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New Horizons, run jointly by the Dorset Public and School Library Services, aims to encourage young people to explore some of the best fiction by exciting new authors.

This bi-annual award promotes the work of recently published, debut authors for 9 to 13 year olds and is run alongside a creative writing competition. The aim of the award is to motivate young people to move away from tried and tested authors and try something new. We also hope that schools will use the award and the associated creative writing competition to encourage their pupils to share their views about the different genres and styles of writing, and to think about the creative process of writing. The competition provides an opportunity to experience what it is like to set out on the creative journey to become a newly published author!

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The New Horizons Book Award 2012 is being run jointly by the Public and School Library Services in Dorset. The award is open to debut authors of a fiction book for children (aged 9 – 13 years) published from March 2010 to September 2011.

The aim of the award is to encourage you to try something new! Then, go on-line, at www.dorsetforyou.com/bookaward to cast a vote for your favourite title.

The competition is now closed.
The winning author will be announced at a ceremony in May 2012
and prizes will be awarded in each age category.

Writing Competition

The following stories have been shortlisted. If any of the writers below haven't yet been contacted by Dorset School Library Service can they please contact either:

Gina on 01258 451151 or
E-mail: schoollibraryservice@dorsetcc.gov.uk

9 to 10 age group
Lily - Gone In a Puff of Smoke
Lucy - Curse of the Brussels Sprouts
Kali - The Sacred Cashew Tree
Patrick - Plane-Wrecked
Isabelle - Spring in Summer
Luke - Mystery Solved

11 to 13 age group
Natasha - White Winter
Ottilie - The Dare
Maya - Twelve Letters
Natasha - Blue Moon
Lucy - The Wave Pushers
Jack - A Broken World
Freddie - Knights of the Lake

Read the 9 to 10 Age Category Competition Entries

Read the 11 to 13 Age Category Competition Entries

 

 

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