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The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award 2011

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Closing date: 
25 February 2011
Entry: 
The Prize will be awarded to the best manuscript for 8 to 12-year-olds that celebrates diversity in the widest possible sense. Eligibility: writers of 16 or over who have not previously published a novel for children.
Prize: 
£1,500 plus the option for Janetta Otter-Barry at Frances Lincoln Children’s Books to publish the novel

The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award 2011

Deadline: 25 February 2011

Prize: £1,500 plus the option for Janetta Otter-Barry at Frances Lincoln Children’s Books to publish the novel.

The Prize will be awarded to the best manuscript for 8 to 12-year-olds that celebrates diversity in the widest possible sense.

Eligibility: writers of 16 or over who have not previously published a novel for children.

Frances Lincoln Limited, the award–winning publisher, and Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books, are delighted with the success to date of the Diverse Voices Award, set up in memory of Frances Lincoln (1945 - 2001) to encourage and promote diversity in children's fiction.

The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award is for a manuscript that celebrates cultural diversity in the widest possible sense, either in terms of its story or in terms of the ethnic and cultural origins of its author.

The prize of £1,500, plus the option for Frances Lincoln Children’s Books to publish the novel, will be awarded to the best work of unpublished fiction for 8–to-12-year-olds by a writer, aged 16 years or over, who has not previously published a novel for children. The writer may have contributed to an anthology of prose or poetry.  The work must be written in English and it must be a minimum of 15,000 words and a maximum of 35,000 words.

>p>For full information about the award and to download an entry form go to http://www.sevenstories.org.uk/learning/projects/the-frances-lincoln-diverse-voices-award-2011-p327 or email helena@sevenstories.org.uk.

Closing date: 
25 February 2011
Entry: 
The Prize will be awarded to the best manuscript for 8 to 12-year-olds that celebrates diversity in the widest possible sense. Eligibility: writers of 16 or over who have not previously published a novel for children.
Prize: 
£1,500 plus the option for Janetta Otter-Barry at Frances Lincoln Children’s Books to publish the novel