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Book Launch: A Viking Legend by Aoife Lennon-Ritchie
Join us as we meet author and literary agent Aoife Lennon-Ritchie, hear about her new book, and experience a lively discussion between her and popular novelist Diane Awerbuck on the fantasy genre within South Africa. There will, of course, be time at the end for Q&A and signings.
Our 2019 Call for Submissions
We are a boutique publishing house for kids' books and young-adult literature in South Africa, and we're calling for manuscript submissions. Send us your novels, picture books, and more!
South African Slang Everyone Should Know
As a South African publishing house, we delight in expressing our lekker local culture... although sometimes it can be difficult for others to understand just what we're saying.
Top 5 Quotes from Writers and Poets
At Imagnary House, we are inspired and motivated by the incredible writers of history to continue doing what we do. In this blog, you can read about our publisher's top 10 quotes from writers and poets around the world that motivate him to continue publishing great children's books and young-adult literature.
Our 2018 Call for Submissions
We are a boutique publishing house for kids' books and young-adult literature in South Africa. Aaaaaand, jumpin' jiminy! We're calling for submissions. Our priority this year is to find young-adult fantasy, science-fiction, and alternative history novels. We're also looking for children's chapter books and picture books that are sophisticated, fun and imaginative. We are not looking for educational, didactic, or moral-focused stories.
Book Launch: The Straw Giant and the Crow
Join us as we launch The Straw Giant and the Crow, a truly heartfelt and off-the-wall story of unlikely friendships and of what love really means. Author and artist Jess Bosworth Smith will be doing a live reading of the book, with some fun straw activities to be had at the same time.
A Call for Submissions this July 2017
Get excited! On the 1st of July 2017, we're opening up our submissions, and are looking to build up our publication list for the next 2 years. We're looking for stories that are fun and imaginative, but also address current societal issues for children. We want simple stories that mean something and can feed positively into our children's futures. However, we're not after didactic or educational texts, and definitely lean towards manuscripts that can travel.
How to Write a Children’s Picture Book in 5 Steps
As with any art form, writing comes in many shapes and sizes. Writing a novel is nothing like writing a children's picture book, and yet they both come from the same raw creative stuff that writers hold dear.
As a publisher of children's literature, we thought it was a rather smart thing to explain how to write a kids' book based on what books we've enjoyed reading.
Supporting Arts Education in South Africa
Our debut author and illustrator has just involved himself in a wonderful initiative called Sk8 for Gr8. Spending 4 workshops where he tutored Ayanda Koerte (16) in design and illustration, Brad Harris was inspired to create this beautiful skateboard design in honour of the younger designer.
B. D. Harris on Writing Children's Books
We are so proud to have our debut author featured on South Africa's premier creative journal, Design Indaba, and interviewed on writing and illustrating children's books.
The Bear-er of Dreams
Our debut publication includes a wonder of stories by B.D. Harris, just like this tale about The Bear-er of Dreams that captures children's imagination in a special way.
Our Debut Author | B. D. Harris
We are proud to announce our debut author and publication: Seven by B. D. Harris. Harris is a writer and illustrator of children's books, living and working in Woodstock, Cape Town. This is what he had to say about writing, when we asked him...
