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The winner of the 2023
#YoungWriterAward
is...
@TomCrewe1
for
#TheNewLife
Tom joins an illustrious list of writers for his daring novel of forbidden desire. Published by
@ChattoBooks
.
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We are so thrilled to share that
#JayBernard
has won the 2020 Young Writer of the Year Award for their groundbreaking and fearless collection SURGE, exploring the New Cross fire of 1981
//
@ChattoBooks
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The winner of the 2022
#YoungWriterAward
is...
@Tom_Benn
for
#Oxblood
Tom joins an illustrious list of writers for his poignantly rendered exploration of domesticity and crime, published by
@BloomsburyBooks
.
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The winner of the 2021
#YoungWriterAward
is...
@CalFlyn
for Islands of Abandonment.
Cal joins a long list of exceptional writers.
Judge Andrew O’Hagan said, ‘Unforgettable writers start with an unmistakeable voice, and Cal Flyn has exactly that.’
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We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Raymond Antrobus is the 2019 winner of the
#YoungWriterAward
for his extraordinary collection
#ThePerseverance
//
@PennedintheM
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It's GIVEAWAY time!
Fancy winning the 5 incredible books from our 2020
#YoungWriterAward
shortlist? We have a set ready to post out to one lucky winner...
Simply retweet this tweet and follow us to enter!
Competition closes 01.12.20 at 9PM GMT
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It is with great pleasure that we introduce the shortlist for the 2021 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award:
#YoungWriterAward
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Jay Bernard has won the 2020
#youngwriteraward
for SURGE
Judge
@KitdeWaal
said: “Surge is a powerful, beautiful collection of poetry. Personal, political, unapologetic, written in the beautiful cadence of patois and black music… I absolutely loved it.”"
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We are thrilled to have FIVE books on our
#YoungWriterAward
shortlist this year - massive congrats to
#JayBernard
,
@Catkcho
@NaoiseDolan
@seanehewitt
and
@MarinaKempPull
/
@BloomsburyBooks
@Vintagebooks
@ChattoBooks
@JonathanCape
@4thestatebooks
@HarperCollinsUK
@wnbooks
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Congratulations to
@TomCrewe1
who has been announced as this year's winner with his novel,
#TheNewLife
! ✨️
#YoungWriterAward
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Super huge congratulations to
@sallyrooney
- 2017 winner of the
#YoungWriterAward
for Conversations with Friends //
@FaberBooks
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Our 2020 winner will be crowned at 7pm on Thursday - join us for a very 2020 livestreamed event with
@aholgate
@HoumanBarekat
@KitdeWaal
@tessahadley
@SebastianFaulks
@thesundaytimes
@warwickuni
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Drumroll please - the 2019 shortlist for the
#YoungWriterAward
is revealed today. Massive congratulations to
@raymondAntrobus
@JuliaArmfield
@yazzarf
@kimtsherwood
. We are so pleased to celebrate you and your amazing books! /
@PennedintheM
@picadorbooks
@fleetreads
@riverrunbooks
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Congratulations to Imogen Hermes Gower. Shortlisted for the 2018
#YoungWriterAward
for The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
@girlhermes
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"if you find yourself deleting version after version, the chances are you’re trying to write the wrong thing. " Mary Beard
@wmarybeard
tells us what she wishes she had known when she started writing
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It was a joy to present the
#YoungWriterAward
last night to
@Tom_Benn
. Congratulations to our shortlistees
@lucyburns66
,
@MaddieMortimer
& Katherine Rundell, thank you to
@SebastianFaulks
,
@Waterstones
,
@Soc_of_Authors
,
@Skylight_London
,
@LitBritish
,
@FMcMAssociates
& our judges!
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GIVEAWAY! Next month we’ll be announcing the 2021
#YoungWritersAward
shortlist.
In the meantime, we’re giving away a set of some of the previous winners of the UK’s most influential prize for young writers.
