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Mslexia Women’s Novel Competition 2015

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Closing date: 
21 September 2015
Entry: 
Women of any nationality from any country are eligible, so long as they have not been published a novel Entry fee £25
Prize: 
£5,000

Cue the fanfares... it's time again for our Women's Novel Competition! This year, we're on the lookout for novels of at least 50,000 words written for adults (and young adults) in any genre by previously unpublished women novelists.

Placing in the competition can help you along the road to publishing success. The 2011 winning novel The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland was published by HarperCollins, and Lu Hersey's Deep Water - the winning entry in our 2012 Children's Novel Competition - secured a publishing deal last year. There couldn't be a more perfect excuse to finally polish off a dusty draft, or put pen to paper on that new idea. 2015 could the year you get noticed.

1st prize: £5,000

The winner and four other finalists will receive manuscript feedback from The Literary Consultancy and an invitation to a special networking event with literary agents.

Entry fee: £25 per novel

To enter, please submit the first 5,000 words of your completed novel, which must total at least 50,000 words.

Judges: Marina Lewycka (novelist), Juliet Mushens (literary agent), Di Speirs (Books Editor, BBC Radio & Music Production)

Please read the competition rules before entering. For any questions about your entry, email novel@mslexia.co.uk or call 0191 204 8860 to speak to a real person.

To help encourage submissions we've published the first two in a series of three Novel Writing Workshops, specially devised to help writers at the editing stage of the novel writing process.

Good luck with your entries!

For more details

Closing date: 
21 September 2015
Entry: 
Women of any nationality from any country are eligible, so long as they have not been published a novel Entry fee £25
Prize: 
£5,000