Adventures via Books for Everyone!
The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation
Announcing the 2024 Best Published Novel Award Shortlist
Something very exciting is happening in September. September 19 to be precise.
This is the day that the @Wilbur_Niso_Fdn announces the winner of the 2024 Best Published Novel Award for a novel that takes you on an adventure you will never forget….
Drumroll please for the shortlist!!!
Launched in September 2015, the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation is a charitable organisation dedicated to empowering writers, promoting literacy and advancing adventure writing as a genre. They work with readers and writers of all ages and stages, across the world.
The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is our flagship programme for published, unpublished and young writers. There are three annual awards within it.
Author of Tomorrow Award
For young writers aged 21 and under.
From those entrants, ten shortlisted young writers have their work professionally edited and digitally published in an anthology.
Anthologies from the last few years combined have had over half a million readers.
New Voice Award
An award for unpublished, aspiring authors.
They select five writers each year, taking them from a fledgling idea and opening chapters, to a finished first draft of their manuscripts. We then support them in finding a literary agent and for some, a publisher.
Best Published Novel Award
Finally, the Best Published Novel award is our Prize for published authors and seeks the best adventure fiction today.
The award is £10,000 for the winning writer. What they really hope to accomplish however, is to build a shortlist that will encompass ‘An Adventure for Everyone.’
The foundation says:
The ingredients of a great adventure story are many! An impossible quest, action, romance, insurmountable odds, a pacy plot, danger… A great adventure story often contains all these elements, but the most important thing is the feeling of being on an epic journey, exploring new horizons – be they historical or geographical.
We look for books that explore themes of courage, endurance and resourcefulness; books that allow readers to connect with a different reality or culture. And yes, they must be enjoyable – we want books that will keep a reader turning the pages from the very start right through to the last sentence.
Well, perfect for Booktrailers!
Every day this week, on The BookTrail, you will get a taste of each of these books in turn and get to taste every one of the adventures.
Like a smörgåsbord of fiction if you like. Like what you see, hear and feel, you can then buy the book for the full literary travel experience.
Let the adventure begin!…………………….
Adventure map
Your literary travel itinerary:
LISKEARD, CORNWALL – Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernières
JAMAICA / NETHERLANDS / PLYMOUTH – Saltblood by Francesca de Torres
TBILISI, GEORGIA – Hard By a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili
LAZIO, ITALY – The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B Miller
NIGERIA – Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
LONDON – Our Hideous Progeny by C E McGill
