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 …
NID Award
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 …
Writer Lucas Maxwell describes his experience of winning WriteMentor’s Novel-in-Development Award, a writing prize that celebrates and champions unfinished children’s novels
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 times, they were making such marginal decisions and many reported …
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, …
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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