The Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize
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Now going into its twelfth year, the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize is famous for helping undiscovered female writers launch their literary careers. Founded in 2010, by Professor Janet Todd OBE, the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize has gone from strength to strength with many shortlisted and winning authors securing publishing deals and furthering their writing. The Prize has developed a formidable reputation for attracting first-class writing talent and as such judges are seeking entries that combine literary merit with 'unputdownability.'
Prize ceremony
This annual occasion has been instrumental in introducing previous winners to their respective agents, and allows attendees to mingle with industry specialists.
Free consultation with literary agent
All shortlisted entrants receive a valuable half-hour one-to-one consultation with our competition sponsors PFD (subject to them not already having an agent) who will give editorial feedback and discuss the marketability of the work submitted. In addition, the 2022 winner will receive a cash prize of £1,500.
Enter the 2022 Fiction Prize.
This annual occasion has been instrumental in introducing previous winners to their respective agents, and allows attendees to mingle with industry specialists.
Free consultation with literary agent
All shortlisted entrants receive a valuable half-hour one-to-one consultation with our competition sponsors PFD (subject to them not already having an agent) who will give editorial feedback and discuss the marketability of the work submitted. In addition, the 2022 winner will receive a cash prize of £1,500.
Enter the 2022 Fiction Prize.
Sara Collins was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize in 2016 and has now published her novel The Confessions of Frannie Langton. Sara says: “Little did I know when I was shortlisted that within two years I’d have signed with an agent, finished the novel, and agreed book deals in several territories as well as a TV option. I’m still pinching myself.”
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The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2022 is now open for entries.
Deadline for low-income writers submissions: Wednesday 9th February 2022 – 12 noon.
Deadline for paid submissions: Friday 11th February 2022 - 12 noon. Read about the 2021 shortlist here.
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Huge congratulations to Megan Davis winner of the
2021 Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize with The Messenger. Tim Bates, from our valued literary sponsor, Peter Fraser Dunlop, comments on this year winner: "This year's shortlist was of a uniformly high-quality and it was incredibly hard to choose a winner. But Megan Davis's The Messenger stood out for its style and confidence, and its compelling portrait of family relations. It is a gripping and cool literary thriller, that cleverly manages to be both a why- and who-dunnit." |
About the Prize
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The Fiction Prize is for a novel by a woman over the age of 18 that marries literary merit with unputdownability. The work can be on any subject at all. We welcome submissions of literary fiction and genre fiction equally. Novels for young adults or children are acceptable if they are mainly word-based; picture books are excluded.
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