Martin Luther King had a dream that one day his children would “not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character”. We have a dream that one day diverse writers will be judged by the content of their characters and not by the colour of their skin or the nature of their background.

Bridget Blankley wins the 2016 Diversity Writing for Children Prize with her story The Ghosts and Jamal.

The Commonword Diversity Young Adult Fiction Prize 2018 welcomes submissions from unpublished authors, writing Middle Grade or  Young Adult Fiction, whose writing embraces ethnic diversity either through their own ethnicity and culture and/or in their writing.