NOVEL LONGLIST JUDGES PICTURE BOOK LONGLIST JUDGES SHORTLIST JUDGES PICTURE BOOKS NOVELS Fatima & Nani – Best Friends Forever Maisie …
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We’ve had an intense, but enjoyable, few weeks reading the entries for this year’s WriteMentor Novel and Picture Book Awards. …
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How to win a Picture Book Award You can find out more about WriteMentor’s Novel Awards here: https://write-mentor.com/awards/write… Clare is …
How to Win a Novel Award Authors and multi-competition winners Emily Randall-Jones and Melissa Welliver share their advice on how …
Announcing the winners of WriteMentor Novel in Development Award 2022
Our readers report that this was a very difficult two rounds of further reading of entries on the longlist. At …
Before we announce the list(s), just a few interesting bits of information from entries this year. We received (according to …
WM Novel and PB Awards 2022 – the Openings Openings of our Shortlisted Writers Simply click on the title in …
Children’s Novel and Picture Book Awards – the results Congratulations to winners Maureen Tai (Picture Book) and Aoife Doyle (Novel), …
WriteMentor Hub 2022 Writer in Residence Rashmi Sirdeshpande shares how to overcome writers block
2022 Summer Programme Pairings We are now in our 5th year of the programme and we’ve helped more than 200 …
#WMPitch Below are our usual instructions for #WMPitch – they are similar to many other pitching contests on Twitter. But …
Lorna Hemingway, literary agent at Bell Lomax Moreton, gives her insights and advice about submitting your Picture Book manuscript
Chloe Seager, literary agent at Madeleine Milburn, gives her insights and advice about submitting your manuscript
2022 Novel Award – the Shortlist Our readers had a really tough getting the 32 longlisted titles down to just …
2022 Picture Book Award – the Shortlist Our readers had a really tough getting the 35 longlisted titles down to …
2022 Picture Book Award: Introducing the shortlist Read More »
The Longlists Thanks to all of you for entering our Awards this year. We received a total of 1058 entires this year, …
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WriteMentor Writer-in-Residence and Picture Book author Rashmi Sirdeshpande urges writers to focus on passes, not rejections
January 2022 HELLO JANUARY! It’s as good a time as any to take a little look at your writing life …
Welcome to the Team What a lovely way to start the New Year! We have not one, but two new …
2021 Writers-in-Residence review We began this year with a new idea, asking Clare Helen Welsh and Vashti Hardy to be …
Coming up in 2022 in the Hub for Picture Books Picture Books with Rashmi Sirdeshpande This is an outline for …
Review of 2021 I guess, first of all, I should start with how difficult this year has been for us …
Interview with 2022 Novel and Picture Book Award Judges Interview with Judges Clare Wallace and Lydia Silver 1. Can you …
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WriteEvents Everything you always wanted to know about book events but were afraid to ask Tutors: Clare Helen Welsh and …
As we look ahead to how we’ll be able to best help our Hub members in 2022, we recently opened …
Within our community, writers constantly work hard behind the scenes (over and above their own writing) to help in various …
Throughout 2021, WriteMentor has been running a new community learning hub – a place for committed writers to come along …
Writer in Residence (for novelists) 2023 Throughout the last 2 years, WriteMentor has been running a community learning hub – …
Welcome to The Rejection Diaries. My name is Stuart White, struggling writer, biology teacher and dad of two. This is …
Entry Number Name Title of Manuscript Mentor Name Age category Genre Approx Word Count 29 Katherine Jennings Emily and the …
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We are delighted announce our double judging team for the joint awards for 2022. Clare and Lydia from Darley Anderson …
WriteMentor Children’s Novel and Picture Book Awards 2022: Meet the Judges Read More »
Here we are, in the midst of summer heatwave, finally announcing out inaugural winner of the 2021 Novel-in-Development Award. We …
WriteMentor Novel-in-Development Award 2021: THE WINNER Read More »
Well, this has been tough! We initially had to narrow down 85 entries (who got 2 YES votes in round …
WriteMentor Novel-in-Development Award 2021: THE SHORTLIST Read More »
We were so excited to launch this new award for children’s novel writers, where they could dip their toe in …
WriteMentor Novel-in-Development Award 2021: THE LONGLIST Read More »
Read WriteMentor’s coffee break reads blog post of how to structure your story.
WriteMentor Children’s Novel and Picture Books Awards 2021 If you want to see the whole ceremony and find out our …
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After 5 months of hard work, and intensive reading and delivering feedback, we have reached the very end point of …
WriteMentor Children’s Novel and Picture Book Awards 2021 Read More »
862 applicants. 64 mentors. 4 months of mentoring. 2 weeks of deliberation. 1 agent showcase.
It’s time to announce the 2021 mentor-mentee pairings!
With applications opening soon for WM 2021, I thought I’d post up a few thoughts of mine, which I’ve learned …
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Congratulations to everyone who is checking in, who made the longlists! You should be very, very proud of yourselves for …
The WriteMentor Children’s Novel and Picture Book Awards : THE SHORTLISTS Read More »
Thanks to everyone who entered this year’s dual awards. We are very proud and honoured that so many of you …
2021 WRITEMENTOR CHILDREN’S NOVEL and Picture Book AWARDs – THE LONGLISTs Read More »
This post is a bit of a combo, with a brief summary of this year’s award first, followed by an …
‘Why do agents keep rejecting me?’ Literary agent, Rachel Hamilton of Ben Illis Agency, has kindly offered to run a …
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By Carolyn Ward & Emma Finlayson-Palmer Considering getting your children’s book edited? Stuck and unsure about where you are up …
SPARK EDITING – A LIGHTING FLASH OF INSPIRATION FOR YOUR BOOK Read More »
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If you know of any other opportunities, please let us know via the contact form and we will add anything …
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What is a Children’s Novel? This sounds like a basic question but you’d be surprised how many submissions miss the …
1.10 Tips on Writing and Submitting a Children’s Novel by Chloe Seager Read More »
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