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Completely overjoyed to finally let the cat out of the bag. I won! Wahoo. Big congratulations to everyone who entered/shortlistees and thanks to the readers, Rachel Petty The Blair Partnership and Kim and the Searchlight Writing for Children Awards team for all their hard work and support. Happy Friday!

I’m thrilled to win Searchlight Writing for Children Awards’ Best Picture Book Text 2024! Huge thanks to Kim Donovan for organising, Lorna Hemingway for judging, and all the amazing readers for this competition. Congratulations to all the other entrants for putting their fantastic stories out there! 🙌🏻

Heartfelt thanks to the Searchlight team: To Alex Wood our expert IT partner, to our truly amazing readers - you are the best! - and to our brilliant guest judges Lorna Hemingway of Bell Lomax Moreton and Rachel Petty of The Blair Partnership . I couldn’t run the competitions without you.❤️ Kim.

I can't believe I missed this!! I'm totally over the moon to be shortlisted for this award! Huge congratulations to Gavin and Eva and the other shortlistees ❤️ #searchlightwriting #amwriting

By our fabulous listee and now Searchlight reader Hazel Gardner ! Huge congratulations, Hazel. 🥳

AGENT NEWS! Huge congratulations to the winner of Searchlight’s Best Picture Book Text 2024 competition Tom Lancaster . ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ #WritingCommunity #searchlightawards #Kidlit

An incredible group of warm, welcoming, amazing writers, I can't recommend highly enough 💛

BOOK NEWS - We’re seeing Olivia Wakeford’s book EVERYWHERE! 🥳 Back in 2021 My Dog was one of our competition entries and our readers fell in love with it. ❤️Since then Olivia’s joined our reading team and she’s brilliant at selecting stories, too. Massive congrats, Olivia Wakeford .

The moment we sent out our Agent/Publisher Pitch Book of Winning Stories Gavin Crippin started getting interest. ‘Such a great voice’ was the general opinion. Things moved at lightning speed and we’re delighted to say that Gavin has now accepted representation. Fantastic news!

Our Winners’ Gallery for Best Novel Opening and Best Picture Book Text 2024 is now live! See who won, read short extracts of the stories… Congratulations to all! 👏👏👏 searchlightawards.co.uk/winners-galler…

I'm honored to be shortlisted. Thanks for the opportunity Searchlight Writing for Children Awards I've had two agents reached out to me asking for the full manuscript.

I'm so thankful to be on this list; I felt stuck in a rut so this has given me a massive lift. Congratulations to the winner, Tom, runner up, Jane, and my fellow shortlistees. And to those feeling fed up, never give up! You never know what's around the corner!

Huge congrats to Searchlight listee SJ Poyton . What fantastic news! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

BOOK NEWS! Absolutely delighted for our 2021 shortlistee Harriet Howe . Huge congrats, Harriet. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #WritingCommunity #searchlightawards

Very proud of our Searchlight listee, Amanda Addison . 👏

BOOK NEWS. This story was shortlisted for our best picture book text competition in 2022 and now it’s published! Delighted for Nadine Holland . 🥳

AGENT NEWS. Not one but two offers of representation for our fabulous Best Novel Opening 2024 shortlistee Mayra Calvani . Wow! Mayra has now signed with the equally fabulous Kesia Lupo of Maass Agency . What a perfect match! Huge congrats, Mayra.

BOOK NEWS! Jax King ✍️📕 and Sammie teamed up for our Best Illustrated Picture Book 2023 competition. Now their shortlisted book is published! Wow! 🥳 Couldn’t be more proud of our author/illustrator pair. ❤️ #writingcommunity #picturebook #searchlightawards

Shortlisted for Searchlight’s Best Novel Opening 2024 competition and now represented by Kesia Lupo . Calling all publishers… #WritingCommunity