Children's Fiction Competition from SCBWI

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Children's Fiction Competition from SCBWI

The British Isles Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) recently announced Malorie Blackman as the Honorary Chair for our project and begun accepting submissions from unagented and unpublished members for its third Undiscovered Voices anthology.

From our first two Undiscovered Voices anthologies in 2008 and 2010, 13 of the 24 selected authors are published or under contract to be. Awards for these publications include winning the Bedfordshire Children’s Book of the Year plus nominations for 11 regional awards, the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize, the Branford Boase Award, Blue Peter awards and one title was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal.

This third edition of the anthology will feature award-winning author Malorie Blackman as the honorary chair and will be judged by a panel of
editors, agents, booksellers and literary scouts: Rachel Boden, Commissioning Editor at Egmont; Jo Anne Cocadiz, book buyer/seller for Foyles children’s books department; Amber Caraveo, Editorial Director at Orion Children’s Books; Julia Churchill, Greenhouse Literary Agency; Dagmar Gleditzsch, literary scout; Catherine Pellegrino, Rogers, Coleridge & White; Jasmine Richards, Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford University Press; and Jenny Savill, Andrew Nurnberg Associates.

As usual, Undiscovered Voices will include a dozen extracts early readers up through young adult novels. The anthology will be published in 2012 and
sent free of charge to UK editors and agents focusing on children’s literature, in the hopes of getting these authors discovered. The book
will be produced by volunteers with the financial support of Working Partners Ltd, a London-based company which creates series fiction.

There is no submissions fee but only unagented and unpublished members of SCBWI British Isles are eligible. Membership is approximately £60, paid in US dollars through the main SCBWI website. The submission deadline is Monday 1st June 2011. Interested writers should visit http://www.undiscoveredvoices.com for eligibility requirements and submissions guidelines.