Christine Pillainayagam wins the 2023 Branford Boase Award for Ellie Pillai Is Brown.
Christine shares the win with her editor, Leah Thaxton, of Faber & Faber.
Submissions are now open for the Branford Boase Award 2024. Publishers are invited to make their submissions by the closing date, midnight Tuesday 28th November 2023.
The Branford Boase Award was set up in the memory of award-winning author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase. It rewards the most promising new authors and their editors, highlighting excellence in writing and publishing for children. The Award is made annually to the most promising book for children of seven and upward by a first-time novelist and celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019.
Six talented young writers aged between 8 and 18 are the winners of this year’s Henrietta Branford Writing Competition for Young People. The judges have also chosen two more stories to be awarded Highly Commended.
Entrants were asked to write a story on the theme of ‘an unexpected friend’, inspired by last year’s Branford Boase Award winner, Maisie Chan and her book, Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths. The theme clearly caught the imagination of young writers, attracting over 250 entries.
The Branford Boase Award is delivered in partnership with the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and supported by Walker Books.
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Andrea Reece
Tel: 07807 893369 | Email: branford.boase@gmail.com