Tinder Press open submission
Headline UK imprint Tinder Press has partnered with The Reading Agency to hold an open submissions period for unagented manuscripts.
Unagented authors will be able to send their manuscripts direct to the imprint for two weeks in March, with the event being held to celebrate two years of Tinder Press.
Publisher Mary-Anne Harrington said: "Since we launched Tinder Press with the publication of Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell, we've had a huge amount to celebrate, and 2015 is already shaping up to be an exciting year, with new novels from Patrick Gale and Sarah Winman.
"At Tinder Press we are committed to finding the freshest literary voices, and the time seems right for us to reach out directly to authors at an early stage in their careers. This business is all about discovering new talent, so we're hoping to be surprised and delighted, and that at the end of the day we'll find an author we can go on to work with in the future."
The Reading Agency will help promote the open submissions period to libraries and readers with a poster and flyer campaign in libraries, as well as using its Reading Groups for Everyone website to reach reading groups.
The open submissions period will take place from March 2nd to 15th, with authors asked to submit 50 pages, an outline and an author biography. Only previously unpublished writers of fiction can take part, and short stories as well as novels will be considered.
All submitted books must be complete, and written in English. Submissions will be read by the imprint's editors.
Full manuscripts may then be requested, and selected authors will have the opportunity to meet with one of the Tinder Press editors.
More information can be found on the Tinder Press website.