Blog and News
Revealing the 23 writers on the Guppy Open Submission YA longlist 2024!
Thank you so much for sending in your entry for Guppy’s open submission window. We were so impressed with the standard of writing, the original ideas and the incredible energy…
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Guppy Open Submission Competition 2024 update
We are really enjoying reading all the fantastic YA submissions we received last month – what a lot of talent there is out there! Thank you all for your patience.…
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What it means to win the Guppy Open Submission Award! OR Sorrel spills the beans.
Every day, I still wake up completely baffled that I won the Guppy Open Submission in 2022. It’s especially bizarre that because I won the Guppy Open Submission, I now…
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The Guppy Open Submission Competition 2024 is here!
It’s that time again – where we get ready to open the portholes here at Guppy Books and welcome submissions from unpublished and unagented authors for our annual competition. This…
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Independent Publishing Awards
We are thrilled to be shortlisted for the Bookseller Newcomer Award in the Independent Publishing Awards, with a ceremony on 24th April to celebrate the breadth of independent publishing here…
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The Guppy Open Submission winner is…
Congratulations to the wonderful Janeen Hayat, whose book EVIE AND MARYAM BREAK THE CODE has won the 2023 Open Submission Competition! The judges and I all loved the relationship between…
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