #NoShame #YA #WalkerBooks #BloodyGoodPeriod #nationalpoetryday #bookstagram⁠ #PeriodEquity #BloodyReading #BloodyBooks #BloodMoon #NoShame #YA #WalkerBooks #BloodyGoodPeriod #WalkerBooksUk #bookstagram⁠ #PeriodEquity #BloodyReading #BloodyBooks #MenstruationMatters #LetOurPeopleFlow #PeriodPower #PeriodTalk #PeriodPositive #PeriodPowerful #Menstruation #BloodyBabes ⁠#shareapoem ⁠ ⁠

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I’m just an author, with a book out in *hardback* in America, standing in my hallway taking a selfie with it because it’s pretty. Are any of my followers in actual America? Has anyone seen it in a bookstore? If so PLEASE PLEASE take a picture and tag me. It feels like a total fantasy that there are really copies of my book out there somewhere. □ □ Also, periods are normal and not shameful ✌️ □ #periodpowerful #bloodmoon #period #periods #periodproblems #ya #yabooks #ukya #yareads #noshame #endperiodshame #endperiodstigma #endperiodtaboo #endometriosis #endometriosisawareness #endthestigma #menstrualcup #mensturation #menstrualcycle #cysterhood #lucycuthew #periodsarenormal #stemgirls #physicsfun #thighs

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Yay!! Thank you @worldbookdaysocial for including Blood Moon on your recommended reads for teens this summer. Check out their page for other fabulous summer reads. ✌️☀️ #worldbookday #bloodmoon #summerreads #summerholidays #periods #letstalkaboutperiods #periodpowerful #endperiodshame #nomoreperiodshame #cysters #endometriosis #periodproblems #periodsex #periodsexpositive #endperiodstigma #periodstigma #bloodybooks #girlsinstem #stemgirls #stemgirlsrock #stemgirlswag #swag

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Holy moly. A starred review from @kirkus_reviews !! Screaming about this. I’m so grateful to all the librarians who have read and reviewed Blood Moon who recognise how urgently we need to talk to high schoolers about periods, that we need to bop period shame on the head and that we can do that by confronting it. I so hope my book will help do this in some small way. *doing a very ridiculous dance because my excitement has to come out somehow* □ □ This edition is out in hardback in the US on September 1st with @walkerbooksus. And in case you missed my story yesterday THE BACK COVER HAS A BUTT ON IT. □□ #kirkusreviews #yabooks #yareads #yalit #bloodybooks #periods #periodpowerful #menstruationart #bloodmoon #periods #menstruation #periodpositive #periodproblems #period #menstruationmatters #womenshealth #menstrualcycle #menstrualhealth #menstrualcup #periodcramps #periodsbelike #pms #periodpower #periodtalk #women #periodstories #periodmemes #tampons #feminism #girlpower #feminist

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