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Two novelists from the US and Australia have been named winners of the Guardian Hot Key Books Young Writers Prize.
Katie Coyle, from New Jersey, USA, and Joe Ducie, from Perth, Australia, have each won a publishing contract worth £10,000 with Hot Key for their respective books Vivian Versus The Apocalypse and The Rig, which will be published on 5th September 2013.
The winners were chosen by a judging panel comprising of authors Will Hill and Elen Caldecott, Guardian Children's books editor Julia Eccleshare, bookseller John Newman and Hot Key Books publisher Emily Thomas. Students from Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton, London and Thongsley Fields Primary School in Cambridgeshire were also involved in the judging process.
Thomas said: "We are so delighted for Joe and Katie as fully-deserving joint winners of this prize, and so proud to be publishing such talented debuts.
"Both The Rig and Vivian Versus the Apocalypse showcase excellent writing but also a sharp commercial eye in both authors. Two fantastic new voices in YA fiction have arrived."
The award honours young writers between the ages of 18 and 25, who write for
either the 9-12 or 13-19 age categories. Entrants had to be unpublished
writers.