Longlist Announcement
Bradford Literature Festival, in conjunction with Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, is delighted to announce the longlist of candidates for the Yorkshire Emerging Writers (YEW): Mentoring Programme.
A trailblazing new mentoring programme specifically for unagented writers in Yorkshire from underrepresented backgrounds, YEW was created to discover new home-grown talent and are champion local writers from Yorkshire.
In its first year, the mentoring programme received many excellent submissions that between them offered a huge variety of local writing talent. Selecting the longlist was certainly no easy decision.
We are delighted to announce our amazing long-listed candidates:
Elizabeth Catherine for ‘Forgotten Picture Show’
Twitter/X: @lazybookworm1
Karen Naylor for ‘The Pallbearer’
Website: karennaylor.blogspot.com
Twitter/X: @KarenNaylor2
Lauren Dixon-Smith for ‘The Shrouding’
Twitter/X: @dixsmizzle
Liz Champion for ‘Tramlines’
Website: lizchampion.substack.com
Facebook: Liz Champion Author
Twitter/X: @LizChamps
Maurice Carlin for ‘In a Quare Country’
Twitter/X: @a_quare_fella
Ruksana Abdul-Majid for ‘Parwa’
Nicola Fieldsend for ‘The Bachelor of Beaumont’
Twitter/X: @NFieldsend
Bradford Literature Festival and Simon & Schuster UK Ltd would like to thank everyone who took the time to apply.
“It was such an honour to read the submissions for our Yorkshire Emerging Writers mentoring scheme. We were blown away by both the quality of the writing and the unique stories we read, making it an incredibly difficult decision to pick our longlist, so thank you to all the authors who applied.” Sara-Jade Virtue, Brand Development Director, Fiction for Simon & Schuster UK
“It was wonderful to have so many applications to the programme. For those not on the longlist we wish you all the very best with your future writing careers. We hope to see a lot more of you and look forward to following your progress.” Isla Rosser-Owen, Senior Creative Producer at Bradford Literature Festival.
The final list of mentees will be announced on Monday 8 January 2024.
