Introducing our next great novelist… Sophie Coulombeau

27-year-old wins the inaugural Route Young Author Award Route are delighted to announce that Sophie Coulombeau is the winner of the 2011 Route Author Competition. Her novel provisionally titled Rites beat off strong competition from a group of exceptionally talented authors under the age of 30 to win a publishing contract. The novel will be [...]

Route Young Author Shortlist

We are pleased to announce the shortlist for the Route Young Author competition. Controller – Sally Ashton Rites – Sophie Coulombeau Frances Andrews – Caroline Hargreaves Mazungu – Matthew T Potter Broken Things – Amy Robson The shortlist decisions were made with the support of two young editors, Victoria Price and Rebecca Pedley, who read [...]

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 [...]

A Few Good Books Update

Following several months of hard reading we have finally worked our way through all the manuscripts submitted to our A Few Good Books opening. This process took longer than we anticipated, due in part to the overwhelming volume of texts submitted, and we’d like to thank authors for their patience as we worked our way [...]

A Few Good Books

Our submission guidelines. As part of our ongoing publishing programme we have a genuine opportunity for a few good books. Our new guidelines reflect this and we’re hoping for a few standout book proposals.

Re: Introducing the Graphomaniacs

A small blog entry marking the tenth year anniversary of Route’s publications. Introducing the Graphomaniacs (Route 1) was published on 1 February 2000.