Calling all potential authors! Diverse Voices Award Update
The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award 2010
Closing Date for Entries – Friday 26 February 2010

The deadline for entries is fast approaching and submissions have already started to arrive – we are anticipating even more in this second year. The Award aims to promote diversity in children’s fiction and is for a manuscript that celebrates cultural diversity in the widest possible sense, either in terms of its story or the ethnic and cultural origins of its author.
The prize of £1,500, plus the option for Frances Lincoln Children’s Books to publish the novel, will be awarded to the best work of unpublished fiction for 8–to-12-year-olds by a writer, aged 16 or over, who has not previously published a novel for children.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 work must be written in English and it must be a minimum of 15,000 words and a maximum of 35,000 words.

If you entered for 2009 you’re welcome to submit a new story for 2010 as long as you still meet the entry criteria. Full entry conditions and applications forms can be downloaded from www.sevenstories.org.uk or by emailing diversevoices@sevenstories.org.uk

Look out in June next year for the publication of the first Diverse Voices’ winning story, Takeshita Demons by Cristy Burne, a fast-paced adventure story about a Japanese schoolgirl who confronts the demons from her grandmother’s tales.
The Diverse Voices Award is supported by Frances Lincoln Ltd and Arts & Business through their New Partners Investment Scheme.