Award-winning novelists Amy Sackville and Cynan Jones will have their chance to shine at the Hiscox Young Authors event.

Ms Sackville, a creative writing lecturer at the University of Kent, will be talking about her latest novel, Orkney, in the Merchants House on September 28 from noon.

Her first novel, The Still Point, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the BBC Culture Show’s 12 Best New Novelists.

Then Mr Jones will speak about his book The Dig, a short novel on the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a downcast farmer.

His previous novel The Long Dry won a Betty Trask Award in 2007 and his style has been likened to literary heavyweights such as Dylan Thomas, Cormac McCarthy and even Hemingway.

Owen Sheers, who won the Hay Festival Prize for Poetry 2013 and was shortlisted for the BBC Audio Drama Awards, will be at the Merchant’s House on September 28 at 3.30pm.

Mr Sheers was born in Fiji but spent his formative years in Wales. He went on to study English and creative writing at Oxford and the University of East Anglia.

He has published two poetry collections and his first novel, Resistance, has been translated into ten languages and made into a film, which he co-wrote.

Mavis Cheek, founder patron of the LitFest, said: “This year we think we have found the perfect balance of our more established authors and our younger authors, who are producing some of the most exciting and brave new fiction around.

“This year, as usual sponsored by Hiscox Insurance, we have Cynan Jones with Amy Sackville – both of whom write with extraordinary new voices – and a particular favourite of mine, Owen Sheers.”