Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books
Deadline: 1st January 2024
- Entry Fee: $25
- Prizes: Three Winners share in the $1,000 USD total prize pool
- Word Limit: 5,000 words
- Category: Novel competition
- Competition Website: letterreview.com/information/
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Novel Competitions
Letter Review Prize for Reprints
Deadline: 1st January 2024
- Entry Fee: $25
- Prizes: Three Winners share in the $1,000 USD total prize pool
- Prizes: Three Winners share in the $1,000 USD total prize pool
- Word Limit: First 5,000 words of your manuscript or up to 70 lines of poetry
- Category: Various
- Competition Website: letterreview.com/information/
Searchlight Awards − Best Chapter Book for 5-8-year-olds 2024
Deadline: Midnight (UK time) 1 February 2024
- Entry Fee: £12 per entry
- Prizes: First prize: £350 and a one-to-one call with the agent judge; the top 10 entries will feature in Searchlight’s Agent/Publisher Pitch Book of winning stories
- Word Limit: Submit one chapter (1,000 words max) plus a pitch (80 words max)
- Judge: Katie Blagden of The Bright Agency
- Category: Novel Competitions
- Competition Website: searchlightawards.co.uk
Bridport Prize – Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award
Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on 31 May 2024
- Entry Fee: £24 per entry
- Prizes: First prize: £1,500; second prize: £750; three further prizes of £150; plus publication and manuscript/extract appraisal
- Word Limit: 8,000 words max (5,000 minimum) plus 300-word synopsis. (Title not included in the word count.)
- Judge: Ross Raisin
- Category: Novel Competitions
- Competition Website: bridportprize.org.uk/the-competition/novel-award