History
The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition offers 'a worldwide publishing contract with Chicken House with a £10,000 advance (subject to contract) for a complete fiction manuscript of any genre for children aged 7 up to YA. The winning entry will be the novel that, in the opinion of the judges, demonstrates the greatest entertainment value, quality, originality and suitability for children. The winner will also be offered representation by Davinia Andrew-Lynch of Andlynt.'
Source: 'Competitions', Chicken House website
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2021
winner y
Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies
Winifred Weatherby Saves the Century;
The Remarkables
Frome
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Chicken House
,
2023
27053700
2023
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Winifred Weatherby is no ordinary nineteenth-century girl. She’s unconventional, plucky, and smart. In fact, she’s a girl-genius inventor on a mission to become an engineer, despite the fact that engineering is a Men-Only Zone in 1889.
'After being expelled from her progressive academy for promising young ladies, the incorrigible Winifred Weatherby is secretly recruited to be a gadget mistress for Queen Victoria’s league of young lady spies. While aiming to exhibit her Very Promising Invention at the 1889 Paris World Fair, Winnie must protect Queen Victoria from would-be plotters, find her missing father, and prove to the world that girls CAN be inventors and engineers.' (Source: Author's website)
The 2021 Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition was offered in conjunction with the UK's Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) to celebrate 'IET’s 150th anniversary, putting engineering and technology front and centre of children’s fiction, while helping to raise awareness of the industry and challenging outdated stereotypes' (Source: 'IET media release, 14 October 2021'.
