Marianne van Pelt

American-Irish novelist-in-progress 🇺🇸🇮🇪. Winner @prize_novel 2025. Rep Stephanie Glencross David Higham Books

[Marianne van Pelt @mvanpeltwriter]

Thrilled & stunned to share that my novel 'My Dark Bowered Queen' has WON the @prize_novel! So grateful to @saranaidinecox, the judges, and everyone behind the prize for their endless support for emerging writers. Congratulations to Grace & Joanne & everyone listed👏💚

[Cheshire Novel Prize @prize_novel]

We are so excited to announce our 2025 winner and highly commended for Cheshire Novel Prize in which is now our fourth year. Thank you to everyone who entered and congratulations to Marianne, Grace and Joanne! And we will see you next year after all when we reopen on 1st March 26

[Marianne van Pelt @mvanpeltwriter]

Delighted to share that I'm now represented by the brilliant Stephanie Glencross @DHAbooks ! Stephanie is everything a writer could hope for in an agent: warm, smart, tough, and an insightful editor. Huge thanks to @prize_novel and @saranaidinecox for making this happen!! 🙏

[Sara Cox @saranaidinecox]

This was our inaugural year in which most of our shortlisted writers secured agents. I am sure we must have the highest ratio of getting agents and publishing deals as far as most prizes go. This is what makes it worthwhije

[Marianne van Pelt @mvanpeltwriter]

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[Cheshire Novel Prize @prize_novel]

We are so excited to announce our 2025 winner and highly commended for Cheshire Novel Prize in which is now our fourth year. Thank you to everyone who entered and congratulations to Marianne, Grace and Joanne! And we will see you next year after all when we reopen on 1st March 26

[Cheshire Novel Prize @prize_novel]

We will be posting interviews with our writers and excerpts of our shortlisted writers novels on our website next week and so …

[Cheshire Novel Prize @prize_novel]

You can find the full list of our shortlisted and long-listed writers for our 2025 competition here! Congratulations to all of these wonderful writers!

https://t.co/J0IDyuLRn4

[Marianne van Pelt @mvanpeltwriter]

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[Marianne van Pelt @mvanpeltwriter]

Happy Halloween 🏴‍☠️🎃

[Marianne van Pelt @mvanpeltwriter]

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[Mary York @Mary_ork]

Dear writers:

Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.

[Sara Cox @saranaidinecox]

Put Fridays in your diaries from 31st October 2025. Our podcasts will drop Fridays at 0001. Yes these are weekly! We have 6 episodes to start + a bonus ep in December -more news soon but follow us on the place beginning with S and rhyming with clack!! #TheTorturedwritersPodcast

[Cheshire Novel Prize @prize_novel]

We are currently collating our feedback. This is a reminder that as we opened 3 months later this year in May and not January and so our feedback will go out from the 1st November 2025 to 1st January 2026.

[Cheshire Novel Prize @prize_novel]

Put Fridays in your diaries from 31st October 2025. Our podcasts will drop Fridays at 0001. Yes these are weekly! We have 6 episodes to start + a bonus ep in December -more news soon but follow us on the place beginning with S and rhyming with clack!! #TheTorturedwritersPodcast

[Cheshire Novel Prize @prize_novel]

Exciting Shortlist announcement today at 2pm! A reminder that the reason the feedback is later going out this year is because we opened for entries 5 months later in May - we normally open January 1st - feedback will go out from November 1st 2025 to January 2026! See you later