Awards 2008
MWA judges panel 2008
Neil is editor of Bloodaxe Books, which he founded in 1978. He has edited nearly a thousand poetry books and published several anthologies, including Staying Alive (2002), Being Alive (2004) and Earth...
Unpublished Poetry
Waseem’s area of specialisation is media, public diplomacy and advising governments on Media policies. An accomplished award winning broadcaster he is currently engaged as a media consultant in the...
Unpublished Categories
Sunny is editor of the online magazine – Asians in Media, which has informed the industry since 2003. In 2005 and 2007 he helped prepare a list for the Guardian naming the most powerful Asians in British...
Unpublished Categories
Riazat is a Religious Affairs Correspondent at The Guardian newspaper. She studied Modern Languages at oxford and went to school in Southampton. Riazat researches and presents awards and winning ‘...
Best Published Non-Fiction
Alan grew up in Huyton, Merseyside, studied in London, settled in Birmingham. His novels so far are: Flight Patterns (Gollancz, 1999) and After the Man Before (Methuen, 2002, now in paperback). He is just...
Best Unpublished Novel
Sara has been producing books, short stories and poetry programmes for BBC Radio 4 for over fifteen years, and has commissioned stories and scripts from some of country’s best writers. She’s also...
Best Unpublished Novel
Nicola has worked as a teacher, a financial analyst and a software guru. She now works part-time as a Fellow of the National Academy of Writing, based at Birmingham City University. Boyd Tonkin included Nicola...
Best Unpublished Novel
Nigel has been in publishing since 1979 in a number of Sales positions. He worked in London for Penguin Books until joining newly formed headline Books in March 1989. Initially responsible for establishing the...
Unpublished Short Story
Keshini is an Editor at Avon (a division of HarperCollins Publishers). After graduating from Leeds University in 2000, Keshini worked in Waterstone’s Leeds before moving to Book Club Associates in 2003...
Unpublished Short Story
Rowan is an editor for the Little, Brown, Abacus and Virago imprints at the Little Brown Book Group. Previously she has worked for publishers in Paris and at DGA literary agency in London. She lives in East...
Unpublished Short Story
Randa is a twenty-nine year-old lawyer. Does my head look big in this? is her first novel, and, like its fictional heroine, she has her own identity hyphens to contend with as an Australian-born-Muslim-...
Under 16's
Clare runs the “Transmissions” programme for 12-25 year olds at the Birmingham Rep Theatre, teaching the fundamentals of play writing. Herself a graduate of a programme for young playwrights, she...
Under 16's
Jonathan is the editor of Young Writer and Writers’ News, published by Warners Group Publications from their Leeds office. He has pursued a career in journalism since securing his first job as a...
Under 16's
Erica is an Assistant Editor at Bloomsbury, working on literary fiction and illustrated non-fiction books. She is a diverse reader, and is always on the hunt for new and unusual writing. Some of her favourite...
Unpublished Children’s
Lauren is 22, Welsh, but now living in East London. She studied Drama at Exeter University and cut her teeth in the book trade with Waterstone’s, where she started as a Saturday girl when she was...
Unpublished Children’s
Raficq was born in South Africa to Muslim Parents, Raficq Abdulla is an Oxford-educated barrister who was formerly the University Secretary and legal advisor to Kingston University and is now a Visiting Fellow...
Unpublished Poetry
