Carole Blake on Judging Panel for inaugural PEN International New Voices Award

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The New Voices Award has been set up to encourage new writing in the countries in which PEN operates, and to provide a space for young and unpublished authors to submit their work.

Alongside Carole on the judging panel will be Hephzibah Anderson, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Sjón and Luisa Valenzuela.

The award is to be announced at the 79th PEN International Congress in Iceland on 11 September. A shortlist of three finalists will be invited to the PEN International Congress to read from their work.

For more information see the PEN International website.