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📣Calling unagented novelists and children’s authors,
our two £5,000 writing prizes are open for entries!
The
#BathNovelAward24
(A/YA) is open until 31 May
The
#BathChildrensNovelAward24
(YA/MG/CB/PB) is open until 30 Nov.
Head to for all the info.
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If you've written a TERRIFIC children's novel our Junior Judges would LOVE to read it, but hurry - entries for this year's £2,000 prize will close Sun 19th Nov.
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We read synopses every day and we feel your pain. A 🧵on the key elements we hope to find. 1/8
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We read synopses every day and we feel your pain.
Short 🧵 on the key elements we hope to find.
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Just in case you were wondering, here's the 20 most used words in titles of novels submitted so far for
#BNA2019
1 Truth
2 Death
3 First
4 Girl
5 Sea
6 Shadows
7 Island
8 World
9 Dream
10 Blue
11 Book
12 Children
13 Winter
14 Love
15 Last
16 Dark
17 Time
18 Days
19 End
20 Lies
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@EllisLandreth1
Boo to those kids. If your brother would like to join our (paid) team of Junior Judges for
#BNAkids
2020 drop us a dm
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Deeply sad to share news that Clarissa Goenawan's husband was hit and critically injured by a car while walking on Thursday. With her debut just out, can we collectively step into her promo shoes to give her a boost?
#shareRainbirdsforClarissa
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📣With great thanks to judge
@Nelle_Andrew
we are thrilled to announce 2022’s Bath Novel Award goes to
@francesca_rk
for VICTORIANA
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Just in case you were wondering, here's the 20 most used words in novel titles submitted so far for
#BNAkids
2019:
1 Time
2 Girl
3 Dog
4 Magic
5 Life
6 Winter
7 Stone
8 Night
9 Book
10 Tree
11 One
12 Boy
13 Daughter
14 Crystal
15 Secret
16 Billy
17 Stars
18 Great
19 Moon
20 Tale
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And the winner is....
@abimdare_author
for The Girl with the Louding Voice!
#BNA2018
!
Tonight at an award ceremony here in Bath,
@felicityblunt
will announce the winner of the Bath Novel Award 2018. We proudly present the opening pages of the final five in contention for this year’s £2,500 prize
#BNA2018
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Introducing Chibi Totoro, our new office pup! She’s a 13 weeks old Griffon Vendeen and already taking a shine to the
#BNA2019
trophy
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📣We are delighted to announce the winner of the Bath Novel Award 2023 is
@IanNettletonUK
Full
#BNA2023
announcement here:
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We are pleased to announce the Bath Children's Novel Award 2020 longlist. Many congratulations to the final 22!
#BNAkids
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📣Delighted to announce the recipient of the
#BNA2021
/
@cornerstoneslit
Longlist Prize is
@RachaelDunlop
for HERE LIES GUIDO PERKINS.
Rachael wins a place on the online course Edit Your Novel the Professional Way.
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Delighted to announce the Bath Children's Novel Award 2018 longlist
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Children's writers on a low income, author
@kitdewaal
is sponsoring five entries for The Bath Children's Novel Award 2018:
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"The day I saw three rejections in my inbox I cried a long time, quietly in my room. But after I calmed down, I wiped my tears and sent three more queries." A gorgeous post from
@claireclaire05
about
#Rainbirds
and why being a writer means never giving up
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Good luck to all for the
#BNAkids
longlist tomorrow (noon GMT). It's been our joy and privilege to read your words.
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We’re delighted to announce The Bath Novel Award 2018 Longlist. Congratulations to the 23 writers of this year’s 24 standout titles
#BNA2018
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Delighted to announce this year's Bath Children's Novel Award shortlist with many congratulations to the Junior Judges' final six!
@Hilary_Delamere
#BNAkids
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📚
#BNAkids
2018's most frequent words in entry titles:
1 Girl
2 Book
3 Secret
4 Boy
5 Glass
6 Time
7 Lost
8 Child
9 Sky
10 School
11 Adventures
12 Trouble
13 Shadows
14 Secrets
15 Heart
16 Dragon
17 Blood
18 Storm
19 Magic
20 Light
21 Island
22 House
23 Home
24 Forest
25 Curse
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Tonight at an award ceremony here in Bath,
@felicityblunt
will announce the winner of the Bath Novel Award 2018. We proudly present the opening pages of the final five in contention for this year’s £2,500 prize
#BNA2018
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Writing a novel for adults or YA? The Bath Novel Award 2017 is open with a £2,000 prize &
@laurabirdland
judging:
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#BNAkids
longlisting update: first reads now 100% complete and the standard is fierce! Best match readers are voting from today until Saturday with the longlist announcement at noon GMT next Tues 18th Dec. Good luck everyone!
