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.