Congratulations to Nikita Gill on being longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023 in the Children’s and YA category for her empowering, feminist YA poetry collection These Are the Words, out now with Macmillan Children’s Books.

First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize and its new sister award Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize founded in 2020, seek to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers.