Awards: June 2004 Archives

Poetry Prize

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achuka
on June 17, 2004 7:35 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The winner of the CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) Poetry Award for 2004 is:

All the Best - Selected Poems
by Roger McGough (Puffin)

The presentation was made yeaterday at the Royal Festival Hall by Estelle Morris, MP, Minister for the Arts.

The runner-up was
Overheard on a Saltmarsh edited by Carol Ann Duffy
(Macmillan Young Picador)

The CLPE Poetry Award was set up in 2002 and was awarded for the first time in 2003. The award aims to honour excellence in poetry written for children. It is presented annually in June for a book of poetry published in the previous year. This year's judges were Morag Styles and Michael Rosen, with Margaret Meek Spencer as chair.

Good Coverage

By
achuka
on June 14, 2004 9:33 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Enjoyment

Good coverage in The Independent for Michael Morpurgo's success at the Red House Children's Book Awards.

Newsround Coverage

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achuka
on June 13, 2004 7:42 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

CBBC Newsround | UK | Private Peaceful wins top award

Newsround's online report from yesterday's Red House Children's Book Awards...

Red House Children's Book Award Winners

By
achuka
on June 12, 2004 8:51 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The Winners!

The section winners of this year's Red House Children's Book Awards (wholly voted for by children) were:
Billy's Bucket by Kes Gray & Garry Parsons
The Mum Hunt by Gwyneth Rees
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

with 'Children's Laureate' Michael Morpurgo voted the outright winner.

See the ACHUKA Picture Gallery...

Michael Morpurgo was unable to attend the presentation. Two of his grand-daughters accepted the award, the older one speaking briefly on 'Michael's behalf with remarkably relaxed self-assurance.

The children's laureate was one of several absent nominees who spoke via pre-recorded video clip.

Booktrust Teenage Shortlist

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achuka
on June 9, 2004 6:52 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Booktrust teenage prize shortlist

The 2004 Booktrust Teenage Prize shortlist has been announced:

The Dark Beneath by Alan Gibbons (Orion)

Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy (Scholastic)

Deep Secret by Berlie Doherty (Puffin)

Rani and Sukh by Bali Rai (Corgi)

Boy Kills Man by Matt Whyman (Hodder)

Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde (Egmont)

The Opposite of Chocolate by Julie Bertagna (Macmillan)

Unique by Alison Allen-Gray (Oxford University Press)


New Scottish Prize

By
achuka
on June 6, 2004 8:58 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The Scottish publisher, Floris, will announce tomorrow (Monday) a new prize for writing for children, to be launched at this year's Edinburgh Book Festrival. The first Kelpies Prize will be awarded in August 2005. The winner will receive ?2000 and their book will be published in Floris Books' Contemporary Kelpies series of Scottish fiction for children aged 9 - 12.

Christian Macleam, Floris MD, says: "In recent years, we've seen Scottish fiction for adults become increasingly recognised and commercially successful. Scottish children deserve to be able to read the childhood equivalents of Christopher Mrookmyre, Ian Rankin, Louise Welsh and Irvine Welsh - that is, high-qulaity, contmeporary Scottish fiction across many genres. The Kelpies Prize will facilitate that."

The prize is open to authors who do not live in Scotland, but their work should be set wholly or mainly in contemporary Scotland, and be suitable for both boys and girls. The work should not have been previously published, although the author may have been. Manuscripts (40,000 - 60,000 words) must be submitted by Febraury 28th 2005. A shortlist will be announced the following July. A judging panel will be appointed annually.

Short Story winner

By
achuka
on June 2, 2004 8:15 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Academic's tale wins Scotsman short story award

'I've written the first draft of what I think is a young adult novel about punk, bigotry and high-school football in 1970s Glasgow. It's not surrealistic at all. Well, not too much. It'll get weirder, I'm sure," says the Scottish-born, US dwelling winner of The Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award, with ?7500 prize.

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