The Bath Novel Award is an international prize for emerging novelists writing for adults or young adults.
Recipients:
Kate Simants (2019) for The Knocks (Viper Books 2020)
Abi Darè (2018) for The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hodder & Stoughton 2020)
Sophie Draper (2017) for Cuckoo (Avon Books 2018)
Kim Sherwood (2016) for Testament (riverrun 2018)
Clarissa Goenawan (2015) for Rainbirds (Soho Press 2017)
Joanna Barnard (2014) for Precocious (Ebury Press 2015)
Closing date: 31 May 2020
Prize: £3,000
Judge: Jenny Savill, Director at Andrew Nurnberg Associates international literary agency
Eligibility: unpublished, self-published and independently published writers worldwide. Full terms & eligibility
Shortlist prize: manuscript feedback and literary agent introductions
Longlist prize: the writer of the most promising longlisted manuscript will receive an online place worth £1,800 on Edit Your Novel the Professional Way from Cornerstones Literary Consultancy
Submissions: first 5,000 words plus one page synopsis of novel manuscripts in any genre
Entry fee: £28 with sponsored places available for writers on low income
