Daily Mail First Novel Award

The Daily Mail and Transworld Publishers have joined forces to launch this new prize for a first novel.

Closing date 2 July 2007

Open to all residents of the UK and the Republic of Ireland over the age of 16.

The prize for the Daily Mail First Novel Award will be a publishing contract with Transworld Publishers, a division of Random House UK, and an advance of £30,000. Transworld will publish the winning work in the spring of 2008.

Submissions are invited of a complete novel in the English language of no less than 80,000 words and no more than 150,000 words, together with a synopsis.

The involvement of the Daily Mail is likely to ensure that the Prize will be well-publicised. Transworld is one of the most successful commercial publishers in the UK.

For more information and entry details go to: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/books/

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