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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 07/07/2026

🎉It's USA publication day for EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT by Ben Reeves and to celebrate we're having a transatlantic book giveaway. Free prize draw open in the US & UK until 31 July. 'This book will change your life' - Joanna Cannon bathnovelaward.co.uk/book-giveawa...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 01/06/2026

🔏And that's a wrap for the Bath Novel Award 2026 entries! Thank you to all entrants — we can't wait to discover this year's longlist, TBA Tuesday 30 June. Good luck everyone!

The Bath Novel Award 2026. Thank you to all entrants. Submissions are now closed. Longlist 30 June 2026.

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 18/05/2026

Could 2026 be YOUR year? A stellar list of Bath Novel Award laureates and listees have gone on to find agents and publishing success. You next? Open to emerging writers everywhere, with a £5k prize and lit agent Amanda Harris judging. Closes 31 May #booksky bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-nov...

The Bath Novel Award 2026: Could this be YOUR year? Photos of 12 winning authors. Deadline 31 May bathnovelaward.co.uk

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 23/04/2026

🎉Happy publication day to BCNA Longlist Prize-winner Louise Austin, whose hilarious debut ALEX ABBOTT IS [UN]DEAD is out today! Wednesday meets Loki, it's the fang-tastically funny diary of a reluctant vampire aged 11½ and iIllustrated throughout by Katie Kear www.amazon.co.uk/Alex-Abbott-...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 17/04/2026

🗡️🎉THE LOST DETECTIVE by @elspethlatimer.bsky.social is up for the CWA ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger 2026! An earlier draft of this standout crime debut shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2023 and you can read more about Elspeth's path-to-publication at: bathnovelaward.co.uk/debut-novel-...

The CWA Daggers Longlist: The Lost Detective by Elspeth Latimer

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 09/04/2026

🏯Happy UK Paperback Publication Day to BCNA shortlistee William Yamaguchi Dobson! Kamizen: Fortress of Lost Memories (Scholastic) is an enchanting fantasy adventure for 9-12s and William shares the moving story behind his debut, plus his path to publication at: bathnovelaward.co.uk/debut-author...

"I have one guiding principle: make it fun" William Yamaguchi Dobson, author of Kamizen: Fortress of Lost Memories (Scholastic April 2026)

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 09/04/2026

Bath Children’s Novel Award Winner Melanie Whitmarsh describes the moment she found out, shares her writing journey, and explains how the Junior Judges are shaping her final edits. bathnovelaward.co.uk/interview-me...

Bath Children's Novel Award 2025 Winner Melanie Whitmarsh

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 17/12/2025

🎉Huge congratulations to BCNA18 winner Cassie Powney on the acquisition of 23 IVY LANE. It's an "epic love story that spans decades and continents, connected by postcards" and will publish with Headline in February 2027. Full story at: www.thebookseller.com/rights/headl...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 01/12/2025

It's a wrap for #BathChildrensNovelAward 2025! Thank you to all entrants. We can't wait to read your work and discover this year's longlist. Longlist news emails will go out 18 December. Good luck everyone!

Thank you to all entrants. Entries for the Bath Children's Novel Award 2025 are not closed for judging. Longlist: 18 Dec 2025.

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 27/10/2025

💫Submissions call for the Bath Children's Novel Award 2025! £5,000 prize, open to emerging writers of MG, YA, CB and PBT. Literary agent Clare Wallace is judging from a shortlist chosen by Junior Judges aged 7-17 years. Closing date 30 Nov, full details at: bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-no...

The Bath Children's Novel Award 2025 (background picture of Pulteney Weir, Bath, England). 5,000 GBP prize for emerging children's writers. Closing date: 30 November.

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 24/09/2025

🎉We're delighted to share the winner and listees for the Bath Novel Award 2025. Our heartfelt thanks to Laura Williams for judging - and huge congratulations to winning author Parker Barrington and all listees. Full announcement at: bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-nov...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 17/07/2025

🎉Happy SCARLETT BUCKLING AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING PICTURES publication day to @marioambrosi.bsky.social - out today with @tinytreebooks.bsky.social! 12yo Scarlett Buckling loves a detective story, but when her beloved Gran goes missing in the night, she faces a real-life case like no other...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 29/06/2025

We're away now to count the BNA2025 votes. Good luck to all for tomorrow's news!

