Congratulations to Jody Cooksley, the winner of the Caledonia Novel Award 2023! We are delighted that Jody has signed with agent Charlotte Seymour, who judged this year’s award and chose Jody’s Victorian gothic novel, The Small Museum, from a shortlist of seven writers and a longlist of fifteen. Jody wins £1,500 and this year’s specially-designed artwork by Edinburgh artist Lucy Roscoe. As the author of the best novel from the UK and Ireland, Jody also wins the free place on a writing course at Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre.
Excerpts from Jody’s novel and all the shortlisted entries are available to read here.