News!
News!
December 2026 Picturebook Retreat in Rome with Inky Larks - find out more here!
May 2026 New website launched!
March 2026 Nighty Night Dinos has a Kirkus review
March 2026 What Will I Be From A-Z is a 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards finalist!
October 2025 Big Ideas from Science published by The School of Life
July 2025What Will I Be From A-Z featured on Day to Day with Mariahwith author Laura W Carter
June 2025 What Will I Be From A-Zpublished by Familius in the US
June 2025 CB1 Summer Market at Cambridge Train Station
May 2025Looking for Mummypublished in Swedish - En kram från Mamma
April 2025Looking for Mummypublished in Norwegian - En klem fra mamma
December 2024 CB1 Christmas Market at Cambridge Train Station
December 2024 Featured on the Kidlit Love Podcast with Laura W Carter
September 2024 Featured on Drawing With Your Kids
September 2024 Featured in the 2024 Bird Box Gallery Art Trail
July 2024 Featured on Reading With Your Kids podcast with Laura W Carter
May 2024 Window painting for Brookside Family Consultation Clinic, funded by the Head to Toe Charity
April 2024 Launch of my newsletter Anna Doherty: Monthly Moment
April 2024 A Steminist Force published by Familius in the UK
March 2024A Steminist Force published by Familius in the US
March 2024 Big Ideas from Literature published by The School of Life
December 2023 Window painting for Brookside Family Consultation Clinic, funded by the Head to Toe Charity
December 2023 #KidLitforPeace charity raffle
October 2023Ask Me About… Dinosaurs is published in the UK and Germany!
September 2023Sticky is featured on BBC Alba Stòiridh Series 5, Episode 10
August 2023Lots of Dots event at the Edinburgh Book Festival
June 2023 Interview with Cochrane
May 2023 Picture Books to Non-Fiction – An Evening with Anna Doherty; AOI Meet Ups
March 2023Human Town wins the 2023 Derby Children’s Picture Book Award
March 2023 Big Ideas from History released in the US
March 2023 Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour: Anna Doherty and The National Museum of Computing virtual event
March 2023 Lots of Dots is published by Tiny Owl
January 2023Best Test released in USA
January 2023 Human Town shortlisted for theDerby Children's Picture Book Award!
January 2023 Emma Watson featured in the Reading Rocks subscription box
November 2022 Window design installed at Cambridge University Press Bookshop
November 2022 Emma Watson published in paperback
November 2022 Michelle Obama published in paperback
October 2022 Big Ideas from History published by The School of Life
September 2022 Dutch edition of Looking for Mummy, Waar is mama? is published by Veltman Uitgevers
September2022 Guest on Books of Wonder virtual panel Picture Book Biographies for Storytime
September 2022 Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing events: How to write inspiring children’s literature and Illustration workshop
June 2022 Pride window display at Cambridge University Press Bookshop
June 2022Ada Lovelace is published in paperback
June 2022 The Brontës is published in paperback
April 2022 How To Write About Science for Kids course launched with Lifeology
April 2022 Human Town published by Tiny Owl
March 2022 Bedtime for Ducklingpublished by Little Tiger Press (UK) and Tiger Tales (USA)
February 2022 Storytelling Through Picture Books interview on Teacher's Pet
February 2022 Playtime on the Farm published by Tiger Tales (USA)
February 2022 Looking for Mummy published by Little Tiger Press (UK) and Tiger Tales (USA)
January 2022 Window design installed at the Clayton Hotel Cambridge in association with Cambridge BID’s Winter Wanderland 2022
December 2021 Best Test wins Books for Topics' Book of the Year in the EYFS (Ages 3-5) Best Children's Favourite category
December 2021 Window design installed at Cambridge University Press Bookshop
November 2021 Virtual Scottish Book Week visit to East Dunbartonshire libraries
September 2021 Window design installed at Cambridge University Press Bookshop
September 2021 Fair Shares Turkish co-edition Kardeş Payı published by Vidhata Yayınları
August 2021 Launch of What is COVID 19? A Story for Kids, a project with Lilly and Lifeology
July 2021Best Test listed as a Books for Topics top summer read!
June 2021 Signed with Kids Corner, Meiklejohn
May 2021 T-shirts design for cancer research organisation Tumor Talk
April 2021 Unlocked: How Tiny Owl illustrators coped with lockdown (anthology) published by Tiny Owl
April 2021 Guest speaker at SYP Scotland AGM
April 2021 Best Test published by Tiny Owl
April 2021 Birds publishes
February 2021 Instagram Live with @mommylovesbooks
January 2021Evelyn Carmon Nicol project featured in Lifeology’s top 5 2020 courses!
January 2021What is an AICD? course with Lifeology launched
October 2020 Emma Watson virtual book launch on Instagram!
