The 2014 winner of the SI Leeds Prize was announced at the Ikley Festival on 15 October. We are ecstatic for Mahsuda Snaith (an Inscribe-supported writer), who took first prize for her novel manuscript, The Constellation of Marianne Ravine Roy.
Photo – Left to right is Kerry Young (chair of Judges, Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and Commonwealth Prize for Pao, Anita Sivakumaran (SI prize runner up) and Mahsuda Snaith (Winner of the SI Leeds prize, 2014 ; 2nd prize winner of Mslexia Novel Award, 2014). All three writers are from Leicester! The East Midlands is fast becoming the new hotbed for literary talent!
(The tutor for our next Masterclass on 8 Nov, Leone Ross, worked with both Mahsuda Snaith and Kerry Young on early drafts of their novel manuscripts)
