Martha Mills prize: new award for young writers launched by London Review Bookshop

Aimed at finding lively, unusual, original' writing by those aged between 11 and 14, the prize is inspired by the imagination and curiosity' of Martha, who died in 2021 aged 13

The London Review Bookshop has launched a prize for lively, unusual or otherwise original" writing by 11-14 year olds, offering young people the chance to have their work published.

The Martha Mills Young Writers' prize has been set up in memory of the daughter of Merope Mills, editor of the Guardian's Saturday magazine, and Paul Laity, an editor at the London Review of Books (LRB). Martha died in 2021. Her parents said that it was Martha's great curiosity and imagination" that inspired the new award.

Every book starts with nothing,
but in this case Nothing
is a boy. And this story is how
Nothing turns into Something