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Mslexia Women's Memoir Competition 2014

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Closing date: 
22 September 2014
Entry: 
Women from any country who have not published a memoir, but may have published something else, are eligible Entry fee £25
Prize: 
£5,000

The competition is for full-length memoirs from unpublished women memoirists. To be eligible a memoir must be at least 50,000 words and narrate actual events from the writer's own life. To enter the competition, send up to 5,000 words - which must be the first 5,000 words of the memoir.

First Prize £5,000

Five other finalists will receive manuscript feedback from The Literary Consultancy and be invited to a special networking event with literary agents.
Judging panel: Julie Myerson (memoirist, novelist), Jenny Brown (literary agent), Jane Martinson (Women's Editor, Guardian)
Closing date: 22 September 2014

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Closing date: 
22 September 2014
Entry: 
Women from any country who have not published a memoir, but may have published something else, are eligible Entry fee £25
Prize: 
£5,000