Description
Lightship Publishing is an independent publishing company based in Hull, United Kingdom. They aim to promote and develop new writers and publish their literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry and dramatic writing. To discover new voices they run an annual international writing award, Lightship First Novel Prize, in partnership with the highly successful independent publisher Alma Books. Entrants have the chance to win a publishing contract with Alma Books.The publisher has first refusal on purchasing the worldwide publishing rights of the winning First Novel, and may offer an advance of up to £4,000.
Eligibility
First novel is open to writers of any nationality writing in English. There is no restriction on genre, theme or style. Writers must be 16 years of age or over to enter the competition and must not have had a novel published before in book format, either self-published or published by any publishing company.
Deadline: 31 January 2014
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