In 2020 the UKYABA will be run by the YAShot team in partnership with YALC. Graphics by Georgina Williams.
In 2020 our panel of judges comprises
Katharine Corr @katharinecorr as Chair of the Panel. Katharine is co-author of The Witch’s Kiss trilogy (HarperCollins) and A Throne Of Swans (Hotkey). When she’s not writing she enjoys sketching, playing the harp and annoying her sister (and co-writer) by threatening to kill off more characters. www.corrsisters.com
Tiff Lomas @UK_Booklover works in a public library and is also a Review panellist for the 2020 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. literallyaddictive.blogspot.co.uk
Sue Wallman @SueWallman is the author of Lying about Last Summer, See How They Lie, Your Turn to Die, and Dead Popular. She is also a secondary school librarian. suewallman.co.uk
Davinia Andrew-Lynch @nocturnalreader is an agent (founder of the ANDLYN agency) & former judge for the @faberbooks FAB Prize. She reps Children’s, YA & Adult fiction non-fiction – and is ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS!
Gina @GeeGinGina is an English teacher and has been a member of the YAShot Team since it all started back in 2015! https://yashot.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/georgina-second-year-intern/
Our independent observer for 2020 is Collett Dawson @collettdawson. Collett is an entertainment publicist, show producer, brand & media profiler, and celebrity broker, she owns @CoLabNetwork. thecolabnetwork.com
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Dr Alexia Casale is the Director of YAShot, a YA author and freelance editor and writing consultant. You can find a full profile here.
Ellie Thomas is Alexia’s YAShot & UKYABA mentee for 2020. Ellie is an Oxford English Literature grad with a passion for all things fiction. A feminism, tea and dog enthusiast with Bridget Jones-esque chaotic energy.
Victoria Ellis @victoriaeellis2 is a recent English Literature postgrad from Cardiff University. Before that, she was studying at the University of Reading and has a love for all things literary. You can find Victoria at www.cartonmanettedarnay.wordpress.com
Marta @Monogamistread is an avid YA reader, coffee and stationary addict, and full-time cat mom. monogamistreader.wordpress.com
Lou @LouiseDesigns is a designer, maker, artist and a dyslexic public librarian. She is YA reader (has her own smallish library at home), dog owner, Slytherin, and life long geek! Tea and cake are also vital life staples. louisesdesigns.weebly.com
Hadiyah Khan @hadiyahsama has been with YAShot since everything started in 2015! She volunteered then completed the full 2-year internship programme before bexoming a senior mentor and member of the core team. https://yashot.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/hadiyah-second-year-intern/
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Huge shout out to our hosts for 2020 – the stupendous YALC!
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2019 UKYABA TEAM
In 2019 the UKYABA was be run by the YAShot team in partnership with YALC. Graphics by Georgina Williams.
In 2019 our panel of judges, chaired by Dr Alexia Casale (YA author & YAShot Director), comprised Amber Caravéo (YA agent), Nathan Brown (Hillingdon Libraries), Savita Kalhan (YA author & book-group leader) and Vashti Hardy (MG author & former school teacher). Our independent observer for 2019 was Tanya Efthymiou (school librarian).
Dr Alexia Casale is the Director of YAShot, a YA author and freelance editor and writing consultant. You can find a full profile here.
Amber Caravéo is co-founder of Skylark Literary – www.skylark-literary.com – a boutique literary agency supporting the best in Children’s and YA fiction. Formerly, Amber was Editorial Director of Orion Children’s Books, where she worked with many prize-winning and bestselling authors such as Juno Dawson and Holly Black.
Savita Kalhan is the YA author of The Girl in the Broken Mirror and The Long Weekend. Her third novel, That Asian Kid, will be published by Troika Books in August 2019. Visit her website at www.savitakalhan.com.
Vashti Hardy is a writer of children’s books living near Brighton in Sussex with her husband and three teens. She was a primary school teacher for several years, and has a special interest in children’s writing, especially free-writing and the use of journals and creating fantasy worlds. She has a first-class honours teaching degree with English specialism and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Chichester. After leaving teaching to focus more on her writing, she became a copywriter and digital marketing executive. Her books BRIGHTSTORM and WILDSPARK are published in the UK by Scholastic.
Nathan Brown is a librarian and Branch Manager for Hillingdon Libraries.
Huge shout out to our hosts for 2019 – the stupendous YALC!
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