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Dorothy Dunnett / HWA Unpublished Short Story Competition
The Competition is NOW OPEN. All writers, published and unpublished are invited to submit an unpublished short story of up to 3500 words set at least 35 years in the past. All genres welcome. Entry £5 (via PayPal). Read more and enter... more
HWA / Sharpe Books Unpublished Novel Award Winners
We’re delighted to announce the winner of the first HWA/Sharpe Books Unpublished Novel Award. She’s Maggie Richell Davies, whose gripping story, The Servant, came first in a very strong field. Once again the judges wish to stress how... more
HWA / Sharpe Books Unpublished Novel Award LONGLIST ANNOUNCED
HWA / Sharpe Books Unpublished Novel Award LONGLIST We were delighted at the number of excellent manuscripts we received, though the high quality of the entries made the selection of a longlist extremely challenging! If the longlist were to... moreauthor showcase
Vanessa de Haan
Vanessa de Haan is a writer, as well as a freelance journalist, editor and proofreader. In 2005 she left an in-house job at The Spectator magazine in London and moved to Devon to concentrate on her own writing. She took the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and was a columnist on the Western Morning News for almost three years (writing under the name Zoë Kenyon). Her first novel - The Restless Sea - is about the... more
Alec Marsh
Alec Marsh is the author of Rule Britannia, a light-hearted historical adventure set against the backdrop of the Abdication Crisis in 1936. It is the first in a series featuring protagonists Drabble and Harris, and was published in October 2019 by Headline Accent. The second novel in the Drabble and Harris series – set in British India in 1937 – is due for release in October 2020. Marsh was born in Essex in 1975 and studied history at... more
Catherine Hokin
Catherine Hokin is a Glasgow-based author, writing both long and short fiction. Her second novel, The Fortunate Ones, will be published by Bookouture on 20th January 2020. This is a love story set during and in the aftermath of the Second World War in Berlin and Buenos Aires. Felix and Hannah meet unexpectedly in a Berlin dance hall. They are instantly smitten and immediately separated. Felix goes searching for the beautiful girl in blue but... more
Tracey Warr
Tracey Warr’s historical novels are set in early medieval Europe. Her first novel Almodis was shortlisted for the Impress Prize and the Rome Film Festival Book Initiative, and received a Santander Research Award. It is based on the life of Almodis de La Marche, countess of Toulouse and Barcelona, who was described by William of Malmesbury as being ‘afflicted with a Godless female itch’. Her second novel, The Viking Hostage, topped the... more
