Writing Advice with Mandy Robotham
Mandy Robotham is the author of “Breeder”, the story that was awarded the runner-up prize in the BPA First Novel Award Competition 2018. After completing a masters in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University, Mandy has won several prizes for her short...
Writing Advice with Jules Lampshire
Jules Lampshire is the winner of the Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award 2018 for her novel My Poor Deluded Girl which she wrote while attending the six month Faber Academy Writing a Novel programme in 2017. Our judges praised her work as being “one of those...
Beth Underdown’s advice for writers entering our First Novel Award
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Beth Underdown, our author judge and lecturer in creative writing at Manchester University gives writers some tips to get their entries noticed. What will you be looking for in the competition line up? Somebody who really wants to...
Nelle Andrew’s writers’ tips for the First Novel Award
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]We spoke to Nelle Andrews about what she’s looking for in this year’s BPA first novel award and this is what she had to say… When reading submissions, what is it that makes you want to read on?...