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Orange Award for New Writers 2010
Di Speirs chairs judging panel for the Award that "offers an unrivalled opportunity to reward and salute talented new writers.”
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The Orange Award for New Writers 2010 judging panel announced.
London, 10 December 2009
They are:
Di Speirs (Chair), Editor - Readings, BBC Radio 4
Rachel Cooke, Writer and Columnist at The Observer
Bernadine Evaristo, Novelist, critic and winner of the 2009 Orange Prize Youth Panel award for Blonde Roots
Di Speirs commented: “Discovering, supporting and celebrating debut work by women has always been important to me, so I am really delighted to be chairing this year's Orange Award for New Writers, a prize which offers an unrivalled opportunity to reward and salute the talented new writers that we'll be reading in years to come.”Video
The judges look forward to reading great books and discovering new talent.
find out more about the Orange Award for New Writers
find out about the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 judging panel

