Found out some sad news recently that Chill Awards is now closed for good. Many thanks to Pauline and a great team of readers in the UK and Spain for running these awesome awards and providing a great resource for authors for many years. Chill Awards supported Indie and small press authors by nominating winning books for their Chill with a Book Premier Readers’ Awards and Book of the Month prizes. One of my own novels – my most popular book, The Blue Man – won both of these awards during February and March this year.
Writing competitions are a great boost for authors, especially ones that incorporate such a fair and transparent selection process as Chill Awards did, by using a panel of readers and judging books against a checklist of criteria. Farewell to Chill Awards and thank you for all your amazing support for authors. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours, Pauline!
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
Leilanie Stewart 