To enter, simply Like & RT this post (UK & IE only). Ends 23 Dec.
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Adam Weymouth wins The Sunday Times Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 in association with the University of Warwick for his travel memoir Kings of the Yukon
#YoungWriterAward
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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award! ✨
Read more here:
Read in
@thetimes
/
@TheTimesBooks
:
#YoungWriterAward
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Here it is! Our 2018 shortlist. Congratulations to the four shortlisted writers.
#youngwriteraward
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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2022 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award!
#YoungWriterAward
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“When you are obsessed with an image as I am with landscapes, you cannot separate things. So I cannot separate the legacy of the Empire from the flat landscapes from me.” -
@NoreenMasud
#YoungWriterAward
#AFlatPlace
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We are so thrilled to be open for submissions to the 2020
#youngwriteraward
- we want to read the best books published this year from writers aged 18-35 resident in UK and Ireland. //
@thesundaytimes
@warwickuni
@aholgate
@LitBritish
@Soc_of_Authors
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With only two weeks to go until we reveal the winner of the 2023
#YoungWriterAward
, we will be spotlighting each of our wonderful shortlisted authors!
Here's
@Tom_Benn
on
#Oxblood
, a poignantly rendered exploration of domesticity and violence, published by
@BloomsburyBooks
.
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Well, this is very exciting. Massive congrats
@jessgreengrass
@maxjohnporter
@bwoodauthor
@AndrewPoetry
, 2016 shortlistees
#YoungWriterAward
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We are so proud to reveal our 2019
#youngwriterawardshadow
panel...
@annecater
@Bluebookballoon
@Lindahill50Hill
@yearsofreading
@brixtonbookworm
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Who will win the Young Writer of the Year Award tonight? Which is your favourite - and why?
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We are so excited to reveal our 2020 judging panel. Drum roll please....
@kitdewaal
@aholgate
@houmanbarekat
@SebastianFaulks
#tessahadley
#youngwriteraward
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Our 2020
#YoungWriterShadow
panel have chose Inferno by
@Catkcho
as their winner!
The 2020 Judges announce their winner next Thurs. Is this the first year that our Shadow Panel & Judges agree?!
@MarinaSofia8
@sissireads
@excusemereading
@hopeisreading
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We are utterly thrilled that
@maxjohnporter
has won
#YoungWriterAward
2016! Huge congrats Max and
@FaberBooks
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We are thrilled to announce our 2018
#youngwriterawardshadow
panel today - huge welcome to
@bookishchat
@alifeinbooks
@halfmanhalfb00k
@thelitedit
@lizzirisch
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The news is out! We have a extraordinary line up of judges for this year’s award - thrilled to welcome
@kamilashamsie
and
@susanhillwriter
to join
@aholgate
in judging the 2018
#youngwriteraward
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Our incredible shortlisted authors are in the building! Looking forward to celebrating this evening with
@TomCrewe1
,
@NoreenMasud
,
@michaelmagee__
and Momtaza Mehri.
#YoungWriterAward
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"The first draft is always crap: a writer is someone who endures the agony of returning to it and making it better despite the agony and torment."
@Sathnam
tells us what he wishes he had known when he first started writing.
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We are so thrilled that
@sallyrooney
is our 2017 winner of the
#YoungWriterAward
for her extraordinary Conversations with Friends //
@FaberBooks
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Sunday Times Literary Editor, Andrew Holgate, introduces our four shortlisted writers at this afternoon's Bloggers' Event (l-r Adam Weymouth, Fiona Mozley, Andrew Holgate, Imogen Hermes Gower, Laura Freeman)
#YoungWriterAward
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.
@rachelnalong
is shortlisted for her much-anticipated debut poetry collection, My Darling from the Lions (
@picadorbooks
@panmacmillan
).
#YoungWriterAward
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"The lessons I learned by being on both sides of the editorial relationship in little magazines remain the most important ones I have."
