It's Kiran

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a British poet, playwright and novelist. She was born in London on 29 March 1990, and started writing for publication in 2009.

Poems: Grace

Grace In the moments of his leaving himself his hands shook and could not take... Read more »

Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year 2018

The Way Past Winter was named as Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year at Christmas last... Read more »

Kirkus Reviews Books of the Year 2018 and USBBY Outstanding Books List 2019

While re-writing my bio for the US edition of The Way Past Winter (forthcoming from Chronicle... Read more »

The Deathless Girls

I am beside myself with excitement to finally be able to publicly talk about The Deathless... Read more »

Chapter One…

It was a winter they would tell tales about. A winter that arrived so sudden... Read more »

The Way Past Winter is printed!

Last week, I headed to Chatham in Kent to see The Way Past Winter be bound. It... Read more »

The Guardian chooses The Way Past Winter as one of the 50 biggest books of Autumn 2018!

One of only five children’s books selected. See the full list here. Preorder The Way Past... Read more »

The Literacy Tree selects The Way Past Winter!

And this is just the lovely opening! Read on here. You can pre-order The Way Past... Read more »

The Way Past Winter proofs

Proofs of my third book for kids have arrived! And they are beautiful. These will... Read more »

Vardø, coming 2020 from Picador

Here’s some news I’ve had to keep very quiet about…I’ve written a book for grown... Read more »

The Island at the End of Everything – out now in the USA!

The Island at the End of Everything is now available in the States! Here are some... Read more »

Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018

On the 22nd of March, Waterstones Piccadilly transformed into even more of a bookish wonderland,... Read more »

Haringey Children's Book Award 2018

A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to attend the Haringey Children’s Book... Read more »

The Jhalak Prize and the Children's Book Prize

I have had some more wonderful shortlisting news recently – The Island at the End of Everything... Read more »

Soul Keeping Company

I just learnt of the passing of my favourite poet, Lucie Brock-Broido, who died yesterday... Read more »

So long, 2017, & thanks for all the fish…

2017 – with its Weinsteins, ignorance, natural disasters compounded by human action, Brexit – hasn’t... Read more »

The Blue Peter Awards 2017

Thrilled to announce that The Island at the End of Everything has been shortlisted for Best Story... Read more »

Costa Book Awards Shortlists

I’m incredibly proud to be involved with the Costa Book Awards in two capacities: firstly, as... Read more »

La chica de tinta y estrellas – out October!

Incredibly excited that The Girl of Ink & Stars will soon be published by Atico in... Read more »

Inside His Dark Materials: Characters

With the release of The Book of Dust just around the corner, I’ve been discussing His Dark Materials... Read more »

Inside His Dark Materials: Reading Philip Pullman

With the release of The Book of Dust just around the corner, I’ve been discussing His Dark Materials... Read more »

His Dark Materials Readalong: The Subtle Knife

With The Book of Dust release around the corner, I’ve partaken in a re-read of His Dark... Read more »

His Dark Materials Readalong: The Northern Lights

With The Book of Dust release around the corner, I’ve partaken in a re-read of His Dark... Read more »

A month (& a bit) of madness

Well. If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll know it’s been quite a... Read more »

Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017

Last week, The Girl of Ink & Stars was awarded the Younger Fiction Prize, and was announced as... Read more »

FAB Book Awards

I had a lovely time yesterday at the FAB Book Awards! My friend and author... Read more »

British Book Awards

Something startlingly amazing happened a week ago! I discovered that The Girl of Ink & Stars has... Read more »

The Island at the End of Everything

A couple of weeks ago, I was incredibly lucky to see The Island at the End... Read more »

Oxfordshire Book Awards

I’m very excited to share that The Girl of Ink & Stars has been shortlisted for my... Read more »

Chapter One

The first chapter of The Island at the End of Everything is up on the Chicken House... Read more »

Branford Boase Award Longlist

The Girl of Ink & Stars has been long listed for the Branford Boase Award! This is... Read more »

BBC Radio Oxford Interview

Today I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Kat Orman at BBC Radio Oxford.... Read more »

Sheffield Children's Book Award 2017

Overjoyed The Girl of Ink & Stars has been shortlisted for the Sheffield Children’s Book Award, in... Read more »

Waterstones Children's Prize Shortlist

The Girl of Ink & Stars has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize! The other... Read more »

Jhalak Prize Shortlist

Here’s some news I never thought I’d be able to write about, because I imagined... Read more »

Book Two's First Trade Review!

