It's often been said that everyone has a novel inside them.
Some cynics love to add that inside them is precisely where it should stay.
Cathie Hartigan, Sophie Duffy and I have decided to test this hypothesis. We have set up a brand new fiction award, The Exeter Novel Prize, which in its inaugural year will be sponsored by Exeter Writers and will offer a cash prize of £500, with five prizes of £50 for runners-up.
You can find the details on this link:
http://www.creativewritingmatters.co.uk/.
Entry will be open to anyone, published or yet-to-be-published, who does not already have a literary agent and is not currently under contract to a publisher. You can choose to write in any genre except for children. YA is likely to be acceptable, but we haven't finalised this aspect of the competition yet. Your novel can be set anywhere and at any time - past, present or future.
Please return to the Creative Writing Matters website for updates, and in the meantime perhaps start writing or polishing up that unpublished novel, ready for entry?
We'll be having a launch event in Exeter in June 2013 to which everyone will be welcome.
Hi Margaret - good luck with this - sounds intriguing & will definitely check back:)
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Please do, terms and conditions will be finalised soon! We wanted to give people a heads up now, so they can get writing.
ReplyDeleteWill keep an eye out for this - will you also promote the new competition on FB?
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