@lucieelven
on literary magazines, and finding your voice as a writer:
#WritingCommunity
@prototypepubs
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Wise words from
@writerer
on finishing your novel: "brace yourself for the most shatteringly anticlimactic event in the writer’s life. Nobody cares that you’ve finished your book. Those who love you may say something like, “That’s nice, dear.” "
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'The process of writing a novel, at least in my limited experience, is a process of small reorientations.' –
@michaelmagee__
Our wonderful shortlistee, Michael Magee, on how he wrote Close to Home.
Read more below 👇
i wrote some words about writing Close to Home for
@YoungWriterYear
you can read the full thing here:
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Huge thanks to our partners
@TheLondonLib
for taking our shortlistees on a tour this morning!
The London Library is one of the UK’s greatest literary institutions, providing a centre of creativity, inspiration and ideas for 180 years.
Find out more here:
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"There are no rules. Do what you want. Be yourself, but never forget that it isn't all about you, it just starts with you."
@susanhillwriter
tells us what she wishes she had known when starting out as a writer
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"Writing as a career isn’t for the fainthearted. Even with its privileges it can be a lonely, at times disheartening, way to spend your time."
Rishi Dastidar (
@betarish
) on finding support as a writer:
#YoungWriters
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Inferno is a testament to the condition of motherhood. A personal, yet universal experience of how we love, live and understand ourselves in relation to each other.
@Catkcho
provides a window into stress-induced post-partum psychosis, an illness that affects 1-2 in 1000 women.
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Only one more week to go until we reveal the winner of the 2021
#YoungWriterAward
!
Who is your pick to win?
Follow along with the announcement on 24th February
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We are excited to share our exceptional panel of judges for 2022…
New Sunday Times Literary Editor Johanna Thomas-Corr is joined by Stig Abell, Mona Arshi, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Francis Spufford, and Andrew Holgate.
Read more:
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The fourth and final author shortlisted for this year's
#YoungWriterAward
is Katherine Rundell. Here she is on
#SuperInfinite
, her extraordinary biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.
Published by
@FaberBooks
.
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We are VERY excited to announce that on the eve of our winner's announcement
@WaterstonesTCR
will host an exclusive shortlist event, with all four of our shortlistees and
@SebastianFaulks
! ✨
🎟️🎟️🎟️ For more information and tickets:
#YoungWriterAward
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Today in our 2023
#YoungWriterAward
shortlist spotlight, we speak to
@MaddieMortimer
about her astonishing debut
#MapsOfOurSpectacularBodies
: a wild and lyrical celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all.
Published by
@panmacmillan
/
@picadorbooks
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In case you missed
@JohannaTC
's wonderful interview with our 2022
#YoungWriterAward
winner
@Tom_Benn
in
@timesculture
, you can read it here:
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Our pals at
@warwickuni
have been rated no1 creative writing course by
@thesundaytimes
- we're thrilled for them & proud to be associated!
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And
@CalebANelson
is shortlisted with Open Water (
@VikingBooksUK
@PenguinUKBooks
), an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity.
#YoungWriterAward
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ONE WEEK to go until we reveal the winner of the 2022
#YoungWriterAward
! Who is your pick to win?
Stay tuned on Tuesday 14th March for the announcement!
#YoungWriterAward
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**KLAXON!!** 2017 shortlist announced in
@thesundaytimes
today!
Congrats to all FIVE(!) writers
#youngwriteraward
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Megan Nolan is shortlisted with her darkly funny debut novel, Acts of Desperation (
@JonathanCape
@vintagebooks
).
#YoungWriterAward
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Shortlisted is
@Tom_Benn
for Oxblood, a blistering portrait of a family on fire, which lays bare the horror of violence, the exile of grief, and the extraordinary power of love. Published by
@BloomsburyBooks
.
