Win A Hardback Book A Month For Life

Win a book a month, for free, FOR LIFE! Yes really! Enter by 31 Oct to win a #AYearinBooks life subscription https://t.co/UCGm1bcwmJ #books pic.twitter.com/qVOWy7UYe5

— Heywood Hill (@HeywoodHill) 28 October 2017

Fall Fiction Contest

Fall Fiction Contest $2000 + publication + story review. Ann + @jeffvandermeer! Submit here: https://t.co/EtT2wOBuAy pic.twitter.com/yeKbaWK4pV

— The Masters Review (@MastersReview) October 8, 2015

Super Thursday: Books Are My Bag (competition)

It's @booksaremybag, hooray! Enter to win a bunch of Super Thursday books and a #BAMB tote: http://t.co/ea0wNKzSl8 pic.twitter.com/P1Hgp9p1cU

— National Book Tokens (@book_tokens) October 8, 2015

New competition to find ‘The People’s Novelist’

An exciting new competition for aspiring writers!

HarperCollins and ITV’s The Alan Titchmarsh Show have launched a competition to find 'The People's Novelist'.

The Alan Titchmarsh show is currently off-air but will be returning soon.

Cathy Kelly, one of the UK's bestselling authors, will be working with the show to help discover new talent.

The winner will receive a publishing deal with HarperCollins Publishers and an advance of £10,000.


Alan Titchmarsh - People's Novelist Competition : Full terms and conditions

Agatha Christie's 120th anniversary

You could hardly miss the fact that today is Agatha Christie 120th birthday anniversary because Google has marked the event with a special Google Doodle.
[link via Telegraph]

The famous British mystery writer is (aptly) called the 'Queen of Crime' and to celebrate Agatha Christie's 120th anniversary you can bake her a special birthday cake created by Jane Asher! The recipe for Delicious Death cake is inspired by a passage in one of the Miss Marple books, her 50th novel, A Murder is Announced.

You can also enter this cool competition: Win Every Christie Novel In Your Language
Entry only via registering to www.agathachristie.com and leaving your answer to the multiple choice question on the specified forum page.

Christie Week 2010

New Literary Competition Launched in UK

The UK based internet publishing website abook2read.com has launched its inaugural literary competition.

The top prize this year is £1,000 and a three year rolling contract with abook2read.com.

You can enter by post or online.

The minimum length of submissions is 40,000 words and the maximum length is 180,000 words. Stories can be on any fictional subject.

Prize Details 2010

Closing date for entries is 30th of September 2010