International prizes for emerging writers
✨The Bath Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 31 May
✨The Bath Children's Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 30 Nov
www.bathnovelaward.co.uk
The Bath Novel Awards
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It's been a difficult few months, with family bereavements, rain and disturbing local elections in the UK, but there has been one good thing. Out of Nowhere, which won the @bathnovelaward.co.uk in 2023, will published by @saltpublishing.com in February 2027: www.saltpublishing.com/products/out...
🎉Happy publication day to BCNA Longlist Prize-winner Louise Austin, whose hilarious debut ALEX ABBOTT IS [UN]DEAD is out today!
Wednesday meets Loki, it's the fang-tastically funny diary of a reluctant vampire aged 11½ and iIllustrated throughout by Katie Kear www.amazon.co.uk/Alex-Abbott-...
🔏And that's a wrap for the Bath Novel Award 2026 entries!
Thank you to all entrants — we can't wait to discover this year's longlist, TBA Tuesday 30 June. Good luck everyone!
What do literary agents look for in a novel synopsis? Ten agents who have judged the Bath Novel Awards offer their advice.
advice/https://bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-novel-synopsis-ten-literary-agents-offer-their-advice/
🔔Last chance to enter the Bath Novel Award 2026!
🕛 Entries close TONIGHT at 23:59 British Summer Time
📤Submit: <5k words opening & one-page synopsis
🏆Prize: £5,000
🌍Open to unagented emerging authors everywhere
#writingsky #booksky #writingcommunity #writersky
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🎉Happy Canadian Publication Day to @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social for THE LOVELY DARK, a beautifully moving and breathtakingly original story of bravery and second chances, for readers aged 9+.
Read about his passion for magical seriousness in children's books at bathnovelaward.co.uk/2023/07/05/s...
🔔Don't miss the deadline!
🌍The Bath Novel Award 2026 is for unagented emerging authors worldwide
⏱️Deadline: 31st May
🏆Prize: £5,000
👩⚖️Judge: Amanda Harris of Maven Literary
📤Submit: <5k words opening & one-page synopsis of adult or YA novel manuscripts
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Could 2026 be YOUR year?
A stellar list of Bath Novel Award laureates and listees have gone on to find agents and publishing success. You next?
Open to emerging writers everywhere, with a £5k prize and lit agent Amanda Harris judging.
Closes 31 May #booksky
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A man escapes a prison van in the Australian outback and walks towards the one thing he has left: his daughter. Frank Neely is a thief, a drifter, a man God won
Established in 2013 in the UNESCO city of Bath, the Bath Novel Award is a prestigious and highly-respected international prize for novels by emerging authors.
Interview: MATTHEW FOX on the magical seriousness of writing The Lovely Dark (Hodder, 2023) and why he hopes his readers know they are braver than they think.
Established in 2013 in the UNESCO city of Bath, the Bath Novel Award is a prestigious and highly-respected international prize for novels by emerging authors.
'Tune out any doom and gloom in the industry – humans connect through stories and publishers need to publish books.'
Lots of great advice in this Q&A with literary agent Amanda Harris, who is judging the Bath Novel Award 2026.
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AMANDA HARRIS is Literary Agent of the Year and the founder of Maven Literary Management. As judge, Amanda will decide the winner of the Bath Novel Award 2026.
Louise tells us how winning helped her to find her agent, and what she's learned as a classroom assistant about the books kids love to read in this publication day interview 👇
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Longlist Prize winner and debut children's author Louise Austin on writing her hilarious debut, Alex Abbott is [Un]Dead (Macmillan, April 2026)
