Shelf Awareness
Mark Smith has won this year's £2,000 (about $3,080) Kelpies Prize for Scottish Children's Writing for Slug Boy Saves the World. The award "was set up by Edinburgh-based publisher Floris Books and is given annually to the best children's book set in Scotland by a first-time author." As winner, Smith also receives a publishing contract and his book will be released next year. Senior commissioning editor Eleanor Collins said Slug Boy Saves the World "stood out with its fresh voice and hilarious characterization of the world's least likely superhero."
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A shortlist has been unveiled for the £2,000 (about $3,080) Historical Writers' Association's Debut Crown Award for historical fiction, the Bookseller reported. The winner will be named in October at the Harrogate History Festival. This year's shortlisted titles are:
The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
Wake by Anna Hope
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
The Winter Pilgrims by Toby Clements
The Good Italian by Stephen Burke
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
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The Rona Jaffe Foundation is giving its 21st annual Writers' Awards to six emerging women writers of exceptional talent, who will receive $30,000 each: Meehan Crist, Vanessa Hua, Ashley M. Jones, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Amanda Rea and Natalie Haney Tilghman.
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A shortlist has been unveiled for the £2,000 (about $3,080) Historical Writers' Association's Debut Crown Award for historical fiction, the Bookseller reported. The winner will be named in October at the Harrogate History Festival. This year's shortlisted titles are:
The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
Wake by Anna Hope
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
The Winter Pilgrims by Toby Clements
The Good Italian by Stephen Burke
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
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The Rona Jaffe Foundation is giving its 21st annual Writers' Awards to six emerging women writers of exceptional talent, who will receive $30,000 each: Meehan Crist, Vanessa Hua, Ashley M. Jones, Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Amanda Rea and Natalie Haney Tilghman.
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