Angus Book Award
I’ve just heard I’ve been longlisted for the Angus Book Award for Bad Blood. That takes my tally of longlistings to five. Huzzah! I haven’t actually won an award yet but it’s encouraging news.
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Thanks to a tip from my friend Farah, I got hold of today’s Guardian to find an article about this year’s competition. Young critics (aged from 8 to 16) have been “shadowing” the award and the article...
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At the Guardian Award
I’ve been sick with a nasty cold recently so I’m late in updating my blog about the Guardian Award. The party was held in London, in the old press room. Writers and judges mingled with book world folk...
View ArticleBad Blood shortlisted for Birmingham KS3 Chills Books Award
In its fifth year, the KS3 Books Award is organised by Birmingham Schools Library Service. All secondary schools plus five special schools across the city have received parcels of the 14 titles and...
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Blogging Sisterhood Award
I have been given a Blogging Sisterhood Award by Scribble City Central. Lucy Coats writes: “Rhiannon has directed me to all sorts of wonderful places I never would have discovered without her. And she...
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Judging the Clarke award
Clarke award judges If there’s anyone left in the world who doesn’t know that I have the great honour to be a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2009, here’s a timely reminder. The judges (shown...
View ArticleJudging the Clarke Award
Yesterday, the 29th of April, was the final judging meeting and the ceremony for the Arthur C. Clarke award. The judging meeting took all afternoon and although all details are confidential I cna...
View ArticleDiverse Voices Children's Book Award
Cristy Burne is the winner of the first Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award. (story from the Times Online) The inaugural Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award is for an unpublished book...
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2010: welcome to the future
Snow in my garden Happy new year to everyone! This post is 19 days late because I began the new year with a stinking cold and I didn’t even go out and play in the snow which has been 8 inches deep or...
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Clarke award: Our revels now are ended
After two years my duties as a Science Fiction Foundation judge for the Arthur C. Clarke award have come to an end. Last Wednesday we gave China Miéville the award for The City and The City: an...
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