Prizes: 1st Place: £5,000; all shortlisted entrants win feedback on their full manuscript; all longlisted entrants win extract feedback; online novel editing course worth £1,980 for one longlisted entrant.
Word Limit: Opening 5,000 words plus one page synopsis of children's or YA novel manuscripts, or up to three picture book texts
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