#Final draft contest 2013 pdf#
The shortlisted writers will also take part in a studio session focused on writing and recording for audio with Audible.
#Final draft contest 2013 plus#
One promising writer, named the ‘Discoveries Scholar’, will also win a free scholarship to attend a three-month Writing Your Novel course with Curtis Brown Creative.Īll six shortlisted authors will be offered a mentoring session with a Curtis Brown agent, plus a free place on a six-week online writing course with Curtis Brown Creative. The winner will be offered representation by Curtis Brown Literary Agency and a cash prize of £5,000.
Please read our Terms and Conditions here. The prize will accept novels in any genre of adult fiction and entrants will be required to submit only the first 10,000 words of their novel with a synopsis of up to 1,000 words (but if you can, keep it shorter than that – 500 words is plenty).ĭiscoveries 2023 is now closed for entries. The longlist and shortlist will be announced in May 2023, and the winner in June 2023.Submissions are open from 26 September 2022 until 11:59pm on 15 January 2023.We would also like to encourage applications from writers who have previously submitted to the prize and have continued working on their story. We're looking for writing that shows real potential, not necessarily polished drafts. The prize doesn’t require writers to have finished a novel – only to have started one – and it is free to enter. She was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to literature and women and was named Woman of the Year for her service to the arts in the Everywoman Awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.ĭiscoveries invites all unpublished women writers aged 18 and up, currently residing in the UK or Ireland and writing in English, to submit their works of adult fiction to the Discoveries Prize. A champion of women’s creativity, Kate is the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction – the largest annual celebration of women’s writing in the world – and sits on the Executive Committee of Women of the World. Her novel for Quick Reads, The Black Mountain, came out in April 2022 and she’s one of twelve writers contributing a story to a new Miss Marple Collection of Short Stories – Marple – publishing in September 2022. She has also written three others works of non-fiction – including An Extra Pair of Hands (Wellcome Collection, 2021) – four plays, contributed essays and introductions to classic novels and collections. Her latest book, part detective story, part family history and part dictionary of 1000 women missing from history - Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World - will publish in October 2022.
Her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. Kate is the author of nine novels & short story collections, including the No 1 bestselling The Joubert Family Chronicles – The Burning Chambers and The City of Tears – as well as the multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy – Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel – and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter, which she adapted for the stage for 2022. Kate Mosse is the chair of the 2023 Discoveries judging panel.
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