We’re delighted to announce that we have a new mentor joining the Spark team. Linda Cracknell is a short story writer published by Salt, a writer of radio drama,  and her debut novel will be published in October of this year.

In other good news for the Spark team, Diana Hendry’s haunting novel for teenagers, The Seeing, (which had already been shortlisted for a Costa Award) has been shortlisted this week for a Scottish Children’s Book Award.