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 29/06/2025

The Bath Children's Novel Award 2025 is now open for submissions. This is our £5,000 prize for emerging / unagented children's authors of PBT CB MG and YA. Clare Wallace of Darley Anderson is judging and entries are invited until 30th Nov at: bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-no...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 10/06/2025

💫 We're delighted to welcome CLARE WALLACE of Darley Anderson Children's as judge for 2025's £5,000 Bath Childrens Novel Award 🎈The award is open to unagented emerging children's and YA writers worldwide, with a closing date of November 30th. bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-no...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 01/06/2025

🏁And that’s a wrap for Bath Novel Award 2025 entries. Thank you to all entrants, and good luck for the longlist announcement on June 30th!

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 31/05/2025

📣FINAL SUBMISSIONS CALL✨ The Bath Novel Award 2025 is an international £5,000 prize for A & YA novels. Judge: Literary agent Laura Williams Deadline: 23:59 BST, Sat 31st May. Open to unagented emerging authors worldwide at👇 bathnovelaward.co.uk

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 29/05/2025

🥳 A Place of A Thousand Wishes is out today! This magical and BCNA-listed mystery from @sarahmerrett1.bsky.social is the story of Mason, a C19th boy who makes the world’s best ice cream and the sinister stranger who wants to destroy his business. On sale now at: www.amazon.co.uk/Place-Thousa...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 23/05/2025

💫Just one week left to enter 2025's Bath Novel Award! 📅 Deadline: Sat 31 May 🏆 £5,000 prize for emerging A/YA writers 😎 Lit agent Laura Williams judging 📖 Longlist prize worth £1,980 c/o @profwriting.bsky.social & Cornerstones Literary 📝Feedback for all listees bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-nov...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 07/05/2025

🎊 Newly agented congratulations to Bath Children’s Novel Award winner Rachel Darwin on accepting representation with Millie Van Grut at RCW Literary Agency

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 03/05/2025

✒️This year's £5,000 Bath Novel Award invites entries from emerging unagented writers everywhere. Laura Williams of Greene & Heaton Literary Agency is judging and initial subs are your opening 5k words plus one page synopsis. C/date 31 May with full details at bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-nov...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 01/05/2025

🎉🐉Happy Dragonborn publication day! Dragonborn is the electric new fantasy series by Bath Children's Novel Award winner Struan Murray. It's for fans of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief and Impossible Creatures and perfect for readers aged 9-12. uk.bookshop.org/contributors...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 28/04/2025

SUBMISSIONS CALL✨ The Bath Novel Award 2025 is a £5,000 prize for A & YA novels and open until 31 May. The Bath Children's Novel Award 2025 is a £5,000 prize for MG, YA, CB and PBT and open until 30 Nov. Both prizes are open to unagented emerging authors worldwide at👇 bathnovelaward.co.uk

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 27/04/2025

📖Literary agent and 2025 judge Laura Williams explains why potential is more important than perfection, and what she looks for in the opening pages of novel submissions. bathnovelaward.co.uk/bath-novel-a...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 27/04/2025

📚PRIZE GIVEAWAY! To celebrate the publication of The Secret Collector, @abigailj.bsky.social's heart-warming BNA-listed debut, we have a copy to give away by prize draw. Head to bathnovelaward.co.uk/win-a-copy-o... and enter your name and email for the chance to win. UK only, draw closes April 30th.

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 24/04/2025

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 21/04/2025

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 10/04/2025

🎉Happy publication day to @abigailj.bsky.social! The Secret Collector is the heartwarming and uplifting story of an elderly eccentric collector and a troubled teen, and Abigail shares her path-to-publication story here👇 bathnovelaward.co.uk/2025/03/14/i...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 08/04/2025

📣2025's Bath Novel Awards are open for entries! The £5,000 Bath Novel Award and £5,000 Bath Children's Novel Award are for emerging unagented writers of any nationality or residency and you can find all the info at www.bathnovelaward.co.uk

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 08/04/2025

🎉BCNA shortlisted @sharon54.bsky.social tells us about signing with @agentalicewilliams.bsky.social and writing NINE ROOMS, the twisty and thrilling YA that had our Junior Judging team on the edge of their seats. 👉https://bathnovelaward.co.uk/love-your-novel-so-judges-will-too/

Newly agented congratulations to Bath Children's Novel Award shortlistee Sharon Boyle, now represented by Alice Williams Literary.

