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Two Hackney residents among winners of the London Writers Awards 2021
By Hackney Citizen | Friday 22 January 2021 at 15:05
Award winners Carla Montemayor (left) and Elizabeth Chan.
Photographs: courtesy Spread the Word
Two local authors are set for a huge career boost after being named among the winners of the London Writers Awards 2021.
The scheme, run by talent agency Spread the Word, selects writers from diverse backgrounds for an intensive ten-month course that will help them refine their unpublished stories and make their first inroads into the industry.
Previous participants have gone on to sign book deals, and Hackney residents Carla Montemayor and Elizabeth Chan will be hoping for similar success after they were among the 30 people shortlisted from 257 entrants.
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7:00 AM January 21, 2021
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9:42 AM January 21, 2021
Seven Kings writer Sukh Brar is among the 30 people selected for the 2021 London Writers Awards.
- Credit: Spread the Word
A writer from Seven Kings is among the winners of the London Writers Awards, which highlights under-represented voices in publishing.
Sukh Brar, 35, was listed among the 30 writers who have been selected from more than 250 submissions by Spread the Word, a write development agency.
Sukh Brar developed his passion as a writer after taking a sabbatical from his day job as a chemical engineer and has racked up a number of writing prizes since then.