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The Novella Award 2015

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Closing date: 
15 June 2015
Entry: 
Open to any writer in the English-speaking world Entry fee £17
Prize: 
1st Prize £1,000 and publication by Sandstone Press, Runner Up: £500 and a reader’s report

Welcome to The Novella Award, a writing competition that celebrates new fiction in the novella form.

This year the award is judged by Alison Moore, award winning author of The Lighthouse and He Wants, and Nicholas Royle, editor at Salt Publishing. The competition has previously been judged by Jenn Ashworth author of The Friday Gospels.

The Novella Award is open to any unpublished novella between 20,000 and 40,000 words in length, and to any writer in the English-speaking world.

Entry fee: £17

The Novella Award (formerly the MMU Novella Award) was launched in 2014. The venture is a partnership between Liverpool John Moores University's Screen School; Manchester Metropolitan University's Department of Contemporary Arts; Sandstone Press; Time To Read (a forum of 21 library authorities in the North West of England); and NAWE, the National Association of Writers in Education

A professional association supporting creative writing of all genres and in all educational settings throughout the UK. They support writers in education, in universities and in the community, and have useful resources, training and job opportunities plus the Artscape directory. www.nawe.co.uk

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Closing date: 
15 June 2015
Entry: 
Open to any writer in the English-speaking world Entry fee £17
Prize: 
1st Prize £1,000 and publication by Sandstone Press, Runner Up: £500 and a reader’s report