The London Library is proud to announce the publication of the third annual volume of From the Silence of the Stacks, New Voices Rise, an anthology of work from the 2021-22 cohort of The London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme. The anthology is available to read online or buy now.

Each volume of New Voices Rise showcases an exciting array of bright new talent, featuring contributions spanning prose to poetry, non-fiction to graphic novels, and stage to screen. The third volume will be no different, incorporating 16 works of fiction, 13 poems, eight works of non-fiction, eight works for stage/screen, and one extract each from a graphic novel and graphic memoir. Extracts included in the volume explore a huge range of topics, such as migration and identity, climate change and war, parenthood and childhood, grief and joy, illness, homelessness, inequality, disability, sexuality, myth and religion.

Contributors to the third volume include award-winning poet and photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind (One Language, Doorstop Books), Courtney Conrad (winner of the Eric Gregory Award and Bridport Prize Young Writers Award), Paolo Chianta (BBC Writersroom Comedy Script Room 2020/21), Ella Baron (editorial cartoonist and former Staff cartoonist of The TLS), Gilli Fryzer (winner of the Mslexia Short Story prize 2020), Esohe Uwadiae (She Is A Place Called Home, VAULT Festival 2020), and David Willey (The Stinging Fly, 404 Ink, PANK and Ambit).

The contributors were originally chosen for the Programme from a field of almost 1000 applicants by a panel of judges comprising of travel writer and London Library Trustee Sara Wheeler (Chair); YA and adult fiction writer Sareeta Domingo; screenwriter Karim Flint; poet Will Harris; playwright and screenwriter Alexis Zegerman; novelist, memoirist and writing mentor Tim Lott; the team at Virago; and agents from AM Heath.

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