Rachel Kelly wins First Book award
30 Sep 2014

Congratulations to Rachel Kelly who has won this year’s Spear’s prize for Best First Book. William Cash, editor-in-chief of Spear’s, said Rachel’s memoir ‘Black Rainbow: How words healed me - my journey through depression’ tackled the difficult but important subject of depression and was a powerful and moving account of how Rachel used poetry to overcome her demons. Rachel’s book was published by Yellow Kite, a subsidiary of Hodder & Stoughton in April and comes out in paperback on 9th October.