The 2018 Judges

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Young Writer Award @YoungWriterYear

• YoungWriterYear RT @thebbookshop: Really looking forward to our event next Weds 28th Nov 7pm with @adamweymouth in conversation about his book Kings of the…

• YoungWriterYear RT @aholgate: Here's Laura Freeman, the second of our shortlistees in this year's Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer Award, i…

• YoungWriterYear RT @aholgate: "Very few books are too short, many are two long." Terrific Top Tips advice from PFD's Tim Bates on self-editing, at the Su…

• YoungWriterYear RT @Soc_of_Authors: WAIT. Not done yet. If you haven't written a novel yet, don't fret! The Somerset Maugham Awards are looking for publish…

• YoungWriterYear RT @Soc_of_Authors: Under 35 and written your first novel? Pretty proud of it? Get your publisher to enter the Betty Trask Prize and Betty…

• YoungWriterYear RT @TLCUK: A great piece from @ceciliaknapp on #mentoring and how it has helped her writing, via @STWevents - https://t.co/yo8OmIiIUe

• YoungWriterYear RT @aholgate: Congratulations to Esi Edugyan for winning the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Washington Black. The Sunday Times…

• YoungWriterYear RT @PFDAgents: Make sure you get a chance to read @LauraSFreeman, shortlisted author for 'The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite'…

• YoungWriterYear RT @AkiSchilz: ***KLAXON!*** The @BridportPrize 2019 competition is now OPEN for entries. With judges @holliepoetry (poetry) @kirstylogan (…

• YoungWriterYear 'The stuff in the drawer is as important as the stuff that finds its reader.' Laura Freeman @LauraSFreeman, shortli… https://t.co/WzMMIeLHkT

• YoungWriterYear RT @Alex_Lily: My June interview with Rachel Cusk is now up at the @NewYorker. She still doesn't believe in character, and I still think I…

• YoungWriterYear 'If you despair now, you’ve surrendered when we need you.' Interesting interview with @warwickuni Professor of Crea… https://t.co/5qwWj8K2S1

• YoungWriterYear 'I really didn't want it to be one of those man versus nature books' says Adam on being asked to include more of hi… https://t.co/fk7DiTYqLg

• YoungWriterYear Laura worked back and forth with her agent to produce the first two chapters of The Reading Cure which was then taken on by an editor.

• YoungWriterYear Imogen wrote her novel as an escape from the book she was writing on her MA. She wrote The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock mostly alone.

• YoungWriterYear 'I'm the queen of unfinished projects,' says Fiona in response to why she wrote a full draft of Elmet before she showed it to anyone.

• YoungWriterYear Adam saw the salmon on the Yukon river as a way to explore the world's reaction to how we look after - or not - our natural resources.

• YoungWriterYear Imogen was interested in the mermaid in the British Museum when she worked there. She began with a 2000 word story… https://t.co/W40WFByOIV

• YoungWriterYear Fiona talks about writing on her phone describing it as quite private. The description of the landscape around the… https://t.co/pGaMH3ueYD

• YoungWriterYear Laura says The Reading Cure was a way to write about her anorexia. She began by writing a 1000 word article. Some f… https://t.co/SfcFn7a37a