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WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Children's Publishing

Our curated list of the 2025 Longlist continues, inspiring the next generation of young readers.

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WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Book Covers

This years Longlist combines bold illustration with decisive design to showcase a wide range of narratives. The Book Cover category captures everything from haunting accounts of history to fantastical middle grade novels.

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Bringing illustration communities together

This Volunteers’ Week we take a moment to highlight our incredible Meet Up Hosts and look back on a thought-provoking day spent together in Somerset House.

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WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Animation

The Longlist has landed! We’ll be showcasing some of the fantastic entries selected for our Longlist, starting with the Animation category.

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WIA2025 Longlist announcement

The judges have made their decisions, and we are delighted to announce the 500-strong longlist for this year’s World Illustration Awards competition.

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WIA2025 - Longlist Category Highlights: Advertising

The Longlist has landed! We’ll be showcasing some of the fantastic entries selected for our Longlist, starting with the Advertising category.

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Revealing the AOI Mentees 2025

Meet the 27 illustrators selected to take part in this year’s AOI Mentorship scheme, designed to support and champion underrepresented illustrators.

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Meta AI training opt out for Facebook and Instagram

Opt out of Meta’s scraping of content on Facebook and Instagram to train their generative AI.

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Shortlist announced for the Klaus Flugge Prize 2025

The shortlist for the Klaus Flugge Prize has been announced, with Emma Farrarons, Mikey Please and Rhian Stone chosen from a longlist of 15 titles.

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