Glen Dimplex New Writers Award

Glen Dimplex and the Irish Writers' Centre are delighted to announce the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2008.

Awards will be made to the best first book published in the last year in Ireland and the UK by an author within each of the categories of Fiction, Poetry, Children's Book, Biography/Non-fiction and for the best first book published in any genre in the Irish language. The Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year 2008 will be chosen from the five category winners.

The shortlist will be announced in October 2008. Award winners in each category and the overall winner will be announced at a presentation ceremony in Dublin in November 2008.

Further information on the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards is available at: www.newwritersawards.ie