A PROP maker, a social care worker and two library assistants are amongst the winners of this year's Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards.
The competition, managed by the Scottish Book Trust in association with Creative Scotland, focuses on unpublished authors.
Winners each gain £2,000 to help develop their work as well as mentoring, training and access to publishers and agents, as well as a week-long working retreat at Moniack Mhor.
This year's judges included authors Don Paterson, Amy Liptrot and Pamela Butchart and previous winners include Man Booker nominee Graeme Macrae Burnet.
Prop maker and production designer Elisabeth Ingram Wallace, from Glasgow, is amongst this year's fiction and narrative non-fiction winners, along with Edinburgh library assistant Simon Brown, project manager Laura Morgan, from North Sutherland, writer Sally Huband from Shetland and Dundee library assistant Anna Stewart.
Glasgow University survey assistant Ciara MacLaverty, retired teacher Lydia Harris, of Orkney, and university tutor Molly Vogel, from Glasgow, triumphed in the poetry section.
And in the children's and young adult section, social care worker Christine Laurenson, from Shetland, and copywriter Helen MacKenzie, from Linlithgow, were selected.
Aly Barr of Creative Scotland said: "The New Writers Awards continue to be both a strong indicator of the next big name in Scottish writing and a vital rung on the ladder for authors taking their first steps as professionals."
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