#YoungWriterAward
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Congratulations to Adam Weymouth. Shortlisted for the 2018
#YoungWriterAward
for Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey
@adamweymouth
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We are excited to reveal our
#YoungWriterAward
2021 judges...
Tahmima Anam, Andrew O'Hagan, Sarah Moss, Gonzalo C. Garcia and Claire Lowdon will join Andrew Holgate on the 2021 judging panel.
Read more:
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We are thrilled that our
#YoungWriterAwardShadow
panel have chosen their winner...
@juliannepachico
for
#TheLuckyOnes
! Huge congrats The 2017
#YoungWriterAward
winner will be revealed next week. //
@FaberBooks
@gaskella
@littleblogbooks
@SocialShelves
@bookishbeck
@EleanorFranzen
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We are open for submissions! We want books by authors under 35
#fiction
#nonfiction
#poetry
#publisher
#indieauthors
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“What does it mean to share your life with another person? And what does a whole life look like?”
@AnnaBeecher
on her 2021
#YoungWriterAward
shortlisted debut novel, Here Comes the Miracle.
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What an amazing shortlist we have this year. Who have you read?
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"I wanted a fresher, larger, more open-air version of 19th-cenury life."
Winner
@TomCrewe1
spoke to
@JohannaTC
about banned books, subverting Victorian clichés and his love of WrestleMania in yesterday's
@timesculture
.
Read more here:
#YoungWriterAward
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.
@RachelNAlong
has been shortlisted for the 2021
#YoungWriterAward
with My Darling from the Lions.
Gonzalo C. Garcia, 2021 Judge, describes the collection as a “vivid depiction of a coming of age."
#YoungWriterAward
#MyDarlingFromTheLions
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We are open for submissions to the 2020
#youngwriteraward
- we want to read ALL the best books published this year from writers aged 18-35 resident in UK and Ireland. … //
@thesundaytimes
@warwickuni
@aholgate
@LitBritish
@Soc_of_Authors
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Congratulations to Laura Freeman. Shortlisted for the 2018
#YoungWriterAward
for The Reading Cure
@LauraSFreeman
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"Rich in stylistic flair and thematic variety" - we're here at
@WaterstonesPicc
to hear from our shortlist on the eve of the winner's ceremony.
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Our 2022 chair of judges is Andrew Holgate (
@aholgate
), former Literary Editor of The Sunday Times. He revived the Young Writer Award in 2015, has judged numerous other prizes, and was chair of judges of the
@BGPrize
in 2021. He has edited two books.
#YoungWriterAward
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The new Sunday Times literary editor Johanna Thomas-Corr (
@JohannaTC
) is our next 2022 judge. She was previously a contributing writer for the
@NewStatesman
, and has written extensively for
@thetimes
,
@ObserverUK
and
@EveningStandard
.
#YoungWriterAward
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A fantastic opportunity to meet the authors shortlisted for the 2021
#YoungWriterAward
and find out more about their books, with
@SebastianFaulks
(Chair of the Charlotte Aitken Trust).
On the eve of the winner announcement of the Sunday Times
@YoungWriterYear
Award, we'll be joined by the shortlisted authors as they chat with
@SebastianFaulks
, read from their shortlisted titles and take questions from the audience. Details here:
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So excited to reveal our 2020
#youngwriterawardshadow
panel - welcome to
@excusemereading
@MarinaSofia8
@sissireads
@hopeisreading
and The Book Boy. We are delighted to have you on board!
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Lucy Burns is shortlisted for Larger than an Orange, an uncompromising and original memoir. With raw precision and determined honesty, Burns carves out a new space for complexity, ambivalence and individual experience. Published by
@vintagebooks
/
@ChattoBooks
.
