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| Monday, 22 October 2007 | |
![]() Andy Stanton's You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum! has been shortlisted for the children's literature prize in the Glen Dimplex Awards. The award will be announced in Dublin on November 26th. The Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2007 – Shortlists AnnouncedGlen Dimplex in association with the Irish Writers’ Centre announces today the shortlists for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards.
With a total prize fund of €45,000, the annual Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards offer unprecedented support and exposure for emerging writers in a range of genres. Awards will be made to the best first book published by an author within each of the following five categories: Fiction, Biography/Non-fiction, Children’s literature, Poetry and Irish-language (all genres).
The judges for this year’s awards are: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Maire Cruise O’Brien, Philip Cummings, David Goodhart, Kerry Hardie, Dermot Healy, Michael Longley, Christina McKenna, James Ryan and last year’s Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year, Alice Hogge. Full details of this year’s awards at: www.newwritersawards.ie
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A Witch in Winter
by Ruth Warburton