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**YouWriteOn** was launched in January 2006 as an online [writing circle](/source/Writing_circle) to help new writers gain critical feedback on their work and improve their chances of getting published. Each month, YouWriteOn's top ten rated opening chapters receive feedback from professional editors working for major publishing houses.[1]

To participate, writers upload their opening chapters. The chapters are randomly assigned by YouWriteOn to be [peer critiqued](/source/Peer_critique) and rated based on a variety of criteria: [character](/source/Character_(arts)), [plot](/source/Plot_(narrative)), pace & structure, use of language, narrative voice, [dialogue](/source/Dialogue), [setting](/source/Setting_(fiction)), [theme](/source/Theme_(literature)) and ideas.

On the first day of each month the five highest rated chapters receive a free professional [critique](/source/Literary_criticism).[2]

## Professional critiques

The literary professionals involved with the site who provide feedback for the highest rated opening chapters of YouWriteOn members each month include editors for [Bloomsbury Publishing](/source/Bloomsbury_Publishing), [Random House](/source/Random_House) and [Orion Publishing Group](/source/Orion_Publishing_Group).[3]

## Book of the Year Award

At the end of each year, YouWriteOn's literary professionals judge the best opening chapters from the previous twelve months and choose the *Book of the Year*.

### 2007 award

Source:[4]

- Overall winner: [Guy Saville](/source/Guy_Saville) for *[The Afrika Reich](/source/The_Afrika_Reich)*
- Children’s fiction winner: [Justine Windsor](/source/Justine_Windsor) for *Charlie Squires goes Elsewhere*

### 2008 award

- Overall winner: [Trilby Kent](/source/Trilby_Kent) for *Smoke Portrait*[5]
- Children’s fiction winner: [Wai Ian Mo](/source/Wai_Ian_Mo) for *Tiger-Mouse*

### 2009 Award

- Overall winner:
- Children’s fiction winner:

### 2010 Award

Source:[6]

- Overall winner: [Charlotte Betts](/source/Charlotte_Betts) for *The Apothecary’s Daughter*.
- Children’s fiction winner: [Justine Windsor](/source/Justine_Windsor) for *The Scarlet Heart*

### 2011 Award

Source:[7]

- Overall winner: [Robbie Smith](/source/Robbie_Smith_(writer)) for *The Grower*.
- Children’s fiction winner: [Annie Oliver](/source/Annie_Oliver_(writer)) for *Scarlett and the Soul Thief*.

### 2012 Award

Source:[8]

- Overall winner: [John Dylan](/source/John_Dylan) for *Divine Affairs*
- Children’s fiction winner: Mike Hanson for *365 Rooms*

### 2013 Award

Source:[9]

- Overall winner: [Graeme Shimmin](/source/Graeme_Shimmin) for *A Kill in the Morning*
- Children’s fiction winner: Mike Hanson for *Jacob Groat & the Ghosts of Warehouse 33*

## Successes

*The Afrika Reich* by [Guy Saville](/source/Guy_Saville), overall winner in 2007, was published by [Hodder & Stoughton](/source/Hodder_%26_Stoughton) in 2012.

[Katherine Webb](/source/Katherine_Webb_(author)), author of bestselling novel *The Legacy*, was discovered on youwriteon.com by publisher Orion after being, rated as a Top Ten story on youwriteon by members. *The Legacy* became an Amazon bestseller and Channel 4 TV Book Club winner.[10]

Book of the Year (2007) finalist [Douglas Jackson](/source/Douglas_Jackson_(author)) won a six-figure, two-book deal for his novel *The Emperor’s Elephant*. It was published, as *Caligula*, by [Transworld Publishers](/source/Transworld_Publishers) in 2008 and Jackson went on to publish several sequels.[11]

Third place winner in the children’s category (2007), [Bob Burke](/source/Bob_Burke), secured a deal with [The Friday Project](/source/The_Friday_Project) for his book *The Third Pig Detective Agency*.

*The Bufflehead Sisters* by 2nd place runner-up (2007) [Patricia Delois](/source/Patricia_Delois) was the #1 recommended novel in *Maine Sunday Telegram'*s '10 must reads for Christmas', and was described as 'the most stunning work of imagination published by a Maine author this year'.[12]

*The Apothecary’s Daughter* by [Charlotte Betts](/source/Charlotte_Betts), overall winner in 2010, was published by [Piatkus](/source/Piatkus) in 2010.[13]

*A Kill in the Morning* by [Graeme Shimmin](/source/Graeme_Shimmin), overall winner in 2013, was published by [Transworld Publishers](/source/Transworld_Publishers) in 2014.[14]

## References

1. [view youwriteon.com homepage](http://www.youwriteon.com) and youwriteon professional critiques forum

1. [BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Chart champions unsigned writers](https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4810398.stm)

1. [View youwriteon.com](http://www.youwriteon.com) homepage and professional critiques forum on the YWO homepage

1. ["YouWriteOn Book of Year 2007"](http://www.youwriteon.com/info/book-of-the-year.aspx). YouWriteOn.

1. [BBC NEWS | England | Dorset | Dorset writer wins web book award](https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/7269607.stm)

1. ["YouWriteOn Book of Year 2010"](http://www.youwriteon.com/info/Authors/youwriteon-book-of-the-year-awards-2010.aspx). YouWriteOn.

1. ["YouWriteOn Book of Year 2011"](http://www.youwriteon.com/info/YouWriteOnBookAwards/youwriteon-book-of-the-year-2011.aspx). YouWriteOn.

1. ["YouWriteOn Book of Year 2012"](http://www.youwriteon.com/info/booknews/book-of-the-year-2012.aspx). YouWriteOn.

1. ["YouWriteOn Book of Year 2013"](http://www.youwriteon.com/info/YouWriteOnBookAwards/youwriteon-book-of-the-year-2013.aspx). YouWriteOn.

1. [view youwriteon.com homepage](http://www.youwriteon.com)

1. ["Books by Douglas Jackson"](http://www.douglas-jackson.net/books/). Douglas Jackson.

1. [The bookseller: Oct 13 | Review | guardian.co.uk Books](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/13/featuresreviews.guardianreview34)

1. ["The Apothecary's Daughter"](https://www.charlottebetts.com/the-apothecarys-daughter/). Charlotte Betts. 17 December 2010.

1. ["A Kill in the Morning to be published by Transworld"](https://graemeshimmin.com/a-kill-in-the-morning-to-be-published-by-transworld//). Graeme Shimmin. 26 June 2013.

## External links

- [You Write On Home Page](http://www.youwriteon.com/)
- [Guy Saville/Africa Reich](http://www.africareich.com/)
- [Douglas Jackson](http://www.douglas-jackson.net/)
- [Charlotte Betts](http://www.charlottebetts.com/)
- [Graeme Shimmin](http://graemeshimmin.com)

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