The Book Edit Writers’ Prize 2024 is open for submissions.
Chosen from a writing competition for British and/or UK-based, unpublished novelists from backgrounds and communities currently underrepresented in UK publishing, The Book Edit Writers’ Prize is open for submissions. The aim of the Writers’ Prize is to help talented writers, who might not otherwise have access to the industry, get their work in front of an audience of top literary agents.
This is our fourth year of running the prize and the second year in partnership with Legend Press. Judged this year by acclaimed novelist and artist Lara Haworth, the competition will select eight writers to read their work at a live Zoom showcase event for invited industry guests taken from The Book Edit’s wide industry network. After the event, an anthology of the readings and recordings from the showcase will be published on The Book Edit’s website.
“The Book Edit Writer’s Prize was the first writing prize I ever entered, so winning gave me so much confidence that I can actually pursue writing as a career. The community aspect of the prize is also invaluable. I’m still in touch with the girls who also won and we keep up-to-date with each others’ progress and successes. Off the back of the prize, I had two agents get in touch with me… and since winning the prize, I received a scholarship to the Faber Academy for one of their novel writing courses…my novel has improved a lot in the last 12 months, in no small part due to the confidence and validation from winning the prize.”
— Stephanie Torrance, Writers’ Prize Winner 2023
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