The thing they don’t tell you about Undiscovered Voices is how it turns your writing life upside down. I’d been writing for a long time before I became a 2014 winner, and I knew the process. You write a novel…. Read more
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Guest Blog: Matt Ralphs – Everything to Gain, Almost Nothing to Lose
It was August 2013. I had a nearly finished manuscript, and a plan. I was aiming to submit my children’s novel, Fire Girl, to literary agents after Christmas and then cross my fingers. I was braced for the wait. The… Read more
Captured by a First Line: Sara Grant on Reading Submissions
Sara Grant got her agent and ultimately her first book deal through Undiscovered Voices. Now she’s on the other side of the submissions process and part of the team of editors who do the initial read through of all the… Read more
Guest Blog: Jane McLoughlin – UV’s “Awesomeness”
Last month I was delighted (and proud) to be attending SCBWI’s Undiscovered Voices launch at Foyles Books in London. This competition (open to SCBWI members only—so join, why don’t you?) for unagented and unpublished children’s writers, seems to have more… Read more
UV2016 – Blog Round Up.
A superb summary of the launch event by our friends at the SCBWI British Isles webzine Words and Pictures has appeared, with lots of advice from judging panels. Feast on these selected tips at Words and Pictures and you can look for… Read more
How to Write a Winning Opening: Claire Fayers shares her tips!
A finalist in the last Undiscovered Voices, Claire Fayers now has an agent and signed contract for her novel, The Accidental Pirates: Voyage to Magical North, due to be published by Macmillan next year. She’s been blogging over over at… Read more