The Summer Party is on Thursday – May 13th – and that means the announcement of this year’s winner of the Joan Hessayon New Writers’ Scheme Award.
The Award is generously sponsored by Dr David Hessayon in memory of his wife Joan Hessayon, a long-standing member of the RNA and great supporter of the New Writers’ Scheme.
This is a high point of the year for me as the New Writers’ Scheme Organiser – although not quite as exciting as it is for the authors concerned! To be eligible for the Award novels must have been through the NWS at some stage, and somewhere in the crowd will be many of the anonymous Readers for the Scheme – there may even be three of them holding their breath as they wait the result for “their” author.
This year we have three contenders –
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Three very different novels, three new Full RNA members – congratulations good luck to all of them!
The Award is generously sponsored by Dr David Hessayon in memory of his wife Joan Hessayon, a long-standing member of the RNA and great supporter of the New Writers’ Scheme.
This is a high point of the year for me as the New Writers’ Scheme Organiser – although not quite as exciting as it is for the authors concerned! To be eligible for the Award novels must have been through the NWS at some stage, and somewhere in the crowd will be many of the anonymous Readers for the Scheme – there may even be three of them holding their breath as they wait the result for “their” author.
This year we have three contenders –
Monique DeVere - Divorce Etiquette (Wild Rose Press)
Georgia Hill – Pursued by Love (E-Scape)
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Lucy King – Bought: Damsel in Distress (Harlequin Mills & Boon)
