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Eilidh McKenzie discusses her journey as the winner of the 2026 Novel Competition and her novel Finding Calliope.

Meet Eilidh McKenzie, winner of our 2026 Novel Competition with her middle grade fiction Finding Calliope — an extract of which is available to read at New2theScene. We sit down with Eilidh to delve deeper into her writing journey, learning what inspires her, drives her, and what she’s doing to fulfil her greatest ambition. Finding Calliope first entered Eilidh’s consciousness when she was thirteen, and it’s taken ten years to develop into the novel it is today. The biggest transformation hap...

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Guest: Eilidh McKenzie

Topics covered

• writing journey
• novel competition
• middle grade fiction
• inspiration
• ambition

Keywords

• Eilidh McKenzie
• Finding Calliope
• 2026 Novel Competition
• middle grade fiction
• writing inspiration

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Books & works: Finding Calliope

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