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News » WriteWords member Sally Nicholls wins £20k prize!

WriteWords member Sally Nicholls wins £20k prize!



  Posted on 13/11/2008

The £20,000 Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year Award has been won by WW member Sally Nicholls for Ways To Live Forever (Scholastic).

The category winners (each £5,000) were:
(Fiction) Allan Bush, Last Bird Singing (Seren)
(Biograph/Non-fiction) Nia Wyn Blue Sky (Seren)
(Children's) Sally Nicholls Ways to Live Forever (Scholastic)
(Poetry) Will Stone Glaciation (Salt)
(Irish language) Simon O Faolain Anam Mhadra (Coisceim)

The awards are run by the Irish Writers' Centre and Glen Dimplex, the electrical heating business.




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Posted by :  rogernmorris at 22:41 on 13 November 2008
That's fantastic! Well done Sally! Many many congratulations.
Posted by :  optimist at 23:13 on 13 November 2008
Fabulous news, Sally! Congratulations!
Posted by :  Elbowsnitch at 07:48 on 14 November 2008
Brilliant - well done, Sally!

Frances
Posted by :  KatieMcCullough at 13:25 on 14 November 2008
Absolutely fantastic news, yay for writers! An inspiration indeed.
Posted by :  tiger_bright at 13:58 on 14 November 2008
Absolutely fantastic news! Well done, Sally.
Posted by :  hopper2607 at 19:11 on 14 November 2008
Well done!
That's a tidy little sum as well.

Andy
Posted by :  Beanie Baby at 13:28 on 06 February 2009
Fantastic news! Many congratulations, I am so pleased for you!
Beanie

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