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New Writers Awards 2023 shortlist
The New Writers Awards panel have shortlisted the following people, and wish to commend them for the high standards of their applications

Fiction and narrative non-fiction
- Bethany Wren
- Pauline Diamond Salim
- Alice Florence Orr
- Gillean McDougall
Poetry
- Patrick Romero McCafferty
- Alyson Kissner
Children's and YA
- Tania Scott
- Hannah Ekekwe
Scots
- James Sinclair
- Ross Crawford
- Kat Connelly
Spoken word
- Sarah Grant
- Myla Corvidae
- Mitchell Robertson