Awards: JBA Debut Writers over 50 Winner

Jenny Brown Associates literary agency has named Juliet Thomas winner of the 2025 JBA Debut Writers over 50 Award for her crime novel, 31 Milton Road, the Bookseller reported. Thomas receives £1,000 (about $1,345) and a week's residential course at Moniack Mhor, Scotland's Creative Writing Centre.  

The award was created in 2023 to "address the lack of literary opportunities available to older writers eager to break into the publishing industry and to celebrate and value their collected, distilled wisdom and a lifetime of reading and experience," the Bookseller noted. Also shortlisted were Sarah Drummond's Soup, Ali Morrison's The Wake, Sita Schutt's Whorl, Margherita Still's Alex Anderson Is Not Dead, and Catherine Strong's The Hostess. Susan Kemp's Greenwash was highly commended.

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