Writing Advice with Jules Lampshire

Monday, March 4, 2019

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...

Damhnait Monaghan shortlisted for Caledonia

Thursday, February 14, 2019

BPA client, Damhnait Monaghan is shortlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award. We’re keeping our fingers crossed!

Advice to writers from 2018 First Novel Award judge Fiona Mitchell

Thursday, February 22, 2018

We asked author Fiona Mitchell, author of The Maids Room to give some tips to writers entering the 2018 competition: What will you be looking for in the competition line up? I’d love to see a brilliant character-led novel with a dynamic, original voice. I adore...

First Novel Award 2018

Monday, February 19, 2018

The Award is open to unrepresented and unpublished authors for a novel in any adult fiction genre Following on from the success of our inaugural First Novel Award in 2017, we are asking for submissions for the 2018 Award. Winner: £1,000 + introduction to literary...

Shortlist Bluepencilagency First Novel Prize 2017

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Our judges, literary agent Eve White and best selling author Saskia Sarginson have shortlisted six great stories from our longlist of 20. Congratulations to the authors of the following: Super Tech White Stock The Wrong Guy The Accidental Time Traveller Hannah...