September 2019: Competition Monthly

...  Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award (Novel) Theme: Open, including children’s. 20,000 – 25,000 words of work in progress. Unpublished authors only. Prize: £10,000 / £1,000 for runners up Closing...

Joan Hessayon Award 2019 – Meet The Contenders 2

...basis for Lucy’s friendship with Brenda. I love that your best friends can be people totally different to yourself in age, background or gender. It was fun exploring this idea....

January 2021: Competition Monthly

Looking at the different prizes on offer A happy new year to you all. Here’s a question for you all to consider at the beginning of another writing year. What...

November 2019: Competition Monthly

...price. Some critique writers will give you more for your money than others, and often you won’t know if it’s worth the fee until it pops onto your mat or...

Meet The New RNA Committee

...times but also a huge privilege. I’ve been an RNA member for over 20 years, since my first Regency historical was published by Harlequin Mills & Boon. During that time...

January 2019: Competition Monthly

...with both, which I find very useful. For the competitions I might want to enter, I buy a cheap paper month-to-a-page calendar on which I write just the competition name....

New Releases: April 2021

...July 30th April Three mums . . . One quest for some peace and quiet.                   Catherine Curzon and Eleanor Harkstead: The...

Conference Speakers: Debbie Young, Self-publishing For Romantic Novelists, Sat 3-4pm

...selling top quality books. Sometimes publishers buy rights to indie authors’ whole back catalogues. Other times they invite indie authors to create new work in the same vein. Or they...

July 2018: Competition Monthly

...luck and have fun. The blog team are taking a well-earned rest in August, so see you again in September.   * Closing Soon: Retreat West Novel Prize Theme: Open....

October 2018: Competition Monthly

Make sure you always read the small print on competition rules. In the process of researching this month’s blog, I seem to have discounted more competitions than normal. This is...

June 2019: Competition Monthly

.../ $150. Both plus publication. Closing date: 20 September 2019 Entry: $15 Details   Val Wood Prize Theme: Love Letters. 1,500 words max. (Only writers not commercially published) Prize: £100...

New Releases: September

...Jennifer Howells upside down. The discovery of a secret that fractured the family in 1947 leaves her spiralling, unsure who she is. First, she travels to Cardiff and then to...