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Announcing the New Developing Tutors for 2025/26

London Writers Awards participant Swithun Cooper shortlisted for Desperate Literature Prize

Natasha Brown longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

Aimee Cliff – Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awardee – debut bought by William Collins

Spread the Word Director Ruth Harrison named amongst RSL 2025 Honorary Fellows

Quercus signs debut from Emma Lowther, London Writers Awards Alumna, in six-figure deal

Two London Writers Awardees shortlisted for debut crime award

McKitterick Prize awarded to London Writers Award alumni Tom Newlands

London Writers Awards alumna Ashani Lewis takes home two prizes at Society of Authors’ Awards

Inaugural Disabled Poets Prize winner Jamie Field joins New Northern Poets 2025 Cohort

Three Spread the Word alumna achieve places on London Libraries Emerging Writers Programme

CLOSED: Apply to join Poetics Lab, a new poetry programme for young writers