Villy Tichkova

Drum roll please🥁. . . We are thrilled to announce the longlist for the Times Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2025! Congratulations to our talented longlisted authors. Keep an eye on our channels for updates 👀

I’ve kept this to cheer myself up during the january blues. So grateful for these awards, they really help us move and write. ✍🏾🤩🪩 #seachlight

Entering competitions is my new found way to polish my work, gather enthusiasm, and keep on the dreaming. Thank you #SearchlightAwards

I had to sit for that one. I didn't grow up in a culture that celebrated writers achievements, nor was it a culture of trophies. And I had mixed feelings about them, I admit. But now I won have my own trophy all I can say is thank you @writementor

@Becca_JF21 @prizenovel_CNP Fantastic, well done Rebecca! I so love Tideslip and I cant wait to have my copy and read it in one go!xxx

Was so happy to find out that Tideslip, one of the children’s novels I’m working on, has made the Top 100 in the #CNPKids2024 competition and will be in the agent showcase this summer. Thank you @prizenovel_CNP and for the helpful feedback!

Thanks for the great article, @HelenJoC, and good luck for the launch of your funny, sassy new take on the super hero story, #TheLoveInterest! @BloomsburyBooks #MAWFYP

@abielphinstone @mrbsemporium The two sources for my inspiration to become a writer!

The awesome @mrbsemporium has an EMBER SPARK bathtub display! Indie bookselling on fire 🔥

@louisareid @writementor @BathSpaUni @tiafisher_ Thank you @louisareid, I owe the biggest thank you to you, my mentor!!! Dancing on fire would've never seen the light of day without your support, both literally, and emotional. I am forever grateful to you for your kindness!

My verse novel Dancing on Fire is the YA awarded winner. Thank you @writementor for championing me. Thank you for the learning #MAWYP @BathSpaUni. A special thank you to @tiafisher_ for encouraging me this morning to ‘shoutout from the roof top’ write-mentor.com/2024/05/23/win…

@ellasaurus_ @writementor @BathSpaUni Thank you Ella. That means the world to me!

@sanchez_m_m @writementor Thank you Michelle, that is so kind of you! ❤️

@writementor @VTichkova Congratulations, Villy! The excerpt I heard from your novel is stunning and so evocative! Wishing you much success with your story!♥️

We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2024 Novel & Picture Book Awards, sponsored by @bonnierbooks_uk 🎉 shorturl.at/R83tf Congratulations to our winners, our runners-up and those who shortlisted, and thank you to everyone who shared their stories with us. So many brilliant entries, and so much writing talent out there waiting to be discovered. A huge thank you to our judges - Bonnier editors @ellasaurus_, @EmmaMatthewson1, @ruthmarybennett, @MurrayGeorgiaM, @sophinse & @ameliawarren_, and agents @keslupo, @LindsayLit, @LaurieEmTweets & @alicelovesbooks for giving up your time to review the entries and select our winners. Read the 🧵 below for the winners of each category plus what our judges said about their entries.

@ToppingsBath love of books and westies

@PenguinUKBooks The year of magical thinking, Didion is so skilled at describing just how pathetic and true the experience of grief makes us be.

What is the best memoir you've ever read, and why? 🧡

My two favourite things that keep my #sanity, to #Move and #Writenow put together in this experiencial five weeks long online workshop. #Consciousdance #poetry in motion villytichkova.com/wordsinmotion

@chickenhsebooks If I have only have the first chapter (1250words) written and presentable, can I still submit? Or does it have to be over 1500 words and preferably more than one chapter?

Calling all aspiring writers📣 OPEN COOP IS BACK🐣 This leap year, for 24hrs only, we're opening to submissions! If you’ve got a great idea for a story we would love to hear from you! (It doesn't have to be perfect or even finished!) Full details here: loom.ly/L9R4gn0

Where will our wild words take you? Here’s a sneak peek of the opening lines of our books – this is from Dancing on Fire by @VTichkova :

@AmberCaraveo @metpoliceuk Twenty years in UK and I am still amazed by this fantasy we all participate in believing, the whole world is corrupted but no the UK. And if anyone suggests corruption, they are conspiracists. I come from a country riddled with corruption and the answer is just that, corruption..

This is great & also worrying. Great that it’s finally being properly investigated. Worrying that it’s only in the wake of a TV drama!!! Private Eye exposed this scandal long ago. Why did @metpoliceuk do nothing then?

This is Villy Tichkova @VTichkova Villy's book Dancing on Fire is a YA contemporary verse novel about a girl choosing who she wants to be. Find out more about Villy on our website. The link is in our bio! #MAWFYP #MAWYP #WildWords #WritingCommunity

@nerobookawards Crossing the Line @tiafisher_

As you know we are on the hunt for the most recommendable books of the year. What books do you recommend again and again?

@tiafisher_ @HotKeyBooks @EveWhiteAgency Ah so sorry to miss you @tiafisher_ I am dancing in Bilbao for a week, if only we can be in two places at the same time, your talk would be one!

Looking forward to any questions on #versenovels for teens #readingforpleasure next Monday May 8-9pm BST! #CrossingtheLine #versenovel #poetry #YA #kidlit #writerslife @HotKeyBooks @EveWhiteAgency #edutwitter #ukteenchat 📚