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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WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award
How to Win a Novel Award Authors and multi-competition winners Emily Randall-Jones and Melissa Welliver share their advice on how …
Writer and visual storyteller Maureen Tai won the WriteMentor Picture Book Award 2022. She shares her experience and writing advice.
Aoife Doyle won the WriteMentor Novel Award 2022 for ‘The Music Weaver’s Call’ and is now represented by Lucy Irvine at Peters Fraser + Dunlop. They share their experience and writing advice.
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), …
2022 Novel Award – the Shortlist Our readers had a really tough getting the 32 longlisted titles down to just …
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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Interview with 2022 Novel and Picture Book Award Judges Interview with Judges Clare Wallace and Lydia Silver 1. Can you …
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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 …
Can you tell us a little more about you and your role as a literary agent, and how you came to …
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Can you tell us a little more about both of you and the agency? Paul: I am the Managing Director of …
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Louise Cook was a runner-up in the 2020 WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award and a 2020 WriteMentor mentee. After a degree …
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By Sue Cunningham, 2020 winner How do you win a writing competition? In my case, it was probably a fun …
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We asked 2020 Picture Book Award Winner, Sophia Payne, to reflect on her experience with the award, and what has …
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After being long listed for the WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award, Amy Borg took part in the WriteMentor 2019 summer mentoring …
Author Dale Hannah was a mentee on WriteMentor’s summer mentoring programme who worked his Middle Grade novel with the help …
Sue Cunningham, winner of our 2020 WMCNA, spoke with us last week about her win and her overall experience. How …
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After 5 months of reading, scoring and judging, we have finally arrived at the day where we announce the 2020 …
Well what a month! About as disruptive as it could have been for both the writers waiting and readers (attempting) …
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Thanks to everyone who entered this year’s WMCNA. We are very proud and honoured that so many of you chose …
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Today’s post is most definitely inspired by a great thread by Lindsay Galvin on Twitter on this topic. We announce …
In an attempt to demystify the behind the scenes goings-ons, as I always aim to do, during a novel award, …
Alexandra Page was the #WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award winner for 2019. We chatted to her after winning here. Below, she …
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How to almost win a novel competition I can’t tell you how to win the WMCNA, partly because I was …
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We welcome WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award runner-up, Kathryn Lougheed, to discuss her writing, her experience of the competition and what …
Can you tell us a little more about you and your agency? Of course! I set up my specialist children’s …
In the aftermath, of winning our very first Novel Award, we spoke to our first winner, Alexandra Page. How did …
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Here we are – the big announcement! The first winner of the #WriteMentor Children’s Novel Award… But first, let’s read …
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