Q&A with First Novel Award Judges – Zoom, 22 April

Q&A with First Novel Award Judges – Zoom, 22 April

Q&A with our 2026 First Novel Award Judges – Zoom Our judges for the First Novel Award answer your questions, live! Get the inside track on submitting to agents. When it comes to agent submissions, it’s essential to understand the industry. Olivia Maidment,...
Ask an Agent: Maddalena Cavaciuti from David Higham Associates

Ask an Agent: Maddalena Cavaciuti from David Higham Associates

Maddalena Cavaciuti joined David Higham Associates in 2017 as Junior Agent Assistant to Lizzy Kremer, now Managing Director. After two years of working with Lizzy on her author list, Maddalena became an Assistant Agent and began to take on her own clients. She was...
Ask an Agent: Olivia Maidment from Madeleine Milburn

Ask an Agent: Olivia Maidment from Madeleine Milburn

Olivia Maidment joined the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency in 2020. Previously, she worked with award-winning authors and global literary brands during her time at The Blair Partnership and United Agents. As well as representing a list of literary, upmarket and book...
Writing Advice with Mandy Robotham

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

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...