The Oxford Pushkin Children's Fantasy Prize

The Oxford Pushkin Children's Fantasy Prize is a new prize.

The Oxford Centre for Fantasy is collaborating with Pushkin Children's Books, an imprint of award-winning London-based publisher Pushkin Press, who aim to bring the world's greatest stories to young readers, with a list full of tales to enchant, inspire and open up new horizons.

Calling all fantasy novelists at the beginning of their career to a new adventure. To mark this 50th Anniversary year since the death of J R R Tolkien, we are looking for fresh ideas and new voices in the fantasy genre. This is your chance to win our brilliant prize of £2000, as well as the incredible opportunity for mentorship with an editor at Pushkin Children's Books.

Four runners-up will win further prizes to help them develop their writing skills.

It is time to polish up that manuscript you have been working on! Competition will be intense, so you'll need to grab your reader's attention from the beginning.

We will be looking for finalists writing novels for the following reading ages:

Middle grade (9+) and Young Adult.

https://oxfordcentreforfantasy.org/fantasyprize