Mayo Agard-Olubo is the winner of HUK's Mo Siewcharran Prize 2023!

He's a writer and poet based in London who writes fiction in prose and verse for children and young adults. He is also a winner of the A Writing Chance writing competition, a London Writers Award, and a FAB Prize Highly Commended Award.



He has been longlisted for The Jericho Prize, is a graduate of the HarperCollins Author Academy and has had articles published in?The Bookseller?and the?New Statesman.





Diane Ewen is British illustrator, born in Walsall, in the West Midlands.

She has always been in love with art and graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a B.A. Honours Degree in illustration. Diane likes to create illustrations that are hand-drawn in pencil before painting in watercolour and acrylics prior to embellishing them using Photoshop but she also enjoys working directly on the computer screen creating her designs; constantly developing her style as she progresses.She likes the fact that illustrations are the first things that entice the reader to engage with a book and is inspired by the use of vibrant colour.