The Caterpillar

The Caterpillar A magazine for children (aged 7-11) featuring poetry, stories and art. Features the likes of Michael It is printed in an unpronouncable place in Wales.

The Caterpillar is the younger sibling of The Moth, an international arts and literature magazine for grown-ups. The Caterpillar features poetry, stories and art for kids between the ages of 7 and 11(ish). It appears four times a year ‒ in March, June, September and December. John Hegley chose The Caterpillar as one of his 'top ten children's poetry books' in The Guardian - and it's not even a boo

k, or a poetry book for that matter! - sharing the limelight with the likes of Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Rosen and Jacqueline Wilson. It includes some GREAT writing by the likes of Michael Morpurgo, Meshack Asare, Julie O'Callaghan, Dennis Lee (who penned 'Fraggle Rock'), Frank Cottrell Boyce, Mo O'Hara, John Hegley, Ian Whybrow, Mark Lowery, Hilda Offen and Janet Wong (she's read her poems on the Oprah Winfrey Show!). The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is a new annual prize of €1,000 for the best poem written by an adult for children. You can find details of how to enter at www.thecaterpillarprize.com. The magazine is edited by Rebecca O'Connor in her children's former playroom. A one-year subscription (€20) or a single copy (€5) can be ordered at www.thecaterpillarmagazine.com.

Swimming into the weekend – and all the adventures it will hold... 🐻‍❄ 'Dark Waters', from The Caterpillar Archives by S...
10/10/2025

Swimming into the weekend – and all the adventures it will hold...

🐻‍❄ 'Dark Waters', from The Caterpillar Archives by Scottish artist Lucy Campbell

❛ Writing is to put love into the world.'Harriet the Spy' author Louise Fitzhugh, born in 1928.
05/10/2025

❛ Writing is to put love into the world.

'Harriet the Spy' author Louise Fitzhugh, born in 1928.

Hello October! Something brilliant and slightly spooky to welcome in the season, from Issue 17 of The Caterpillar – a fa...
01/10/2025

Hello October! Something brilliant and slightly spooky to welcome in the season, from Issue 17 of The Caterpillar – a fairytale collage by Kimberly Karr-Wlassak. 🌛

Don't miss out! Closing tomorrow... 🌿 bit.ly/mothnature25
29/09/2025

Don't miss out! Closing tomorrow...

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Final reminder – don't miss out! ⏰️

Last chance to enter this year's Moth Nature Writing Prize.

We're looking for the very best poetry and prose that captures your relationship with the natural world.

Closing 30 September, midnight your time. 🍂 bit.ly/mothnature25

There's an issue of The Caterpillar for every season...Take Issue 30 for example –– haunted houses, circus acts, monster...
24/09/2025

There's an issue of The Caterpillar for every season...

Take Issue 30 for example –– haunted houses, circus acts, monsters, banjos, even excuses for not doing your homework.

Perfect for the spooky months.
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'The Caterpillar is the sort of magazine I would have devoured as a young person’ – Liz BrownleeHungry for funny poems, ...
16/09/2025

'The Caterpillar is the sort of magazine I would have devoured as a young person’ – Liz Brownlee

Hungry for funny poems, mind-blowing stories, and art that will make you want to pick up a pencil? Back issues from just €5, this way...

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Long week? Us too. We think maybe we've all already Gone Bananas... Poem by Sophie Kirtley, originally from Issue 19. 🍌
10/09/2025

Long week? Us too. We think maybe we've all already Gone Bananas...

Poem by Sophie Kirtley, originally from Issue 19. 🍌

❛A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably...
04/09/2025

❛A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

Joan Aiken, born in 1924.

A Sunday gift – beautiful art by the uber talented Hannah Lock. 'Gathering Flowers', from Issue 32. 💐
31/08/2025

A Sunday gift – beautiful art by the uber talented Hannah Lock. 'Gathering Flowers', from Issue 32. 💐

28/08/2025

In case you missed it – yesterday we announced this year's winners of The Moth Short Story Prize, as chosen by the brilliant Evie Wyld!

You can catch Clare Roche's first prize-winning story '(Un)Tethered' as part of The Irish Times' Summer Fiction series. Both in print and over on the Irish Times website: bit.ly/untetheredroche

❛ Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer...
25/08/2025

❛ Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

Children's poet Charles Ghigna, born in 1946.

❛ I thank you for / your point of view, / but I'll do me / and you do you.Some wise words to take us into the weekend - ...
22/08/2025

❛ I thank you for / your point of view, / but I'll do me / and you do you.

Some wise words to take us into the weekend - from our Spring 2021 issue.

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