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 2025Look
ing 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 2024
A 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 2023
Ask 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 Dohe
rty 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 To
wn 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 t
op 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 2021
What 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, Edinbur
gh; 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 I
nterview 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 in
The 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