An opportunity for young poets and a new competition for children's
writing.
Foyle Young Poets
Closing date 31 July 2008
The Foyle Young Poets
of the Year Award is Britain's most prestigious poetry prize for young writers
between the ages of 11 and 17. Each year a hundred of the best young poets
in the UK and beyond are chosen as winners, as well as some of the most active
poetry schools with special prizes for both 11-14 and 15-17 year olds.
The judges will be poets
Ian McMillan and Eva Salzman.
For more details visit
the Poetry
Society’s website
The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices
Children's Book Award
Frances Lincoln Limited
and Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books, have just announced that
they have created an award in memory of publisher Frances Lincoln.
Closing date 30 January
2009
The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award is for a manuscript
that celebrates cultural diversity in the widest possible sense, either in terms
of its story or in terms of the ethnic and cultural origins of its author.
The prize of £1,500, plus the option for Frances Lincoln Children's Books to
publish the novel, will be awarded to the best work of unpublished fiction for
8–to-12-year-olds by a writer, aged 16 years or over, who has not previously
published a novel for children.
The work must be written in English and it must be a minimum of 10,000 words and
a maximum of 30,000 words. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony at
Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books, in April 2009.
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