Writers Magazine 2009

Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award 2010

Closing date 26 February 2010 

Prize £1,500 ($2,471), plus the option for Frances Lincoln Children’s Books to publish the novel

Awarded to the best work of unpublished fiction for 8–to-12-year-olds by a writer, aged 16 or over, who has not previously published a novel for children. The writer may have contributed to an anthology of prose or poetry. 

The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award is for a manuscript that celebrates cultural diversity in the widest possible sense, either in terms of its story or in terms of the ethnic and cultural origins of its author. The work must be written in English and it must be a minimum of 15,000 words and a maximum of 35,000 words.

The winning entry will be announced at the beginning of June 2010
For more details visit www.sevenstories.org.uk

The purpose of The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award is to:

1. Take positive steps to increase the representation of people writing from or about different cultural perspectives, whose work is published in Britain today.
2. Promote new writing for children, especially by or about people whose culture and voice are currently under-represented.
3. Recognise that as children’s books shape our earliest perceptions of the world and its cultures, promoting writing that represents diversity will contribute to social and cultural tolerance.
4. Support the process of writing rather than, as with the majority of prizes, promoting the publication.

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