International prizes for emerging writers
✨The Bath Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 31 May
✨The Bath Children's Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 30 Nov
www.bathnovelaward.co.uk
Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog, desultory gardener, attention span of a flea.
lissaevans.com
Children's author & conservationist. @BornFreeFDN ambassador & @manechance patron. She/her. THE LION CUB’S SECRET out on 9 October 2025
Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Author, a UK Patron of Reading and a Reading & Writing Motivator. Delivers motivational & inspiring sessions in schools and at events across the UK and beyond. Believes every school should have a library & a librarian at its heart.
Author and illustrator of How to Train Your Dragon, Wizards of Once and Which Way to Anywhere
Children's book writer with a side of veg and flowers. Based near the Bath
https://www.maudiesmith.co.uk/
https://contactanauthor.co.uk/Author/17/maudie-smith
Author, doctor, researcher and parent. Here for the #kidlitcommunity. My MG novel Dream Hunters came out Aug 2024 Simon and Schuster. #ukkidlit #booksky
Writer of many things.
YA: The Other Girl, is coming from Penguin in May 2025.
Sci fi in the US as Evie Green
Backpack, The Sleeper and various others, back in the day (and working on more)
Screenwriting is incoming...
Children's Writer.
Rep'd by Silvia Molteni at PFD.
School for Nobodies, The Three Impossibles, The Dangerous Life of Ophelia Bottom and Shoo! (Pushkin Press).
THE INVISIBLES - June 2025.
Website: susiebower.co.uk
Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
Year 4 obstacle race champion
Award-winning children's author, poet, reviewer & commentator. Lifetime Ambassador CILIP School Libraries Group, ambassador Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Northern Children's Book Festival. Co-writer 'High in the Clouds' with Paul McCartney
Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, There May Be A Castle and Midnight Treasure. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
Costa Award winning children’s author ASHA, TAMARIND, AARTI, XANTHE, NUSH and more! agent Kate Shaw I write magical adventures with animals and nature in them mostly @chickenhouse @barringtonstoke @walker
www.jasbinderbilan.co.uk
Author of mainly contemporary mystery books for younger readers. (The Goldfish Boy and more).
(And dogs. I love dogs.)
lisathompsonauthor.com
Agent: Adam Gauntlett at PFD
Times bestselling author. I write books for teens and books for adults. Ambassador for Women's Aid.
Award winning children's author. 'No Ballet Shoes in Syria' 'Bird Boy'. Also writing as Cate Shearwater! Teacher too! Rep'd by Rupert Crew
