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 [...]

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houses close their doors and eyes to unsolicited manuscripts this opening provides a rare opportunity for young unpublished novelists to have their work actually read and considered for publication.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 [...]