We are delighted to announce the Shortlist for the Bath Children’s Novel Award 2022🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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International prizes for emerging novelists. Submissions are open Dec thru May for adult novels and Jun thru Nov for children's books.
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The Bath Novel Award is an international prize for emerging novelists (adult & YA fiction)
Judge: @Kate7Barker
Prize: £3,000
C/date: 31 May #BNA2023
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Happy Publication Day, ! It's been a joy working on this unusual, heartfelt, gem of a novel with you. Congratulations on creating such a beautiful piece of art #books #fiction #reading #historicalfiction #novel
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Gave me goose bumps when I first read it. Archery, physics, the strangest of meetings - truly original and uplifting. Happy publication day #timeslip #HistoricalFiction #debut #TheArrowGarden
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Publication day for the poised and haunting time slip that is THE ARROW GARDEN. Have a wonderful day @AndrewJKing5 twitter.com/BathNovelAward…2
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🎉 Huge CONGRATULATIONS to all the shortlisted authors. Such a high standard of entries. Judging a winner is going to be very difficult! 💖
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We are delighted to announce the Shortlist for the Bath Children’s Novel Award 2022
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Pandora goes transatlantic AND the storms into the Sunday Times PB Bestseller list. Huge congratulations to BNA2020 listee !
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It’s been a good day for PANDORA - US publication, #20 on Sunday Times PB Bestseller list & a lovely @PLR_UK statement that tells me readers checked my debut out over 850 times. THANK YOU so much to each and every one of you who has supported my novel across various formats! 
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Submissions call
The Bath Novel Award is an international prize for emerging novelists (adult & YA fiction)
Judge:
Prize: £3,000
C/date: 31 May #BNA2023
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🏹📚Win our winning debut!
It's publication day for Bath Novel Award 2020 winning THE ARROW GARDEN by and we have a copy of this mesmerising timeslip debut to give away.
Prize draw open worldwide until 31st Jan, entry here🔻
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Delighted and honoured to say that I'm going to be judging this year's Bath Novel Award. Please send them lots of brilliant novels!
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We are thrilled to announce @Kate7Barker is judging The Bath Novel Award 2023. Check out her Judge's Q&A with lots of great subtips here
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📣We are thrilled to announce is judging The Bath Novel Award 2023. Check out her Judge's Q&A with lots of great subtips here👇🏽
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We're hiring! Cornerstones is looking for a brilliant new Editorial Assistant to join the team (full-time remote position, £26k p/a, apply by 11 Jan). More info here: cornerstones.co.uk/blog/cornersto
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We are delighted to announce 2022's longlist #BNAkids
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Congratulations everyone on the longlist - so exciting! And, as always, yay to everyone who entered. It takes an incredible amount of perseverance and courage to write a novel, and an equal amount to get it out there. Keep being brave!
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We are delighted to announce 2022's longlist #BNAkids
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That's all of the YES vote highlights and golden votes for #BNAkids 2022.
We're away for a final vount up of the votes, back tomorrow at 9am GMT with the longlist announcement.
Good luck to all!
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Starting a thread of 40 comments from 2022's #BNAkids YES votes. They are for opening extracts (up to 5k words) plus synopses and are a mix of comments from Junior Judges and adult readers. Look out for seven golden votes at the end! twitter.com/BathNovelAward…
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#BNAkids Playful and clever PB about playing with words. GOLDEN YES 40/40
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#BNAkids This is beautiful. There is a gentle power to the portrayal of his loss. GOLDEN YES 39/40
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#BNAkids Spare and pacy writing with vivid, original worldbuilding. Fresh, imaginative and exciting. GOLDEN YES 38/40
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#BNAkids Sri Lankan / Scottish girl discovers an world of tiny people who live in shells and must find a way to save their endangered beach. Irresistable extract full of kindness, empowerment and heart. GOLDEN YES 37/40
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#BNAkids This story takes flight on a wintry moonlit night with gripping goings on including a strange visitor, a magical bird and a curious note. GOLDEN YES 36/40
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#BNAkids Rip-roaring story about a young Japanese boy propelled into a perilous mission after saving a miniature time-travelling ninja. GOLDEN YES 35/40
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#BNAkids Newly undead boy accidentally offends a werewolf and breaks the pact that keeps the peace between all the town's supernaturals in this madcap paranormal romp. GOLDEN YES 34/40
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#BNAkids Quirky tale about collecting from nature and helping others through the magic of our natural world. YES 33/40
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#BNAkids Ornithologist's children on a magic-filled quest in the footsteps of Darwin. Already rooting for these kids. YES 32/40
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#BNAkids Beautiful, clever and witty. A wow moment. YES 31/40
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#BNAkids Brilliantly mysterious and sinister, I found this opening absolutely compelling. Great concept, clear synopsis and very readable style. YES 30/40
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#BNAkids The tender dialogue around the scattering of ashes had me on the edge of tears. YES 29/40
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#BNAkids Warm and thoughtful MC with a distracted dad over-compensating for the hole in his life left by the death of his wife YES 28/40
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#BNAkids C19th orphan is bequeathed a magic map which leads him to NYC and a young Houdini YES 27/40
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#BNAkids Dark yet heart-warming and imaginative MG about a bereaved girl who goes to live with her much older sister who works night shifts as a nurse. YES 26/40
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#BNAkids When her sailor mum doesn't come home a girl takes a boat out in the middle of a storm and encounters a ghostly light above the waves. YES 25/40
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#BNAkids Teenage aspiring healer must clear her name after being blamed for spreading illness in a bad winter. YES 24/40
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#BNAkids When her library-turned-orphanage is set on fire a 13yo girl must run a bag of rare books to an elderly scientist in the heart of the forest. YES 23/40
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#BNAkids Absolutely brilliantly written. Grabs you from the get go. YES 22/40
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#BNAkids Wonderfully imaginative fantasy starring a likeable and plucky 12 year old with a gift so rare it would be - in Grandfather's words - a travesty not to cherish it. Ghibli meets Dahl with a clear goal and high stakes. YES 21/40
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#BNAkids Subversive fun in fairyland. Lots of laughs plus a satisfying character arc. YES 20/40
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#BNAkids Loved this one. Strong opening, deftly sketched characters in an authentic-feeling historical setting with a magical dimension. Beautifully written too, making for an effortless read. YES 19/40
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#BNAkids Vividly imagined cli-fi YA set in a Mexican cloud forest and inspired by a descent-to-the-underworld Mayan myth. YES 18/40
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#BNAkids Dark contemporary YA in free verse about a teen without access to the outside world YES 17/40
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