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Congratulations to Laura Wood winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children’s Writing

Laura Wood, a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, who is writing a thesis on Victorian literature, was named the winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children’s Writing and will have her debut novel, Poppy Pym and the Pharoah’s Curse, published next year by the company behind The Hunger Games books.

The prize, created by Scholastic, the leading children's publisher, and the Italian luxury stationery supplier Montegrappa, invited unpublished authors to submit the first 5,000 words of a story designed to appeal to children aged between seven and 12.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/is-poppy-pym-the-new-harry-potter-childrens-bookseller-wins-independents-new-author-search-9808993.html

Wed 22 Oct 2014, 12:42