2024 WM Novel & Picture Book Awards Shortlist We are delighted to announce the shortlists for this year’s WriteMentor Novel & Picture Book Awards, sponsored by Bonnier Books UK. Those […]
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2024 WM Novel & Picture Book Awards Longlist We are delighted to announce the longlist for this year’s WriteMentor Novel & Picture Book Awards, sponsored by Bonnier Books UK. Firstly,
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Our shortlist this year was judged by Becky Bagnall, top literary agent. The Lindsay Literary Agency was founded in 2008 by Becky Bagnell, who has been in publishing for over 25 years. She
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Here’s the titles for our shortlist, which is now in the hands of our agent judge, Becky Bagnall. Kickerella Monty McPurr and the Genie of the Blobfish The Nighthawk Detectives
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We received (according to our form software) 256 entries for the award this year, down from 462 last year. Here’s the interesting stats of the spread of the entries: The
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We have reached the final stage of our search for the best unpublished novels and picture books out there for kids! Published authors, commissioning editors, librarians, booksellers, and library agents
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Thank you to the longlist judging team NOVEL LONGLIST JUDGES PICTURE BOOK LONGLIST JUDGES Shortlisted texts will now be read by literary agents SHORTLIST JUDGES Congratulations to the shortlist writers
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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. Thanks again to everyone who submitted their work. The readers
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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 a former primary school teacher turned writing tutor and children’s
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How to Win a Novel Award Authors and multi-competition winners Emily Randall-Jones and Melissa Welliver share their advice on how to make your novel entry stand out amongst the crowd
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Announcing the winners of WriteMentor Novel in Development Award 2022
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Our readers report that this was a very difficult two rounds of further reading of entries on the longlist. At times, they were making such marginal decisions and many reported
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Before we announce the list(s), just a few interesting bits of information from entries this year. We received (according to our form software) 462 entries for the award this year,
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WM Novel and PB Awards 2022 – the Openings Openings of our Shortlisted Writers Simply click on the title in the table to be transported into that story world! Name
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Children’s Novel and Picture Book Awards – the results Congratulations to winners Maureen Tai (Picture Book) and Aoife Doyle (Novel), who were chosen by judges Clare Wallace and Lydia Silver
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WriteMentor Hub 2022 Writer in Residence Rashmi Sirdeshpande shares how to overcome writers block
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2022 Summer Programme Pairings We are now in our 5th year of the programme and we’ve helped more than 200 writers in that time. People often focus on figures like
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Lorna Hemingway, literary agent at Bell Lomax Moreton, gives her insights and advice about submitting your Picture Book manuscript
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Chloe Seager, literary agent at Madeleine Milburn, gives her insights and advice about submitting your manuscript
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2022 Novel Award – the Shortlist Our readers had a really tough getting the 32 longlisted titles down to just 6 for the shortlist! In the end 4 more rounds
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2022 Picture Book Award – the Shortlist Our readers had a really tough getting the 35 longlisted titles down to just 6 for the shortlist! In the end 2 more
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The Longlists Thanks to all of you for entering our Awards this year. We received a total of 1058 entires this year, in the end, and are so delighted so many of
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WriteMentor Writer-in-Residence and Picture Book author Rashmi Sirdeshpande urges writers to focus on passes, not rejections
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January 2022 HELLO JANUARY! It’s as good a time as any to take a little look at your writing life and slip in some changes to help you move a
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Welcome to the Team What a lovely way to start the New Year! We have not one, but two new members to welcome to the WriteMentor, behind-the-scenes, team! Though, of
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2021 Writers-in-Residence review We began this year with a new idea, asking Clare Helen Welsh and Vashti Hardy to be our Hub writers in residence. To say they’ve delivered on
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Coming up in 2022 in the Hub for Picture Books Picture Books with Rashmi Sirdeshpande This is an outline for next year, and all sessions/content are subject to small changes.
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Review of 2021 I guess, first of all, I should start with how difficult this year has been for us all. It started in the worst possible way with the
Interview with 2022 Novel and Picture Book Award Judges Interview with Judges Clare Wallace and Lydia Silver 1. Can you tell us a little more about you and your role
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WriteEvents Everything you always wanted to know about book events but were afraid to ask Tutors: Clare Helen Welsh and Fiona Barker Format: 3 x 1hr sessions followed by 1 x
As we look ahead to how we’ll be able to best help our Hub members in 2022, we recently opened applications for our two writer-in-residence positions and were inundated with
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Within our community, writers constantly work hard behind the scenes (over and above their own writing) to help in various ways. Some people volunteer to organise events or writing retreats.
Throughout 2021, WriteMentor has been running a new community learning hub – a place for committed writers to come along and build community and develop their craft – it’s a
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Writer in Residence (for novelists) 2023 Throughout the last 2 years, WriteMentor has been running a community learning hub – a place for committed writers to come along and build
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Welcome to The Rejection Diaries. My name is Stuart White, struggling writer, biology teacher and dad of two. This is a podcast that has been started to explore and share
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Entry Number Name Title of Manuscript Mentor Name Age category Genre Approx Word Count 29 Katherine Jennings Emily and the Cartoon Time-Traveling Dragon Jennifer Bromham MG Science fantasy 50,000 Tired
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We are delighted announce our double judging team for the joint awards for 2022. Clare and Lydia from Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency bring a wealth of experience across all
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Here we are, in the midst of summer heatwave, finally announcing out inaugural winner of the 2021 Novel-in-Development Award. We had an amazing response to this with about 400 entries,
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Well, this has been tough! We initially had to narrow down 85 entries (who got 2 YES votes in round 1) to 26 entries for our longlist. We’ve spent the
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We were so excited to launch this new award for children’s novel writers, where they could dip their toe in the water with manuscripts that were still in progress, either
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Read WriteMentor’s coffee break reads blog post of how to structure your story.
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WriteMentor Children’s Novel and Picture Books Awards 2021 If you want to see the whole ceremony and find out our winners without any spoilers, watch the recording of the live
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After 5 months of hard work, and intensive reading and delivering feedback, we have reached the very end point of this year’s awards! And we’ve decided to be brave and
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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!
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With applications opening soon for WM 2021, I thought I’d post up a few thoughts of mine, which I’ve learned both from writing myself but also, more importantly, from reading
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Congratulations to everyone who is checking in, who made the longlists! You should be very, very proud of yourselves for reaching this stage. If you read below and do not
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Thanks to everyone who entered this year’s dual awards. We are very proud and honoured that so many of you chose to enter. We were VERY overwhelmed with the final
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This post is a bit of a combo, with a brief summary of this year’s award first, followed by an in-depth share of how we do things behind the scenes.
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‘Why do agents keep rejecting me?’ Literary agent, Rachel Hamilton of Ben Illis Agency, has kindly offered to run a clinic for writers of middle-grade fiction who are feeling frustrated
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