Aspiring Writers of Kids and Young Adult books…

Text Publishing have opened their Kids/YA manuscript competition again. See details here.

The competition will open May 2nd and close 3rd June, 2011.

The winner of the 2010 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing was the post-apocalyptic action novel The Bridge by Jane Higgins. Text will publish The Bridge in August 2011.

The 2009 winner was Leanne Hall, for her distinctive novel This Is Shyness.

In 2008 the inaugural prize was won by Richard Newsome’s adventure caper, The Billionaire’s Curse.

Time to polish your manuscript and put it out there!

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