The Searchlight Awards Writing for Children Best Chapter Book for 5-9 year-olds 2024, 16 November 2023 - 1 February 2024

New competition for Chapter Books:

Searchlight Awards – Exciting New Competition  Best Chapter Book for 5-8-year-olds 2024

Searchlight Writing for Children Awards is launching an exciting new competition – Best Chapter Book for 5-8-year-olds. Winners will be chosen by Katie Blagden of The Bright Agency. The top ten entries will feature in our coveted Pitch Book of winning stories, which is sent to an extensive list of literary agents and publishers who have requested it.    First prize: £350 and a one-to-one call with our agent judge.

The entry fee is £12.    Submissions from 16th November 2023 to 1st February 2024.  Find out more here: Competitions - Searchlight Writing for Children Awards    We look forward to reading your entries!    With best wishes  Kim    Kim Donovan (Founder)  Email: hello@searchlightawards.co.uk  Twitter: @WritingAwards  Bluesky: @writingawards.bsky.social  Instagram: @searchlight_awards  Threads: @searchlight_awards

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