As part of its 120^th birthday celebrations, Curtis Brown – in partnership with Curtis Brown Creative – has launched the inaugural Curtis Brown First Novel Prize

The author of the winning novel will be offered representation by Curtis Brown plus a prize of £3,000, while the first runner-up will receive a place on a three-month novel-writing course at Curtis Brown Creative, and a mentoring session with one of the Curtis Brown literary agent team. A further four shortlisted entrants will be offered a place on a six-week online course with Curtis Brown Creative and a mentoring session with one of the Curtis Brown literary agent team.

Deadline

Midday on 1^st August 2019.

The shortlisted titles will be announced in September. Tracy Chevalier will select the overall winner and runner-up, who will be revealed on 10th October.

Guidelines 

• Anyone can enter so long as they’re 18 or over, writing a novel in English and resident in the UK or Ireland.
• Entrants should not currently be represented by a literary agent, and novels must be unpublished.
• If you have self-published your work, you are very welcome to enter
• The novel can be in any genre but must be aimed at adults rather than young adults or children.
• Full terms and conditions are posted here.

To enter 

• Send us the opening (up to) 10,000 words of your novel (including any prologue) and a one-page synopsis of up to 400 words.
• Novels do not need to be finished before you enter the competition, but you should be able to summarise in your synopsis the main plot of your work-in-progress.

https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/first-novel-prize/