#YoungWriterAward
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The 2018
#youngwriteraward
is open for submission! So excited to see this years' entries coming in //
@PFDAgents
@warwickuni
@thesundaytimes
@LitBritish
@Soc_of_Authors
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On Monday 13th March our four wonderful
#YoungWriterAward
shortlistees,
@Tom_Benn
,
@lucyburns66
,
@MaddieMortimer
and Katherine Rundell, will be joined by
@SebastianFaulks
at
@WaterstonesPicc
to discuss their shortlisted books. Not to be missed!
🎟️ Tickets
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We are thrilled to welcome our 2019
#youngwriterawardshadow
panel:
@annecater
@Bluebookballoon
@Lindahill50Hill
@yearsofreading
@brixtonbookworm
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“When your whole sense of sense is connected and formed by social community and social space and family, it’s difficult to simply distance and move away…” -
@michaelmagee__
#YoungWriterAward
#CloseToHome
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Next in our 2023
#YoungWriterAward
shortlist spotlight, here's
@lucyburns66
on how she came to write her uncompromising, intimate and original abortion memoir
#LargerThanAnOrange
.
Published by
@ChattoBooks
/
@vintagebooks
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Our
#YoungWriterAward
shortlist is announced! Congrats
@BenFergusson
@luckyflowerhowe
, Sunjeev Sahota & Sara Taylor
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Our fifth judge on this year's panel is
@DaljitNagra4
! ✨
An award-winning poet, Daljit is Professor of Creative Writing at
@Bruneluni
, Chair of
@RSLiterature
, and has published four poetry collections with
@FaberBooks
, and presents Poetry Extra on
@BBCRadio4
.
#YoungWriterAward
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'by returning to familiar ground and deepening his engagement with it, McMillan makes clear that the poetics of physical weren’t a one-off'. Lovely review of Playtime for our 2016 shortlisted writer
@AndrewPoetry
#YoungWriterAward
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"I’m interested in women and bodies, the ways in which existing as a physical object can harm us & shape us. I wanted to tell stories about the monstrous aspects of the everyday and the things... that can haunt us"
@JuliaArmfield
is over on the blog today
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We are so happy to reveal that our 2019
#youngwriterawardshadow
panel of bloggers has chosen their winner...
@JuliaArmfield
for
#saltslow
The 2019 winner of the
#youngwriteraward
will be announced on 5th Dec - will the judges agree with our shadow panel?
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In the last 30 years some incredible writers have won the
#YoungWriterAward
. Tonight we will find out who will be next. Check back here from 7:30pm to find out.
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.
@calflyn
is shortlisted for her eerie yet ultimately optimistic account of ecological diversity, Islands of Abandonment (
@WmCollinsBooks
@HarperCollins
).
#YoungWriterAward
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Lovely to pop by
@WaterstonesPicc
ahead of our
#YoungWriterAward
shortlist event on Monday 13th March!
Don't miss our four shortlisted authors,
@Tom_Benn
,
@lucyburns66
,
@MaddieMortimer
and Katherine Rundell, in conversation with
@SebastianFaulks
.
Tickets
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We're here at
@WaterstonesTCR
to ask our brilliant shortlisted authors all the questions for the
#YoungWriterAward
! Join us to witness the brightest writers of today,
@TomCrewe1
,
@NoreenMasud
,
@michaelmagee__
and Momtaza Mehri in conversation with
@SebastianFaulks
.
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“I was really interested in how these abandoned places make us humans feel – what it’s like to move through these places.”
@CalFlyn
on Islands of Abandonment, shortlisted for the 2021
#YoungWriterAward
.
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@calflyn
Thank you and congratulations to our shortlisted writers,
@AnnaBeecher
, Megan Nolan,
@CalebANelson
and
@rachelnalong
.
Thanks also go to
@SebastianFaulks
and the Charlotte Aitken Trust, and partners
@waterstones
,
@soc_of_authors
,
@thelondonlib
,
@britishcouncil
and
@warwickuni
.
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'If you despair now, you’ve surrendered when we need you.' Interesting interview with
@warwickuni
Professor of Creative Writing, AL Kennedy
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