16 January 2023
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The competition for first-time prose writers has a £10,000 prize
The DRF Writers Award from the Deborah Rogers Foundation for writers within the British Commonwealth and Eire invites submissions of 15,000-20,000 words of a work in progress, which may be fiction or non-fiction, by debut UK authors. To be eligible, writers must not previously have published or self published a full-length prose book, and must not be agented or under contract to a publisher. Entrants may have published a poetry collection.
The winner will receive £10,000 and each runner up will receive £1,000. This years judges are Abdulrazak Gurnah (Chair), Claire Adam and Annalena McAfee.
Include a synopsis and brief biographical note with each entry.
The closing date is 31 March.
For full details see the website.
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