Young Yorkshire Author Update

The submission process for Yorkshire’s Next Great Young Author is now closed. All submissions are currently being read. We plan to announce the shortlist in late July and a winner will be announced in late September. Many thanks to all those who have entered, it looks likely to be a very interesting reading period. Route [...]

Young Yorkshire Author Guidelines Open

Submission guidelines for our Young Yorkshire Author opening have been published. ‘As the major London publishing houses close their doors and eyes to unsolicited manuscripts this opening provides a rare opportunity for young unpublished novelists to have their work actually read and considered for publication. I hope it will become an annual event and that [...]

Young Yorkshire Author Opportunity

Route have been supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire to offer a golden publishing opportunity for a young Yorkshire based author, aged 18-30. Full details of this opportunity, including submission criteria and deadlines will be announced in due course, but for now we just wanted to make the tip-off that it is happening to give [...]

A Few Good Books Stack

If you sent in a book proposal for A Few Good Books, then it will be in this photo somehwere.

Reading Complete

All stories submitted for The Route Book at Bedtime and Contemporary Short Stories have now been read. We received 340 submissions, from which we longlisted 40 stories, which is now down to a shortlist of 20. Several themes emerged from the reading…

Short Story Stack

Photo of the manuscript submissions pile for Route 22.