First Prize: £1,000 · Shortlist Prize: £500 · Have you written a novel that is self-published or is yet to be published? Then this is the competition for you. First Novel Prize 2024 Shortlist · First Novel Prize 2024 Winners · About the Prize

When are the key dates for the First 500 Novel Competition? · The competition opens for entries on Thursday 8 August, 2024. · The competition closes at 10:00 ...

The Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award. Your novel doesn't have to be finished. We initially need only 5,000 to 8,000 words and a 300 word synopsis.

Judged by a leading literary agent and a senior fiction editor, featuring a generous shortlist of ten entries and two prizes every year, the First Novel Prize ...

The James Jones First Novel Fellowship, in the amount of $12,000, is awarded annually to an American writer of a novel-in-progress who has not previously ...

The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, first awarded in 2006, was created to honor the best debut fiction of the year. The winner receives a $15000 prize ...

Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition · 15 December 2024 · Free ; Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books · 31 December 2024.

The HNS 2024 First Chapters Competition is for the first three chapters of an unpublished historical novel, aiming to promote excellence in storytelling. The ...

The award will be given to a debut novel published in the United States between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024.

This competition is aimed at writers who have completed at least 50 pages of their manuscript. Use the deadline to get those pages in shape!