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DEBUT WRITERS OVER 50 AWARD ANNOUNCE WINNER
We are delighted that the winner of the Debut Writers Over 50 Award is Juliet Thomas for her crime novel 31 Milton Road. Juliet Thomas lives in London and Derbyshire and previously worked in finance.
31 Milton Road outline:
Amanda Rivers phones private detective Trinity Grey contending her life is in danger. Why? Because in 1990 she bought a mansion with eight acquaintances for £200,000; the deal being, as they each died, they’d leave their stakes to the survivors. Twenty-seven years later and No.31 is worth a vastly-inflated £5 million but three of them have already died young. Amanda’s allegation is that a traitor is killing them all one-by-one ‘Agatha-Christie style’ to own the whole house. And she’s up next. Trinity joins forces with life-long family friend, Radiant Cain, to investigate and the Radiant Grey Detective Agency is born.
Juliet Thomas receives a £1000 cash prize, and a week’s residential course at Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre. Shortlist runners-up are offered tailored mentoring.
31 Milton Road was chosen from an initial submission of over 350 entries. Open to all debut novelists over 50, the Award was created in 2023 to address the lack of literary opportunities available to older writers eager to break into the publishing industry and to celebrate and value their collected, distilled wisdom, and a lifetime of reading and experience.
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