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First Graphic Novel Award

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Closing date: 
14 September 2023
Entry: 
UK residents only. Entry fee £10
Prize: 
First option for publication

The Award is open to all UK comics creators, cartoonists, and artists and writers working as a team, who do not have an agent and have not had a full-length graphic work commercially published. You can be age 18 or 100, or anything in between. You must be resident in the UK.  Read more

Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2020

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Closing date: 
28 February 2020
Entry: 
Open to all cartoonists, and writers and artists working as a team, who have not previously published a full-length graphic work and are resident in the UK. Entry fee £10
Prize: 
Publication on the Myriad list

Myriad has launched its 2020 First Graphic Novel Competition, and has signed two authors who have been on the competition shortlist.

The competition invites authors to submit 15 to 30 pages of a graphic novel in progress, fiction or non-fiction. The closing date is 28 February. First prize is publication on the Myriad list.  Read more

2014 First Fictions Graphic Novel Competition

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Closing date: 
3 March 2014
Entry: 
Open to all cartoonists, writers and artists who have not previously published a full-length graphic work and are resident in the UK.
Prize: 
The chance to work with Myriad’s creative and editorial team, with a view to contract and publication. They will also be offered a week-long author’s retreat in a studio near Angouleme, France

Novelist Meg Rosoff is among the judges for the 2014 First Fictions First Graphic Novel Competition, launched on 25th November by Myriad EditionsOnline image bank of infographics from The State of the World Atlas by Dan Smith. Useful resource for students, academics, teachers, journalists and businesses, the store will soon contain maps and graphics from their entire State of the World Atlas series. Download via Paypal, low resolution images start at $1 and high resolution images from $50..

The Brighton-based independent publisher founded the biennial competition in 2012 to provide opportunities for cartoonists, writers and artists who have not previously published a full-length graphic work.  Read more

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