In May 2022, Guppy Books opened its portholes for unpublished and unagented young adult writers – and we had an amazing response! With around 220 entries, it was exhilarating to see the talent and creativity demonstrated. Their contributions have been invaluable, and I’m very grateful to them all.Īnd thank you to all the shortlistees for their brilliance and also their patience during the judging process.Īnnouncing the Guppy YA Open Submissions Longlist 2022! Two budding authors of the future to watch out for… congratulations to both Olivia and Hannah!Ī huge thanks to the panel of judges: Linda Sargent and Adamma Okonkwo, two brilliant editorial brains who have judged this competition for three years now Caroline Fielding, librarian extraordinaire (and ex-Carnegie judge) and Peter Simmonds, bookseller at The Bookshop on the Green and creative writing student. The judges and I agreed that these two novels were so strong and so impressive – NOT WITH A BANG is fierce and intelligent, and made us all laugh out loud, impressing us with its zing, originality and glee GUM carried us along on an emotional journey with such a strong and compelling young adult voice. We are thrilled to announce that OLIVIA COLLARD and her fantastically funny, bonkers, original novel NOT WITH A BANG has won the 2022 Open Submission Competition!Īnd the worth 2022 runner-up is HANNAH EKEKWE with the emotionally truthful and utterly engaging GUM. GUPPY OPEN SUBMISSION COMPETITION 2022 WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
We do not charge an entry fee, though we would invite all entrants to buy a book published by Guppy Books if they can (available from all bookshops and online retailers as well as the Guppy shop). The winner will be offered a contract with Guppy Books (with no obligation to accept).
Any enquiries, please email winner will be announced in the autumn of 2023, after whittling down to first a longlist and then a shortlist – please keep an eye on social media and the Guppy Books website for updates along the way.Īll shortlisted authors will be offered an editorial meeting with Bella Pearson. Please don’t worry too much/spend much time on the synopsis – we want to see it in order to get a sense of what happens in your story, but your writing itself is much more important.
Christian publishers accepting unsolicited manuscripts 2022 plus#
To submit, please include the first 2000 words of your middle-grade novel (or thereabouts – if it’s a bit less or more due to chapter breaks, that’s fine), plus a synopsis. Please email your submission to between 9am GMT on Monday 12th June and 6pm GMT on Friday 16th June 2023. We strive to be as open as we can be with as few barriers to entry as possible, and encourage all aspiring writers to apply. All these talented writers submitted for this competition and we are very grateful that they did!Īnd now, we are throwing open the portholes again… Between 12th and 16th of June 2023, we ask all unpublished and unagented middle-grade writers to submit their novels for consideration in the competition. Not before a runner-up in the 2021 competition, Carrie Sellon, has her book Pizza Pete and the Perilous Potions, published in June this year by Guppy. The winner of the 2021 middle-grade competition was the incredible James Dixon with The Billow Maiden which we published in 2022, a critically acclaimed and beautifully evocative novel, and 2022’s worthy winner Olivia Collard’s YA novel will be published by Guppy in spring 2024. It is an extraordinary novel and was chosen from nearly 400 submissions. And it came from the very first Open Submission Competition we ran here at Guppy Books in 2020. In April, we were over the moon that Nadia Mikail’s YA novel, The Cats We Meet Along the Way, won the Waterstones Overall Children’s Book Prize 2023 – it was a huge accolade for Nadia and shows the great love that booksellers have for her beautifully original book. The Guppy Open Submission competition for middle-grade writers is back! The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars.The Lost Diaries of Charlie Small: Puppet Master.The Lost Diaries of Charlie Small: Pirate Galleon.The Lost Diaries of Charlie Small: Gorilla City COMPETITION!.The Lost Diaries of Charlie Small: Destiny Mountain.The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone.Knight Sir Louis and the Dreadful Damsel.Knight Sir Louis and the Dragon of Doooooom!.Ghost Scouts: Hullabaloo at Camp Croak!.
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