“I’m delighted that the Exeter Novel Prize is now an established part of our city’s cultural calendar.”
Rt Hon. Ben Bradshaw M.P.
Rt Hon. Ben Bradshaw M.P.
The 2021 Exeter Novel Prize
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First prize - £500 (kindly donated by Exeter Writers) plus trophy
Five runners-up will receive £100 and a paperweight We accept the first ten thousand words including synopsis of a novel that has not been accepted for publication by a traditional publishing house. It is open to all authors who are without representation by a literary agent at the closing date, whether or not they have been published.
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Our thanks once again to Kate Nash of the Kate Nash Literary Agency who read the long list and chose the short list of six and finally our winner. Her comments on all the shortlisted novels are HERE
Winner
Thirteenth Night - Amita Murray
Huge congratulations to Amita for winning the 2021 Exeter Novel Prize. Literary agent Kate Nash had to choose from a strong list but it was the entertaining and compelling mystery Thirteen Night that rose to the top.
Thirteenth Night - Amita Murray
Huge congratulations to Amita for winning the 2021 Exeter Novel Prize. Literary agent Kate Nash had to choose from a strong list but it was the entertaining and compelling mystery Thirteen Night that rose to the top.
Highly Commended
In the Shelter of Each Other – Tracey McEvoy
The Candidate’s Husband – Wendy Sacks Jones
In the Shelter of Each Other – Tracey McEvoy
The Candidate’s Husband – Wendy Sacks Jones
Short List
Congratulations to our six finalists on this short list. It is a great achievement to get this far. We had over four hundred entries and hard choices had to be made at every stage.
In the Shelter of Each Other – Tracey McEvoy
Ten Miles of You – Emma Albrighton
The Candidate’s Husband – Wendy Sacks Jones
The Ground You Walk On – Jacqueline Gittens
The Profile – David Goldstein
Thirteenth Night – Amita Murray
Congratulations to our six finalists on this short list. It is a great achievement to get this far. We had over four hundred entries and hard choices had to be made at every stage.
In the Shelter of Each Other – Tracey McEvoy
Ten Miles of You – Emma Albrighton
The Candidate’s Husband – Wendy Sacks Jones
The Ground You Walk On – Jacqueline Gittens
The Profile – David Goldstein
Thirteenth Night – Amita Murray
Long List
- Amelia Borgiotti – Patrick ten Brink
- A Script for Buried Voices – L M Rees
- Blood Machines – J K Gravier
- Bluebeard’s Theatre – Teika Marija Smits
- Dead Clever – Finn Clarke
- Destitute at the Grand Hotel – Tania Brassey
- Don’t Argue with Your Chinese Mother – Karen Yu
- Gertrude – Emma Clark Lam
- Guilty Secrets – Sandy Norris
- Hope – Melanie Woods
- How to be alive in 2035 – Rose Stevens
- In the shelter of each other – Tracey McEvoy
- Let these things be written – Fiona Whyte
- Mouthing – Orla Mackey
- Raised as Wolves – James Blair
- Silverfish – Hannah Colby
- Ten Miles of You – Emma Albrighton
- The Accidental Time Traveller – Sylvia Bluck
- The Botanist – Mary Clarke
- The Candidate’s Husband – Wendy Sacks Jones
- The Deconstruction of Fern Sutter – Jenna Robinson
- The Fabulators – Gerry Duffy
- The Ground You Walk On – Jacqueline Gittens
- The Killer Question – Tom Belcher
- The Inheritance – Lauren Evans
- The Maids of Biddenden – G D Harper
- The Man who got out of Japan – Sophie Neville
- The Profile – David Goldstein
- The Small Museum – Jody Cooksley
- Thirteenth Night – Amita Murray
Appraisals - for those who paid the extra fee, these will be sent out in the next few days. There are quite a lot so please be patient.