Flicking through The Bookseller’s Spring Children’s buying guide, I was astonished to find The Island at... Read more »

It's official!

So happy to announce that I have signed up to three more books with my... Read more »

THIS WIDE NIGHT by Sarvat Hasin

This Wide Night by Sarvat Hasin My rating: 5 of 5 stars A vivid, swirling... Read more »

NaNoWriMo 2016

For those of you who aren’t aware, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. The goal... Read more »

Happy birthday take two

Dear THE GIRL OF INK & STARS THE CARTOGRAPHER’S DAUGHTER, Today you come out across... Read more »

Bolton Children's Fiction Award Shortlist

What a day! Just found out THE GIRL OF INK & STARS has also been... Read more »

Carnegie Award nomination

I am astounded. THE GIRL OF INK & STARS has been nominated for the Carnegie... Read more »

Waterstones and World Mental Health Day

It’s World Mental Health Day, and so today – like every day – I’m sending... Read more »

BookTrust's #TimetoRead campaign

Overjoyed to announce that THE GIRL OF INK & STARS has been selected as part... Read more »

Blackwell's Author of the Month

Blackwell’s Oxford is my gorgeous local bookshop and the site of the Oxford launch for The Girl... Read more »

The Times Children's Book of the Week

Very excitingly The Girl of Ink & Stars was The Times Children’s Book of the Week, and One... Read more »

A Dream Start…

I think I might be able to call myself a bestselling author. The Girl of... Read more »

Waterstones Children's book of the Month

The Girl of Ink and Stars has been given the best possible start. Not only have... Read more »

Much too much

Was there a worse month to fall behind on this blog? No, there was not.... Read more »

Books, birthdays, & book birthdays

This week has been a Big One for many wonderful reasons. On Tuesday it was... Read more »

What Really Matters

A few days ago the wonderful Abi Elphinstone posted this on Twitter: Wanted to say... Read more »

Endorsements

I’ve had some lovely feedback for THE GIRL OF INK AND STARS recently. I can’t... Read more »

Rights news

In the past two weeks I’ve had two lovely emails from Elinor, Chicken House’s Rights... Read more »

MY VIEW ON: UNBECOMING by Jenny Downham

Unbecoming by Jenny Downham My rating: 5 of 5 stars Got this after seeing it... Read more »

Pullman and Proofs

A picture speaks a thousand words, an embedded tweet speaks that plus 140 characters, so... Read more »

Writing, the universe, and everything

“What I need… is a strong drink and a peer group.” Douglas Adams, LIFE, THE... Read more »

THE GIRL OF INK AND STARS packshots!

So excited to be able to share the beautiful packshots* with you – hope you... Read more »

FEN by Daisy Johnson

‘When we were young we learnt men the way other people learnt languages or the... Read more »

FRIDAY FIVE: M.G. Leonard

In case you hadn’t already noticed from this, I am a huge fan of this... Read more »

Happy New Year!

