Author: Susan Brownrigg

Thanks to our Undiscovered Voices founders, Sara Grant and Sara O’Connor, who put together this guide, you can figure out the best approach to writing your pitch. This year, the elevator pitch for UV submissions is 35 words. You don’t… Read more

Three, 60-Minute Undiscovered Voices Masterclasses Do you want to be one of the fresh, original voices featured in the next Undiscovered Voices anthology? The Undiscovered Voices team has created a series of three, 60-minute masterclasses to help you prepare your… Read more

I’m not going to lie to you – openings are hard. Balancing the structural work of world-building, plot, and setting with the artistic choices of character voice, narrative devices, and sentence rhythm is challenging even the most experienced authors. Add… Read more

We could not be more delighted to share the news that UV co-founder and all-around literary superstar Sara Grant is our UV2024 Honorary Chair! Sara Grant is a teacher, mentor, editor, and author of the CHASING DANGER series, DARK PARTIES,… Read more

Amber Caravéo is co-founder of Skylark Literary, a boutique literary agency that seeks and supports the very best in Children’s and YA fiction. Prior to founding Skylark, Amber was Editorial Director for Orion Children’s Books, working with a host of… Read more

Once again SCBWI British Isles plans to help fresh, new voices in children’s literature find agents and publishers through its Undiscovered Voices anthology project. Join us for an online panel discussion with this year’s Undiscovered Voices judges. This free event will tell you everything you… Read more

What’s the worst that can happen? You send in your extract and it doesn’t come anywhere. You feel disappointed and discouraged. Agents across the world add you to their ‘bad writer’ list, and you might as well give up writing… Read more

It gives us great pleasure to share with you who will be judging this year’s competition and to thank them all for taking part. Five UK literary agents and two editors comprise the all-star judging panel for Undiscovered Voices 2024:… Read more

Once again, SCBWI British Isles plans to help fresh, new voices in children’s literature find agents and publishers through its Undiscovered Voices project. The Undiscovered Voices anthology will include at least twelve fiction extracts – from early readers to young… Read more

The Undiscovered Voices Team are busy organising lots of exciting events to begin the search for all the fabulous writers who will feature in our ninth anthology. So, what will you need to polish up to include in your UV2024… Read more