October 2020 Emma Watson published by Wren and Rook, Hachette Children's Group
August 2020 Involved in a live chat, How to Talk to Kids About Science and Risk with Lifeology
August 2020 Evelyn Carmon Nicol project with Lifeology launched
July 2020 Window painting at Portobello Book Shop
June 2020 Fair Shares Dutch co-edition Eerlijk Delen published by Ploegsma
June 2020 Fair Shares US co-edition published by Kane Miller
June 2020 Featured in Scottish Book Trust's virtual #ScotFriendlyBookTour with Ada Lovelace
June 2020 Blog post on Lifeology about Ada Lovelace and the portrayal of women in STEAM in picture books
May 2020 Featured on Lifeology's blog about Women in STEAM
May 2020 Lifeology Women in STEAM project launched
April 2020 Limited edition t-shirt available, donations from every sale go to the Red Cross coronavirus aid
April 2020 Michelle Obama longlisted for English 4-11 Picture Book Awards, Non-fiction 4-7 category
April 2020 Illustrated Lifeology courses published
March 2020 School visits for World Book Day to Holy Cross Primary, Edinburgh; Pinkie St Peters, Edinburgh; Bishop Road Primary, Bristol
February 2020 Ada Lovelace events at Greig City Academy, London
February 2020 The Brontës shortlisted What are Kids Reading Awards, Quiz Writers’ Choice Award
January 2020 The Brontës featured in newly republished Children’s Picturebooks Second Edition The Art of Visual Storytelling by Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles
December 2019 Interview on Picture Book Den, with Pippa Goodhart
December 2019 Window painting at Portobello Book Shop
November 2019 Michelle Obama event for Book Week Scotland at Blackwells, Edinburgh
November 2019 Event for Book Week Scotland at Lennoxtown Library
November 2019 Event for Book Week Scotland at Blackburn Primary School
November 2019 Interview in Words for Life, National Literacy Trust
October 2019 Michelle Obama Blog Tour
October 2019 Michelle Obama published Wren and Rook, Hachette Children's Group
October 2019 Bookshop Day event at The Portobello Bookshop
October 2019 Included in The Cheltenham Illustration Awards and annual
October 2019 Ada Lovelace Day interview with the Book Trust
October 2019 #FantasticallyFeministALD project, in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day
October 2019 Window painting at Edinburgh Book Shop
September 2019 Book launch for Ada Lovelace at Blackwell's Edinburgh
September 2019 Fair Shares published by Tiny Owl
August 2019 Event at the Edinburgh Book Festival Event with Pippa Goodhart
August 2019 Ada Lovelace published Wren and Rook, Hachette Children's Group
June 2019 Window painting at Edinburgh Book Shop
March 2019 Book launch of Sticky and The Brontës at Blackwells, Edinburgh
March 2019 The Brontës published Wren and Rook, Hachette Children's Group
March 2019 Sticky published by Scholastic
March 2019 Guest Lecturer, DJCAD, University of Dundee
December 2018 Big Ideas for Curious Minds, An Introduction to Philosophy featured in The Guardian's The best children’s books of 2018 for all ages
September 2018 Publication of illustrated chapter book Big Ideas for Curious Minds, An Introduction to Philosophy, School of Life
September 2018 Exhibited in I Didn’t Do It, The Fine Art Society in association with the Super Power Agency
September 2017 Exhibited in Migrations, International Centre for the Picture Book in Society in collaboration with BIBIANA, the International House of Art for Children in Bratislava), Slovakia
June 2017 Commission for Papperlapapp, Issue 6, Wie kommt der Honig ins Glas?
May-September 2017 The Prize for Illustration, Sounds of the City, London Transport Museum (in partnership with the AOI)
May 2017 Batsford Prize Runner up
April 2017 Shortlisted for the Batsford Prize
April 2017 Exhibited at Bologna Children's Book Fair
March 2017 Graduation Exhibition, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
February 2017 Graduation Exhibition, Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London
January 2017 Published on Women Who Draw: An open directory of female* professional illustrators
January 2017 Commission for Scavenger
December 2016 The Prize for Illustration, Sounds of the City - The Association of Illustrators (AOI) in partnership with London Transport Museum shortlist
November 2016 CSA CBI Illustration Auction, Cambridge School of Art
October 2016 Featured in Six Foot Magazine
October 2016 Christmas card for The Ann Edgar Charitable Trust, Neuriendocrine Tumour Support
October 2016 Picture This! exhibition, Hive, Worcester (International Centre for the Picture Book In Society)
October 2016 Included in The Cheltenham Illustration Awards and annual
September 2016 Disney purchased limited edition poster for use as set dressing in A Wrinkle In Time [2018]
September 2016 Album artwork for Beginnings record by Ellen Renton
August 2016 Exhibited in Paper Dolls in London, Cambridge and Devon
June 2016 Exhibited in Night Shift, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
June 2016 Winner of Picture This! Worldwide Picturebook Illustration Competition, an initiative of Lemniscaat Publishers, the International Centre for the Picture Book in Society and Walker Books
May 2016 Illustration featured on The Guardian website
March 2016 Featured on Not Another Fashion Blog
February 2016 Winner of the Scottish Book Trust 50 Word Fiction Competition
September 2015 Began MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art
September 2015 Featured on Design Juices
July 2015 Featured on This and That Collective's The Great Grad Directory
June 2015 Exhibited at New Blood Festival 2015
June 2015 Shortlisted for Dolce Gusto’s Tastemakers
June 2015 Graduated DJCAD with a First Class Degree in Illustration BDes (Hons)
May 2015 Feature in The Art Room Plant
May 2015Feature inThe Art Room Plant
May 2015 DJCAD Degree Show
April 2015 Alternative election poster on The Guardian's website, and printed in G2 (29/04/15)
January 2015 Pop-up shop at Time Boutique, Dundee
December 2014 Christmas pop-up shops at DCA, The Unicorn and DJCAD
November 2014 WW1 themed art lessons and activities at Strathkinness Primary School, Fife
September 2014 Posters designed for Nightline Dundee
September 2014 Editorial based on the Scottish Referendum, featured in The Guardian and STV
April 2014 Publication of three Doodle Showdown zines in collaboration with Sam Hubbard, Jordan Hunter and Deborah Pow
April 2014 Manufactured Landscapes exhibition at the Tinroof, Dundee
May 2013 Leaflets designed for Homelink Family Support