I hope 2016 is a good one for you. Today I’ve been invited to two... Read more »

FRIDAY FIVE: Perdita and Honor Cargill

Welcome to the first Friday Five! I’m very happy that my inaugural guests are Perdita... Read more »

My view on: THE LIE TREE by Frances Hardinge

EDIT: I’ve decided to stop calling these ‘reviews’. I’m not trying to be a professional... Read more »

My view on: THE SHORE by Sara Taylor

EDIT: I’ve decided to stop calling these ‘reviews’. I’m not trying to be a professional... Read more »

My view on: BEETLE BOY by M.G. Leonard

EDIT: I’ve decided to stop calling these ‘reviews’. I’m not trying to be a professional... Read more »

Some changes…

One thing I’ve loved most about my writing journey so far is the support you... Read more »

Rights news

THE GIRL OF INK AND STARS has found its third home (outside the US and... Read more »

The Next Step…

Just when I thought I was over the anxiety/joy of finishing copy-edits, this tweet popped up... Read more »

LET IT GO

Guys, big news. Two years after finishing my first draft and a year after getting... Read more »

BOAT

I probably should have mentioned BOAT on here at some point in the last four... Read more »

…well this is awkward.

I’m really into my four-month blog hiatuses, aren’t I? Let’s just pretend that didn’t happen.... Read more »

Editing Update

A quick note before I collapse in a pile, but quite a lot to fill... Read more »

Saboteur Awards

I had the best Sunday EVER! To start, I have to go back a week to... Read more »

Something borrowed…

I just wanted to highlight a couple of blogposts about writing that I’ve read recently... Read more »

Crazy cars and other stories

So. I’m going to walk the line between sharing and over-sharing, and tell you about... Read more »

MUG!

Just wanted to share the most recent piece of The Cartographer’s Daughter merchandising (after the... Read more »

Aisha Farr on œ

Extract: Millwood Hargrave’s poetry was a real strength of the performance, the writing containing an... Read more »

New York, New York

I’m back! But physically, I’m away – in Washington D.C., to be precise. My mum... Read more »

'…a riot is the language of the unheard' MLK

Two months since I visited here. Been busy doing (mainly) writer related things. A lot... Read more »

End of the Road

Optional soundtrack: Yesterday, something unnerving happened. My friend/housemate and brilliant writer Daisy and I were... Read more »

Writer, Writing

Forgive me blog, for I have sinned. It has been forty-four days since my last... Read more »

Get Over It

The news has just broken that Robin Williams has died. It is seemingly suicide. According... Read more »

To Frame Or Not To Frame

Ahhh, framing devices. They are tricky things; done cynically, it is the worst kind of... Read more »

I'm official!

My author page is up on Janklow and Nesbit’s website. May have had a little happy... Read more »

A beginning, a middle and an end

A longer post this week. Firstly I’m so glad I could tell you all my... Read more »

THE CARTOGRAPHER'S DAUGHTER – the exciting news

Drumroll please… I can finally announce that The Cartographer’s Daughter will be published by Chicken House Books in the... Read more »

Ready. Set. WRITE! update

Nope, still can’t tell you my exciting news. I am about to pop with excitement... Read more »

Ready. Set. WRITE! {2014}

The Big News has to wait while some details are worked out, but in the... Read more »

Holding post

Hello! I have some big news to announce at the end of the week, but... Read more »

I'm still alive!

Sorry for the long silence. I am in that curious state of limbo that is Submissions, combined... Read more »

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: “You are not alone.”

Keeping Roald Dahl’s quote from Matilda close as today it’s submissions day for The Cartographer’s Daughter. As... Read more »

"A word after a word after a word is power" – Margaret Atwood

Stumbling/tumblr-ing across Atwood’s quote reminded me of another I found (and lost) recently, which was... Read more »

Writer, Waiting – How to cope

The best part of being a writer, is writing. The hardest part, for me at... Read more »

Glossary

When I first started corresponding with agents and reading authors’ blogs, there were a few... Read more »

Poetry Corner

If you are here for news of the prose ilk, I apologise – today’s post... Read more »

Purrrgatory, or, How I came to have an agent – the short version

I’m sorry I’m not sorry for the cat gifs. And the needless* cat pun in... Read more »

“Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.”

The above quote is the opening line of Gabriel García Márquez‘s first novel One Hundred Years of... Read more »