Thrilled to have won the Picture Book category of the 2025 @writementor Awards! Such a wonderful feeling to have my story recognised. Congratulations to the other category winners & short and long-listees, and thank you @writementor for giving us the chance to showcase our work๐
Thank you to DHA agent Deirdre Power for judging the picture book category in this year's WriteMentor Novel & Picture Book Awards ๐๏ธ Deirdre selected PELICANโS BEACH by Jennie Saywell as her winner, and SHOW-STOPPA-STOUNDING! by Helen Hooper as the runner-up.
Thank you to DHA agent Deirdre Power for judging the picture book category in this year's WriteMentor Novel & Picture Book Awards ๐๏ธ Deirdre selected PELICANโS BEACH by Jennie Saywell as her winner, and SHOW-STOPPA-STOUNDING! by Helen Hooper as the runner-up.
Meet the winner of the Picture Book Category for this year's WriteMentor Novel & Picture Book Awards Jennie Saywell, whose rhyming picture book PELICANโS BEACH was chosen by @DHAbooks agent judge @deedotpower.
Congratulations Jennie, from all of us at WriteMentor! ๐
@helen_stories@DHAbooks@writementor Thank you! Impressive detective work๐ต๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝโ๏ธ๐ I'm still so shocked. Well done on your TWO brilliant achievements!๐๐๐
Thrilled to have won the Picture Book category of the 2025 @writementor Awards! Such a wonderful feeling to have my story recognised. Congratulations to the other category winners & short and long-listees, and thank you @writementor for giving us the chance to showcase our work๐
WriteMentor is delighted to announce the winners of its 2025 Novel and Picture Book Awards, judged by David Higham Associates, which showcases new writing talent in both childrenโs and adult fiction.
Picture Book Category Winner: PELICANโS BEACH by Jennie Saywell
Children's Fiction Category Winner: I STILL STAND by Claire Lomas
Adult Fiction Category Winner: UNMEANT by S R Simmons
Read the judges thoughts, the responses from the winners, and see all the runner-up and honourable mentions (if applicable by that judge), shortlisted and long listed authors named in the full post here:
https://t.co/qMWCWh6dTG
There was an unexpected visitor to Twickenham Library yesterday when a fox decided to pop in and make themselves VERY comfortable! ๐ฆ
The @RichmondLibs team had to close the up temporarily to remove the fox, who we can only assume was after some Roald Dahl...
@ycaanews I would love to enter but have one question. I saw that text has to be double spaced, but when I paste it into the form, it loses all formatting including line spacing. Is that OK? Also, does a picture book submission need a synopsis too? Thanks!