Searchlight Awards – Best Novel Opening

Searchlight Awards – Best Novel Opening for Children or Young Adults is open to all writers over the age of 16.

Closing date: 22nd August 2022.

Entry fee: £14 per story.

1st Prize: £1000.

10 shortlisted stories will feature in the Winners’ Collection and will also be published in an annual printed anthology.

Word limit: the first 1,200 words of a longer novel.

Full details here.

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