The Wellcome Trust/Guardian Science Writing Awards

Earlier this year, the Wellcome Trust held a competition to find new science writers. I was lucky enough to make the shortlist and, on Wednesday, I attended a science writing workshop at the Guardian offices followed by the awards ceremony.

The workshop was hosted by science journalist Alok Jha and covered three different routes into science writing, with discussions from science writer Michael Regnier, science journalist James Randerson and scientist and prominent blogger Stephen Curry.

The winners - Penny Sarchet and Tess Shellard - were later announced by comedian and judge Dara O'Briain. Other judges included editors at the Guardian and Observer and directors of the Wellcome Trust.

The winning articles will be published in the Guardian, Observer and Wellcome News in the next few months. Shellard's article is already available online and all of the shortlisted articles will soon be published on the Wellcome trust and/or Guardian blogs.

In the meantime, you can read my article here and find out more about the other shortlisted writers at their blogs; The Soft Anonymous, Katie PhD, Life = Science + k, The Rightness of Wayward Sentiment, Doctor Stu's Blog, ImHo, Basic Space and Astrobioloblog.

I have endeavoured to include everyone's blogs but please let me know if you were listed and I have missed you out.

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