Do you think you could be Britain's next Chick Lit Star? We've launched the Novelicious Undiscovered 2012 Competition over at Novelicious.com.
This writing competition is in association with Avon (HarperCollins), Books and the City (Simon & Schuster UK), and Literary Agent, Diane Banks and Novelicious.com invites aspiring commercial women’s fiction writers to submit the first 3000 words of their novel to undiscovered@novelicious.com before April 3rd.
The top twenty entries, as chosen by the Novelicious.com team, will be showcased on the site during May and put to a public vote in June. From these top twenty entries two winners will be chosen.
The People’s Choice award winner (the entry with the highest amount of public votes) will win:
· A full manuscript critique with Avon Commissioning Editor Caroline Hogg over tea and cake in their London offices
· A £50 voucher for writersgifts.co.uk
· An introduction to and entry critique from Literary Agent Diane Banks of Diane Banks Associates Ltd
· A selection of 10 Avon Titles
· A Kindle
The Books and the City Choice award winner (chosen from the top 20 entries by the Fiction Editorial department at Simon & Schuster UK) will win:
· A full manuscript critique from a member of the Fiction Editorial team at Simon & Schuster UK
· Author Mentoring and meeting with Sunday Times Bestselling author of RSVP, Helen Warner
· A £50 voucher from writersgifts.co.uk
· A Selection of 10 Books and the City Titles
Maxine Hitchcock, Fiction Editorial Director at Simon & Schuster UK says:
“We're thrilled to play a part in the brilliant Novelicious Undiscovered competition. Simon & Schuster / Books and the City prides itself on finding new talent and in recent years has discovered wonderful new voices such as Jane Costello, Milly Johnson, Helen Warner and Ali Harris who have gone on to hit the bestseller lists. We're honoured to be working with Novelicious, such a supporter and champion of female fiction, to find potential new stars.”
Diane Banks of Diane Banks Associates Ltd says:
"I'm delighted to have the opportunity to critique the winner of Undiscovered and the option to offer them representation. A competition which is judged by readers is a promising way to discover new talent and I'm excited about seeing the shortlist"
Caroline Hogg, Commissioning editor at Avon says:
“It’s such a pleasure to be involved with the Novelicious Undiscovered competition. For years Novelicious has been championing fantastic women’s fiction and the team there sum up everything that’s best about publishing: a genuine love of good writing and the boundless energy and good humour it takes to keep trying new things. At Avon we’re always on the look-out for brilliant new voices to add to our list of stellar authors – among them bestsellers Miranda Dickinson, Trisha Ashley and Claudia Carroll – so who knows what we might find through Novelicious Undiscovered!”
Kirsty Greenwood, Founding Editor of Novelicious.com
“I am so excited to able to extend such an amazing opportunity to Britain’s aspiring writers. Novelicious is passionate about women’s fiction, and we are hopeful that the ‘Undiscovered’ competition will unearth some sparkling new talent in the genre.”
The Winner of Novelicious Undiscovered will be announced on 26th June. For full entry details and terms and conditions please visit http://www.novelicious.com/noveliciousundiscovered2012.html
You can find out how to enter here and read the Terms and Conditions of the competition here.
For all further enquiries about Novelicious Undiscovered 2012 please contact kirsty@novelicious.com
12 comments:
That's a great comp for unpublished authors, Debs - I'll mention it a few places.
Sounds like a brilliant competetion. Time to spread the word...
Sounds great, will def enter that one.
rosemary - it's wonderful, isn't it? Thanks for mentioning it to others.
mama j - Thank you and for spreading the word.
flowerpot - brilliant, I wish I could too, but as part of the team I'm not allowed to :-(
Sounds a great opportunity for many. Good luck to all.
What lovely prizes! Good luck to all the entrants!
What a great competition! Thanks, Deb, and the team at Novelicious!
Glynis, liane & talli - thank you.
Not often you see a chick lit competition - sounds great :o)
I read the first sentence and thought "nope!" but still read the rest of your posting with interest.
Hi, just found your blog through a friend's and wanted to say hi. I love your paw print background!
karen - I agree, it's a brilliant competition.
troy - I didn't think it would be your kind of 'thing', lol.
shelly - thanks for visiting. The background 'paw print' is fun, isn't it?
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