Ian Wilson, the winner of the October 2023 SCBWI Slush Pile Challenge, which was set by Ludo Cinelli and Steven Evans, has written about his experience of submitting and his feedback session.

Ian writes of the challenge:

“This concept unlocked something in me. My main character is a thirteen-year-old boy on an imaginary Scottish island in medieval times. His dialect flowed easily, and I finished the synopsis in a single session. The result read so much better than my previous efforts and I was lucky enough to win. From now on, all my synopses will look like this (until an agent tells me they don’t like it, of course…).”

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