International Writing for Children/YA competition.
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Shortlisted for Searchlight’s Best Novel Opening 2024 competition and now represented by @keslupo . Calling all publishers…
#WritingCommunity
19 Apr 2025
magical-realist horror
1898 Puerto Rico
explores the terror of puberty
unreliable narrator
Pan's Labyrinth x creepy dolls
Rep: @keslupo @ Donald Maass Lit
#posterpitA #posterpit #MG #H #horror #gothic
@IAmInPrint @WritingAwards @DeborahHalversn
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BOOK NEWS! @JaxKingWrites and @Sammie45209729 teamed up for our Best Illustrated Picture Book 2023 competition. Now their shortlisted book is published! Wow! 🥳 Couldn’t be more proud of our author/illustrator pair. ❤️
#writingcommunity #picturebook #searchlightawards
10 Apr 2025
HE’S OUT! ✨Stinky Cyril✨ He entered the world today and he’s SO excited! 😍 @Sammie45209729 @TinyTreeBooks #Kidlit #PB #WritingCommunity #Bears #Funny #Childrensbook 🐻❤️
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AGENT NEWS. Not one but two offers of representation for our fabulous Best Novel Opening 2024 shortlistee @mcalvani . Wow! Mayra has now signed with the equally fabulous @keslupo of @MaassLitAgency . What a perfect match! Huge congrats, Mayra.
2 Apr 2025
I’m thrilled to share that I am now represented by Kesia Lupo at the Donald Maass Lit. Agency. I’m so grateful for her belief in my work and excited for the road ahead. Here’s to new chapters and fresh pages! 🥂📚✍️ @keslupo @WritingAwards @IAmInPrint
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BOOK NEWS. This story was shortlisted for our best picture book text competition in 2022 and now it’s published! Delighted for @Writes_Nadine . 🥳
27 Mar 2025
Happy #PublicationDay, @writes_nadine! 📖✨
Mina the Mighty by Nadine Holland and Wenny Stefanie is out now: amzn.to/3ZB8mmI
#kidlit
ALT Author Nadine Holland with copies of Mina the Mighty
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Very proud of our Searchlight listee, @AmandaAuthorArt . 👏
26 Mar 2025
Yeah! I am on the shortlist for the New Angle Prize for Literature 2025 with my YA novel, Looking for Lucie. This is an award for a book of literary merit set in/influenced by East Anglia. Congratualtions to all on the shortlist!
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BOOK NEWS! Absolutely delighted for our 2021 shortlistee @HarrietHoweBks . Huge congrats, Harriet. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
#WritingCommunity
#searchlightawards
24 Mar 2025
.@templarbooks has signed Tiger's Last Roar, a picture book by debut author @HarrietHoweBks and Carnegie nominated illustrator Katie Cottle
bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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Huge congrats to Searchlight listee @SPoyton . What fantastic news! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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ANNOUNCEMENT- We have decided to take a short break in 2025 to give our entrants time to work on amazing new stories. Our next competition will be opening in 2026. Best of luck with your writing and see you all soon!
#WritingCommunity #searchlightawards
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Searchlight Writing for Children Awards retweeted
13 Mar 2025
I'm so thankful to be on this list; I felt stuck in a rut so this has given me a massive lift. Congratulations to the winner, Tom, runner up, Jane, and my fellow shortlistees. And to those feeling fed up, never give up! You never know what's around the corner!
Our Winners’ Gallery for Best Novel Opening and Best Picture Book Text 2024 is now live! See who won, read short extracts of the stories… Congratulations to all! 👏👏👏
searchlightawards.co.uk/winn…
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Searchlight Writing for Children Awards retweeted
12 Mar 2025
I'm honored to be shortlisted. Thanks for the opportunity @WritingAwards
I've had two agents reached out to me asking for the full manuscript.
Our Winners’ Gallery for Best Novel Opening and Best Picture Book Text 2024 is now live! See who won, read short extracts of the stories… Congratulations to all! 👏👏👏
searchlightawards.co.uk/winn…
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Our Winners’ Gallery for Best Novel Opening and Best Picture Book Text 2024 is now live! See who won, read short extracts of the stories… Congratulations to all! 👏👏👏
searchlightawards.co.uk/winn…
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The moment we sent out our Agent/Publisher Pitch Book of Winning Stories @GavinCrippin1 started getting interest. ‘Such a great voice’ was the general opinion. Things moved at lightning speed and we’re delighted to say that Gavin has now accepted representation. Fantastic news!
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BOOK NEWS - We’re seeing Olivia Wakeford’s book EVERYWHERE! 🥳 Back in 2021 My Dog was one of our competition entries and our readers fell in love with it. ❤️Since then Olivia’s joined our reading team and she’s brilliant at selecting stories, too. Massive congrats, @livvywivvy .
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AGENT NEWS! Huge congratulations to the winner of Searchlight’s Best Picture Book Text 2024 competition @tomwriting_X . ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
#WritingCommunity #searchlightawards #Kidlit
17 Feb 2025
I’m delighted to share that I’m now represented by Georgia Tournay-Godfrey at
@_Bright_Agency! 🥳🎉🍾
I’m SO excited to join the Bright family and can’t wait to start working with Georgia.
#kidlit #picturebooks
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Searchlight Writing for Children Awards retweeted
11 Feb 2025
I can't believe I missed this!! I'm totally over the moon to be shortlisted for this award! Huge congratulations to Gavin and Eva and the other shortlistees ❤️ #searchlightwriting #amwriting
We are thrilled to announce the results of Best Novel Opening 2024. Congratulations to our final 10! ⭐️ 🥳
A huge thank you to all our entrants for being brave and allowing us to read your work. It has been a privilege and a pleasure.
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Heartfelt thanks to the Searchlight team: To Alex Wood our expert IT partner, to our truly amazing readers - you are the best! - and to our brilliant guest judges @HemingwayLorna of @BLM_Agency and Rachel Petty of @TBP_agency . I couldn’t run the competitions without you.❤️ Kim.
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Searchlight Writing for Children Awards retweeted
7 Feb 2025
I’m thrilled to win @WritingAwards’ Best Picture Book Text 2024!
Huge thanks to Kim Donovan for organising, @HemingwayLorna for judging, and all the amazing readers for this competition. Congratulations to all the other entrants for putting their fantastic stories out there! 🙌🏻
Announcing the long-awaited results of Best Picture Book Text 2024. Huge congratulations to our final 10! ⭐️ 🥳
Thank you to all the writers who entered this competition. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to read your stories. ❤️
searchlightawards.co.uk/best…
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Tom Lancaster has been crowned the winner of Best Picture Book Text 2024. Our judge Lorna Hemingway of Bell Lomax Moreton said that Bamboo Hullabaloo was ‘a joy to read aloud due to its excellent rhyme and fast paced nature’. Many congratulations, Tom! 🥳⭐️🍾
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