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📣The Bath Novel Award 2021 is open for submissions!
£3,000 adult fiction prize for emerging novelists | First 5,000 words and synopsis | C/date May 31st |
#BNA2021
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Many congratulations to the writers of the five novels shortlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award
#BNAkids
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#BNA2021
That's all the snippets and goldens for this year. We're away to count the votes and back with the longlist tomorrow at noon BST. Best of luck to all!
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We'll be announcing the
#BNAkids
longlist tomorrow noon GMT at and will email and tweet a prompt once it's up. (We don't email longlistees in advance so no news is simply no news.) Good luck to all!
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👓📚
#BNA2019
update: first full round of reads is now complete with extracts matched and out with readers for the start of the main longlist voting week. YES vote snippets will start June 17th thru 20th June - good luck everyone!
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The Bath Children's Novel Award 2020 is now OPEN for submissions! Lit agent
@StephT2000
will be judging this year's £3,000 winner from a shortlist chosen by Junior Judges aged 7 to 17 years
#BNAkids
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We are delighted to announce 2022’s Bath Children’s Novel Award goes to
@trulywrites
!
Thanks to wonder judge
@AmberCaraveo
and congratulations to Truly, fellow shortlistees
@KClarkwriter
@WYDobson1
Carmen Wittmeier, Hannah H Lin and all longlistees.
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Ahead of tonight's
#BNAkids
winner's announcement, we proudly present the opening pages of this year's six shortlisted children's novels:
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Huge congratulations to
@NotAbhi
!
Full
#BNA2021
announcement here including our incredible shortlistees
@ems_writes
@JodieRMatthews
@francescaking7
Rosanna Oram and
@carolinewvine
plus comments from the very wisest of judges
@juliasreading
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⚡️We have a shortlist! Good luck to all longlistees for tomorrow’s announcement (noon BST)
#BNA2020
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The
#BathNovelAward24
submission window is open! We're seeking adult and YA novels in every genre and offering £5,000 for the winning manuscript. Come on in!
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💛💛💛
#BNA2020
longlisting update: YES vote tweets will start tomorrow noon BST with THREE golden votes!!!
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The Bath Novel Award 2020 is now OPEN! Submissions are invited from emerging novelists worldwide, with a £3,000 prize and
@JennySavill1
judging. C/date May 31st
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Lastly, know that almost everyone finds writing a synopsis hard.
They are a useful tool for readers but only ever the supporting act to your novel extract.
Full / slightly longer post here
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This year's 10 most popular words in titles of novels entered for
#BNAkids
1. Girl
2. Boy
3. Time
4. House
5. Rose
6. Secret
7. Lost
8. Shadow
9. Silver
10. Witch
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Now OPEN: The Bath Children's Novel Award 2017 invites MG/YA entries until 19 Nov. £2,000 prize | Judge
@sallyanne_s
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📣 With huge thanks to our wonderful judge
@StephT2000
we are delighted to announce the winner of the Bath Children’s Novel Award 2020 is...
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"Libraries do not belong to the past". Great letter from children's authors in support of
@SaveBathLibrary
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Congratulations to the writers of the 26 titles longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award 2017
#BNAkids
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We're delighted to announce the Bath Children's Novel Award 2020 shorlist. Many congratulations to the Junior Judges' final four!
#BNAkids
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Good luck to all for the
#BNA2017
longlist tomorrow (noon BST). It's been our joy and privilege to read your words.
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Calling all emerging novelists writing for kids or teens, this year's £2,500
#BNAkids
is open worldwide until 2nd Dec!
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Huge sad audience sigh as Philip Pullman tells Bath did all his research for The Northern Lights at... his local library
@SaveBathLibrary
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#BNAkids
longlisting update - first reads are now 80% complete, due to complete tomorrow night. By Monday they will be with their best match readers for a week of voting in the run up to the longlist announcement on Dec 18th!
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#BNAkids
14 yo illusionist is trapped in her cellar with a fresh corpse as the Great Fire of London rages outside. Heck YES
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That's a wrap for
#BNAkids
snippets! We're excited to confirm 2020's Bath Children's Novel Award Longlist will be revealed at 14:00 GMT tomorrow. Good luck o one and all.
