WriteMentor Summer Programme 2025: Mentor/Mentee Pairings
Thanks to everyone who applied for our programme a few weeks ago. Our mentors have spent the interim period reading and have chosen the following writers to mentor this summer.
If your name is on the list below, your mentor will be in touch to discuss how things will proceed.
If not, remember there are so many factors that will have determined the choices below, and it’s not always a reflection of the quality of a writer’s work but the many other variants that go into the application, too.
PICTURE BOOKS
| Mentor | Age Category | Mentee | Title of manuscript |
| Sarah Atherton | PB | Rosalind Fergusson | Fly in my Eye |
| Holly Ryan | PB | Emma Hulin | Incredibull |
| Frances Tosdevin | PB | Amy Sebba | Knight Soup |
| Sue Lancaster | PB | Tara Potter | Is Your Name Good Boy? |
| Eva Wong Nava | PB | Mamta Nainy | Will the Stars Follow Us? |
MIDDLE GRADE
| Mentor | Age Category | Mentee | Title of manuscript |
| Emma Finlayson-Palmer | MG | Ruth Stevenson | Callum Copernicus and the Runaway Circus |
| Philip Kavvadias | MG | Dominic Yoboue | Sunnybrook Secrets |
| Clare Harlow | MG | Ian Jones | Electric Eddie and the Curse of the Melodemons |
| Laura Caputo & Lucille Abendanon | MG | Lorna Gill | Silent Song |
| Alex Atkinson | MG | Charlie Baudry | How to Trap a Shadow |
| Natasha Holmes | MG | Fran Webb | Sol and the Skydeer |
| Alex falase-koya | MG | Kim Donovan | Spooked |
| Jonathan Eyers | MG | Nat Rutherford | Sheep Swap |
YOUNG ADULT
| Mentor | Age Category | Mentee Choice 1 | Title of manuscript |
| Melissa Welliver | YA | Yesret Bi | Displacement |
| Sue Cunningham | YA | Alex Money | Acceptable in the 80s |
| Jan Dunning and A J Clack | YA | Claire Thomas | The Mermaid Skeleton |
| Celeste Dador | YA | Kayla Herrera | Marionette |
| Fiona Longmuir | YA | Katherine Shingler | Sidelined |
| Sarah Daniels | YA | Karen Rust | The Osen Files |
| Philip Kavvadias | YA | Emma Zipfel | Leave No Trace |
Next week, we will contact the lucky submission package winners from those who are not selected above but applied.
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