Acknowledgements
T
he London Library Emerging Writers Programme would not have been possible without a huge amount of support. We would like to thank all the individuals and organisations who granted us the funds to carry out this Programme: Alain Aubry, AM Heath Literary Agency, Lucy Bailie, Nick Campsie, Juliet Carey, Nicholas Coleridge CBE, O J Colman Charitable Trust, Sir Howard Davies & Lady Prue Keely Davies, Sir Mallory Factor, Adam and Victoria Freudenheim, David Gilmour and Polly Samson, The Golden Bottle Trust, Daisy Goodwin, Lynda Gratton, James Harding, Sir Max Hastings, Robert Macleod, Nikki Meinertzhagen, The Julio and Maria Marta Núñez Memorial Fund, Sebastien Paraskevas, Lady Rogers, Jenni Russell, Professor Sir Simon Schama, Victor Sebestyen, Dr William Stern, Virago Books, Marcus Wilford and a number of anonymous donors. A huge thank you to the judges, who brought fun, rigour, inclusivity and real understanding of the Programme’s ethos to the process of whittling more than 800 applications all the way down to 40: Isabelle Dupuy (chair), Bidisha, Eleanor Greene, Daniel Hahn, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Amy Rosenthal, Anna Whitwham and Victoria Hobbs and her colleagues at AM Heath. Thank you to everybody who generously shared their expertise with the cohort during the writing development masterclasses and workshops, which took place over the course of the year: Abi Daré, Edward Docx, Travis Elborough, Jane Feaver, Kirstie Macdonald, John O’Farrell, Scott Pack, Nii Parkes, Amy Rosenthal, Sarah Savitt, Gemma Seltzer, Euan Thorneycroft and, from The London Library, Matthew Brooke and Amanda Stebbings.
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