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With 10 days to go, the top 20 most used words in
#BNA2018
entry titles are:
1. Life
2. Light
3. Secret
4. Red
5. After
6. Girl
7. Moon
8. Baby
9. Ghosts
10. Dark
11. Street
12. Truth
13. War
14. Daughter
15. Hands
16. Flowers
17. Lost
18. Love
19. Black
20. Boy
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🎉It's Snippets Day! From noon GMT we'll be sharing a bumper selection of 20
#BNAkids
YES vote comments from early readers and some of the Junior Judges.
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Wonderful news... an anonymous sponsor has bought 20 entries for low income writers!
Children's writers on a low income, author
@kitdewaal
is sponsoring five entries for The Bath Children's Novel Award 2018:
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#BNA2018
update: all entries are downloaded and first round reads are 75% complete. The main voting week is wc 14th May and we'll be sharing snippets from YES votes between the 14th and 23rd May.
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And that's a wrap for
#BNAkids
submissions. Thank you to all who entered and all best wishes for the competition stages, we can't wait to read to read your work!
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Now OPEN: The Bath Children's Novel Award 2018
£2,500 prize judged by
@Hilary_Delamere
from a shortlist chosen by kids & teens
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Ahead of next Tuesday's
#BNAkids
longlist announcement, a short post about dates, votes and YES vote snippets
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That's the last of the snippets from the
#BNA2020
YES votes. It's been our honour to read so many brilliant manuscripts. We're away to count, back tomorrow with the longlist announcement from noon BST. Good luck to all!
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Delighted to announce The Bath Novel Award 2018 shortlist:
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🎺With
#BNAkids
votes coming in thick and fast we'll tweet the first YES vote snippets tomorrow
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We make that 20... we'll be back at 17:00 GMT with more and some Longlist Eve golden votes
#BNAkids
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On
#InternationalWomensDay
we're celebrating this year's all women, international
#BNAkids
shortlist and cheering for every woman writer putting their words out in the world
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Announcing our 2017 longlisted titles. Congratulations to all:
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#BNA2019
Breaking...we have a shortlist! So excited to announce our final five manuscripts, this Wednesday 31st July at noon BST
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Lastly, know that almost everyone finds writing a synopsis hard. They are a useful tool for readers but only ever the supporting act to your novel extract. Full / slightly longer post here 8/8
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#BNA2020
update: the first reading round is now complete with extracts matched to readers for the main longlist voting week. YES vote tweets start June 20th thru 24th ahead of the LL announcement at noon BST on the 25th.
Good luck everyone!
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💛Breaking: the first golden vote for
#BNAkids
has been cast, for an adventure novel for 10-12 year olds! 💛
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#BNAkids
longlist update: the final list has been signed off at 26 titles, split evenly between MG & YA. Good luck to all for tomorrow's announcement at noon GMT!
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#BNA2021
update: the first reading round is now complete with extracts matched to readers for the main longlist voting week. YES vote tweets start June 27th thru 29th ahead of the LL announcement at noon BST on the 30th. Good luck everyone!
With
#BNA2021
submissions closed, a short post on what happens in the run up to the longlist announcement
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🙏Our grateful thanks to shortlisted author
@NeemaMShah
for pre-paying entries for low income writers to the Bath Novel Award 2019:
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#BNA2019
that's a wrap for YES vote snippets! Best of luck to all for tomorrow's longlist announcement, we'll tweet a link shortly after noon BST.
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What a night! Congratulations
@abimdare_author
- winner of The Bath Novel Award 2018 for THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE
#BNA2018
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“Creative expression is one of the best ways to look after your mental health”
@JoannaCannon
#thebathfestival
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Now OPEN: The Bath Novel Award 2018 invites entries until 30th April.
£2,500 prize &
@felicityblunt
judging:
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Ahead of tonight's winner's announcement we proudly present the opening pages of the five novels shortlisted for 2019's Bath Children’s Novel Award
#BNAkids
2019
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🎉🎉🎉 All the congratulations to
@abidare_author
as THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE is announced as Amazon Editors' Best Book of 2020 Jan-Jun. "A rousing tale of courage and pluck, and unexpectedly charming."
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📚👓Longlisting latest: first reads for all
#BNAkids
are now complete with sixty outstanding novels still in contention for a spot on Dec 5th’s longlist!
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And that's a wrap for
#BNA2020
submissions! Thanks to all entrants and every best wish for the competition stages. We can't wait to read to read your work.
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2021's Bath Novel Award is open for submissions from not-yet-published and indie-published novelists worldwide | £3,000 prize | Judge
@juliasreading
| C/d May 31st
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Ahead of tonight's
#BNA2019
announcement, we proudly present extracts from the final five manuscripts up for this year's £2,500 prize:
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