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New Writing Ventures will not be running in
2008.
New Writing Ventures is our national writing prize, set up to
nurture new talent across a range of genres.
After three very successful years we are taking a break to
evaluate the impact of the programme and to determine its direction
in the future.
"The New Writing Ventures Awards are a fantastic
opportunity for unpublished writers. The winners to date have been
extremely talented and, as agents, we always pay close attention to
those shortlisted" – Euan Thorneycroft, Agent, A M Heath,
now representing Eleanor Thom, Fiction Winner, New Writing Ventures
2006.
Over the past three years we’ve worked with twenty seven great
new writers and seen some amazing collections of poetry and novels
published. We’ve seen writers find agents, change genres, discover
whole new areas of interest and most importantly, benefit from in
depth mentoring relationships with established writers that will
continue to have an impact on their writing careers for some time
to come.
New Writing Ventures has had the support of some of the
country’s best writers, including Ali Smith, Andrew Motion, William
Fiennes and Patricia Duncker and we'd like to thank all the
participating writers, mentors, judges and entrants to New Writing
Ventures over the past three years, and hope that you’ll keep an
eye on the New Writing Ventures website for further news
about new developments.
If you’d like to be added to the New Writing Partnership
newsletter mailing list to be the first to hear of our new
developments with Ventures and the other programmes we run, return
to the Home
Page and sign up now!
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New Writing Ventures Writers 2007
The
winners were announced on September 12th 2007. To read the winners,
shortlisted and commended writers' work, please click on the
relevent link; fiction,
non-fiction,
or poetry.
Read an article in the Independent about the shortlisted
candidates here,
and from the Guardian here.
And click
here to read an account of the importance and effect of
Ventures by past winner, Nicholas Hogg, whose debut novel is
being published later in 2008.
- Winners in each category received £3,000 and a year of creative
mentoring from The
Literary Consultancy.
- Two runners-up in each category each received a £1,000 cash
prize.
- As one of the nine most talented emerging writers in the UK,
writers meet agents and publishing professionals at an exclusive
London industry event.
- Samples of writers work are sent to agents and scouts as part
of a promotional campaign.
The awards were administered by the national,
independent charity dedicated to promoting literacy: Booktrust. Booktrust runs
several successful reading campaigns and manages numerous literary
prizes.
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