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 26/03/2025

SUBMISSIONS CALL✨ The Bath Novel Award 2025 is a £5,000 prize for A & YA novels and is open until 31 May. The Bath Children's Novel Award 2025 is a £5,000 prize for MG, YA, CB and PBT and is open until 30 Nov. Both prizes are open to unagented emerging authors worldwide at👇 bathnovelaward.co.uk

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 24/03/2025

🎉Debut book deal congratulations to #BathChildrensNovelAward 2023 shortlistee A. A. Wilson for NIFLHEIM, acquired by @dkbooks.bsky.social from @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social for UK / US publication in 2026. ‘Encompassing grief, love, monsters and the end of childhood, there is murder in the air...'

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 23/03/2025

📖In our latest literary agent Q&A, 2025 judge Laura Williams explains why potential is more important than perfection, plus what she will be looking for in the opening 5,000 words and synopsis of novel submissions. bathnovelaward.co.uk/bath-novel-a...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 21/03/2025

Win £5,000 for your manuscript with the Bath Novel Award 2025! Watched by agents and editors, our prize has been the stepping stone in many writers' early careers, including Abi Daré, Kim Sherwood and Chris Whitaker. Entries are open worldwide and we can't wait to soak up your words so come on in!

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 16/03/2025

👋The 2025 Bath Novel Award and Bath Children's Novel Award are open for entries. Each award has a £5,000 winner's prize, feedback for all listees and sponsored places for writers on a low income. Step over to www.bathnovelaward.co.uk for all the info #amwriting #amquerying #booksky #writingcommunity

The Bath Novel Awards, The next step for your manuscript. The Bath Novel Award 2025 £5,000 prize closes 31 May. The Bath Children's Novel Award 2025 £5,000 prize closes 30 Nov.

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 07/03/2025

🎉We could not be happier to share this news! Huge congratulations to Craig Pearson Fender on signing with Enrichetta Frezzato at Curtis Brown for his winning children's fantasy, PANJANDRUM. bathnovelaward.co.uk/interview-cr...

Congratulations to Bath Children's Novel Award winner Craig Pearson Fender on accepting representation with Enrichetta Frezzato at Curtis Brown

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 07/03/2025

🎊All the congratulations to BNA 2015 listee Chris Whitaker on shortlisting for the British Book Awards with ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK. Go Patch and Saint! 🏴‍☠️

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 04/03/2025

📣Call for manuscripts by unagented emerging writers The Bath Novel Award 2025 is a £5,000 prize for adult / YA manuscripts. C/date 31 May. The Bath Children's Novel Award 2025 is a £5,000 prize for children's novels, YA, chapter books and picture book texts. C/date 30 Nov. bathnovelaward.co.uk

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 25/02/2025

💛We are thrilled to announce the Bath Children’s Novel Award 2024 goes to CRAIG PEARSON FENDER for PANJANDRUM. Read the full #BCNA24 announcement including opening extracts of the shortlisted books and our esteemed judge’s comments at: bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-chi...

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 25/02/2025

🎊Huge congratulations to this year’s shortlistees #BCNA24 SHARON BOYLE for NINE ROOMS CRAIG PEARSON FENDER for PANJANDRUM R A HUDSON for SPOOKY THE SPRITE AND THE GREAT HULLABALLOO MIRANDA NUGENT for CELERY’S GIANT #BCNA24

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 25/02/2025

🫶Our heartfelt thanks to our Junior Judges for choosing the shortlisted full manuscripts, and to literary agent Enrichetta Frezzato for judging the winning book. #BCNA24

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 25/02/2025

👏Special congratulations to longlistee CHARLOTTE GIBBONS who is awarded the CORNERSTONES / PWA Longlist Prize for TO THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD #BCNA24 @profwriting.bsky.social

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 25/02/2025

✨Congratulations to our 21 longlistees, whose exceptional extracts shone out in our most competitive year to date #BCNA24

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 25/02/2025

🎉It’s time to announce the Bath Children’s Novel Award 2024 winner and listees! #BCNA24

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 06/02/2025

🎉Wishing BNA 2022 listee @rachloudriscoll.bsky.social the very happiest of debut publication days. NEPHTHYS is the spellbinding novel of a forgotten daughter and a forgotten goddess and out today with Vintage Books!

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The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk · 06/02/2025

📣The Bath Novel Award 2025 is now open for submissions! Open to emerging writers everywhere, with literary agent Laura Williams judging and a £5,000 prize, step over here for all the info👉 bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-nov...

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