Join me for a special episode digging deep into the Women's Prize Discoveries 2025, a prize and program for unpublished women fiction writers in the UK and Ireland, with two of this years judges Dreda Say Mitchell, an award winning and bestselling crime and mystery author and Chloe Timms, journalist, author and podcast host. We are joined by the winner of the inaugural Discoveries Prize 2021, Emma van Straaten, whose debut novel This Immaculate Body will be published in February. This episode is packed full of advice and will get you itching to pull out your Work in Progress and enter the prize.

Links

Women's Prize Discoveries 2025

Girl, Missing - Dreda Say Mitchell

The Seawomen - Chloe Timms

This Immaculate Body - Emma van Straaten

Dreda Say Mitchell - dredamitchell.com

Chloe Timms - chloetimms.co.uk

Confessions of A Debut Novelist with Chloe Timms

Emma van Straaten on Instagram @evswrites

Book Proposal Group Program - pennywincerwrites.com/bookproposalgroup

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