The London Library has announced the winning cohort of 40 writers for its 2023–2024 Emerging Writers Programme.
Recipients included Jess Barnfield, senior audio editor at HarperCollins, creative audio producer Nicole Davis, who helped create the recently launched storytelling podcast “Never Told”, and freelance translator Margaret Morrison. HarperCollins Author Academy graduate Rachael Li Ming Chong has also won a place as has Airy, a fashion stylist and drag queen, along with 71-year-old engineer and physicist Avril Millar.
The writers hail from across the UK, from Edinburgh to Brighton, including Northern Ireland and Wales.
Of the 40 writers, nine are working on non-fiction, including five memoirs and three food writing projects. Eight are novelists, seven are writing for stage/screen, five are poets, five are writing for children or YA, four are short story writers and two are working on translations. For the first time the programme welcomes two new genres: food writing and translation.
Forty participants were selected from around 1,400 applicants — a record number of entries for the scheme — by a panel of judges including poet and playwright Caroline Bird, screenwriter and playwright Moira Buffini, non-fiction writer Travis Elborough, novelist and short story writer Zoe Gilbert, novelist Ayisha Malik, and Aitken Alexander agents Emma Paterson and Chris Wellbelove.
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