Here are some of the responses from last year:
Here are some of the responses from last year:
- I was really concerned about it and this feedback has assuaged those fears entirely. All of this was so helpful and has given me a ton of great feedback to play with. Hilary Koss
- The notes will be of great help to me as I edit the first draft. I do like her keen insights. Dave Sievers
- Thank you so much for your thoughtful and constructive report - this is incredibly helpful and gives me so much fantastic feedback to work on. Hannah Priest
- It's extremely helpful, and has really identified some areas for me to focus on as I go through the next round of edits, so thank you! Kate Stratford
Rules
1. The 2021 Exeter Novel Prize is open for submissions until 11.59pm on January 1st 2022, which is without exception the closing date. Any entries received after this date will be disqualified and no refund of the entry fee will be made.
2. The competition is open to everyone, living anywhere in the world, published, self-published or yet to be published, who does not gain representation by a literary agent, and who does not receive a contract from a commercial publisher by the closing date.
3. Entries should take the form of the opening of your novel (not a random selection of scenes) and must not exceed a total of ten thousand words, which includes a synopsis of not more than five hundred words e.g. 9,500 words of the novel and a 500 word synopsis). Any entries received without a synopsis will be disqualified. Entries must be the author’s own work. The novel does not have to be complete. Self-published novels are acceptable.
4. You may enter more than one novel, but each entry must be emailed separately and must be accompanied by a separate entry fee.
5. All genres excluding children’s, but including Young Adult and New Adult, are acceptable.
6. Only doc, docx and rtf files will be accepted. Any other formats will be disqualified. Please present your work in 12pt Times New Roman or Arial, 1.5 or double-spaced. The attachment file title should be the same as your novel title and the same as it appears in the subject line of your email (minus ENP). Your name should not appear anywhere on the attachment.
7. Entries must be in English.
8. Entrants must be over 18 years of age.
9. Entry must be made electronically and the fee paid via Paypal. The prize monies will be awarded via Paypal. The receipt issued by Paypal on payment of the entry fee is your receipt of entry. See How to Enter below. If you do not already have a Paypal account, please visit www.paypal.com for details.
10. Literary agent Kate Nash of the Kate Nash Literary Agency will be the final judge. Although the organisers hope the winning entrant will achieve publication, no guarantee of agent representation or publication can be given.
11. The decision of the judges is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
1. The 2021 Exeter Novel Prize is open for submissions until 11.59pm on January 1st 2022, which is without exception the closing date. Any entries received after this date will be disqualified and no refund of the entry fee will be made.
2. The competition is open to everyone, living anywhere in the world, published, self-published or yet to be published, who does not gain representation by a literary agent, and who does not receive a contract from a commercial publisher by the closing date.
3. Entries should take the form of the opening of your novel (not a random selection of scenes) and must not exceed a total of ten thousand words, which includes a synopsis of not more than five hundred words e.g. 9,500 words of the novel and a 500 word synopsis). Any entries received without a synopsis will be disqualified. Entries must be the author’s own work. The novel does not have to be complete. Self-published novels are acceptable.
4. You may enter more than one novel, but each entry must be emailed separately and must be accompanied by a separate entry fee.
5. All genres excluding children’s, but including Young Adult and New Adult, are acceptable.
6. Only doc, docx and rtf files will be accepted. Any other formats will be disqualified. Please present your work in 12pt Times New Roman or Arial, 1.5 or double-spaced. The attachment file title should be the same as your novel title and the same as it appears in the subject line of your email (minus ENP). Your name should not appear anywhere on the attachment.
7. Entries must be in English.
8. Entrants must be over 18 years of age.
9. Entry must be made electronically and the fee paid via Paypal. The prize monies will be awarded via Paypal. The receipt issued by Paypal on payment of the entry fee is your receipt of entry. See How to Enter below. If you do not already have a Paypal account, please visit www.paypal.com for details.
10. Literary agent Kate Nash of the Kate Nash Literary Agency will be the final judge. Although the organisers hope the winning entrant will achieve publication, no guarantee of agent representation or publication can be given.
11. The decision of the judges is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
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