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Author, editor, creative writing teacher, book blogger, believer in life-long learning. My agent is the fabulous Emma Shercliff of @laxfieldliterary

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🌟 3 DAYS LEFT — AND SOME SERIOUS INSPIRATION 🌟
Past Book Edit Writers’ Prize winner @uduaque_ has had an incredible year:
🏆 Runner-up, The Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction 2026 🏆 Shortlisted, Women’s Prize Discoveries 2026 🏆 Winner, Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2026, for ‘The Prodigal Father.’ And just days ago, ‘The Prodigal Father’ was published online by Wasafiri.

Every one of our winners started exactly where you are now, with an entry. Entries close 5pm this Friday, 16 October. Link in bio!
#WritersPrize #WriterSuccess #diversebooks voices #UnpublishedWriters #WritingCommunity

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🎙️ JUDGE SPOTLIGHT 🎙️
Meet @midorikawaemily, judge of this year’s Book Edit Writers’ Prize! ✨
Emily’s debut novel, A Tiny Speck of Black and Then Nothing, took over two decades from first draft to publication with Manilla Press. Her advice to writers sitting on an unfinished manuscript? “The work will not die in your absence from it. It may lie dormant, but it can be revived.”
She’s also co-author, with @littlegoatbarnretreats director Emma Claire Sweeney, of A Secret Sisterhood and author of Out of the Shadows, and a former prize winner herself.
On what she’s hoping to find in this year’s entries: “A sense of atmosphere, a strong voice and characters that I can believe in.”
Read the full interview – link in bio. Entries close 16 October!
#WritersPrize #AuthorSpotlight #Diversevoices #UKPublishing #WritingCommunity

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🎉 IT’S HERE! The Book Edit Writers’ Prize 2026 is officially open for entries! 📖✨
Eight talented unpublished writers, from backgrounds and communities currently underrepresented in UK publishing, will read their work to an audience of literary agents at our online showcase in November.

This year we’re delighted to welcome award-winning author @midorikawaemily as our judge.

💷 Completely free to enter
📝 Just 1,000 words + a synopsis from a completed novel
⏰ Deadline: 16 October
Full details via link in bio. Good luck!
#WritersPrize #UnpublishedWriters #WritingCommunity #diversityinpublishing #NewVoices

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Published in 2008. 2 Goodreads reviews. 9 ratings. 🤯

This is a SERIOUSLY under-read book!

Home by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone is creepy, bleak and deeply unsettling, but what really got me is that underneath the horror is a sharp look at ageing, institutionalisation and what happens when people become invisible in society.

It’s the kind of book that makes you uncomfortable, makes you think, and then sticks around long after you’ve finished it.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me - and now I’m wondering how on earth so few people have read it! Because 3 years on from reading it myself, and coming up on 18 years since it was published and only 2 other people (besides myself) have reviewed it on GoodReads….what?!

I love finding books that feel like they’ve somehow slipped through the cracks - but then they make me want to tell everyone about them!

#underratedreads #psychologicalhorror #amreading

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Not quite ready to apply to the Novel Studio, but curious? Come and experience it for yourself. 🖊️
As founder and director of the Novel Studio at City St George’s, I’m delighted to share that we’re running a free one-hour taster session next Thursday 18th June, 12:30–1:30pm BST, online via Zoom.
Dr Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone will explore reading like a writer while Dr Kiare Ladner will turn to the art of endings. Two brilliant tutors. One hour. Completely free.
There’ll also be an overview of the programme and time for your questions, and our application deadline is 30th June, so this is the perfect moment to make up your mind.
Places are limited — link in bio to register.

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I can’t promise you’ll become a Sunday Times bestselling crime author nor end up on Traitors. 👀 (Though one of the Novel Studio alumni did exactly that.)
What I can promise is a year of brilliant teaching, genuine community, and real progress on your novel. 🖊️
As founder and director of the Novel Studio at City St George’s, I’m looking for writers who are serious about their novel, and we still have spaces for our September start.
We’ve extended the deadline to 30th June, and there’s a bonus too:
🎟️ The next ten people to apply get a free ticket to our end-of-year showcase.
To apply, email me Emily.Pedder.1@city.ac.uk with 2,000 words of fiction + a CV of your writing experience.
Link in bio ✨#harriettyce #novelstudio #creativewritings #bookstagramuk🇬🇧

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The Shortlist Sessions: Part Four ✨

In our final shortlist sessions, we’re delighted to introduce Esohe Uwadiae and Shehrazade Zafar-Arif

Swipe to discover more about these two brilliant writers 👉
Huge thank you to all our shortlisted authors, finalists and to the wonderful @janiceokoh for her impeccable judging. Link in bio to listen to the writers.
#TheShortlistSessions #BookEditWritersPrize #WritersCommunity #emergingwriters #bookstagramuk

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The Shortlist Sessions: Part Two ✨
Meet the next two writers shortlisted for the Book Edit Writers’ Prize – Matthew Fothergill and Susannah Jong-Sook Bond.

Swipe to discover more about these two exceptional writers 👉 And check link in bio to listen to their work.

#TheShortlistSessions #BookEditWritersPrize #WritersCommunity #EmergingWriters #HistoricalFiction

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Final post on our wonderful Book Edit Writers’ Prize winners. Congratulations to Kirsty, Phil and all our winning writers. Link to their work and readings in bio. Merry Christmas 🎅 🎉🥳 #underrepresentedartists #diversebooks #emergingwriters #diversevoices

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Continuing our celebration of this year’s 📚Book Edit Writers’ Prize winners, here are two more fabulous writers. Read and hear their work through link in bio 🥳 #unpublished #diversevoices #emerginartist #fictionwriter

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More about our brilliant 📚Book Edit Writers’ Prize Winners 🏆celebrating and championing diverse voices. Link in bio to listen to and read their winning entries 🎉

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📚🏆Delighted to share more about the brilliant winners of this year’s Book Edit@Writers’ Prize. Their winning entries are now available to read in an anthology published on our site along with a recording of their readings from the showcase. Click link in bio for more and look out for the other winners over the coming days! 🥳

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