** ANNOUNCEMENT ***
New Talent Award aims to
uncover romantic fiction authors of the future
The Festival of Romance
is delighted to announce that the New Talent Award will run again this year.
The industry judges are Georgina Hawtrey-Woore senior editor at Cornerstones,
Random House and Diane Banks, literary agent at the Diane Banks Associates
Literary Agency.
The Festival of Romance
New Talent Award aims to cast a spotlight on the authors of tomorrow and is
open to all writers who have not yet had a book commercially published. Writers
may submit the opening chapter (up to 3,500 words) of a romantic novel of any
type by 30th September
2012. The winner and runners-up will be announced and presented with trophies
at the gala Festival of Romance Awards on Friday 16th November 2012. There is a small entry
fee to cover the award administration. Entrants may also gain a critique of
their entry written by a professional novelist.
“As part of the Festival
of Romance we want to help new writers with talent get their break into the
commercial fiction world,” says Kate Allan, chief romantic at the Festival of
Romance. “At the Festival of Romance in November we are running writing
workshops, an industry conference and chance to meet publishers face to face as
well as the New Talent Award. I'm delighted that Georgina Hawtrey-Woore and
Diane Banks have agreed to judge this year's entries.”
Winner of the 2011 New
Talent Award Henriette Gyland subsequently garnered a book deal from publishers
Choc Lit. Her debut novel Up Close will be published in December 2012.
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