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The Bath Novel Award 2025
Deadline: Sat 31 May 2025
The Bath Novel Award is a £5,000 international prize for emerging authors of adult and YA manuscripts in every genre. The prize is open to writers of every age, gender, nationality and residency who are unagented, unpublished, self-published or independently published without advance.

The winner of the Bath Novel Award 2025 will be announced in September 2025 and awarded £5,000 along with our beautiful Minerva trophy, inspired by the iconic sculpture in Bath’s Roman Baths.

Shortlisted writers win a compilation of award readers’ comments on their full manuscripts.

Longlisted writers win a compilation of award readers’ comments on their extract and synopsis.

One longlistee will also win a place worth £1,980 on the 18-week virtual course Edit Your Novel the Professional Way, courtesy of Cornerstones Literary Consultancy and the Professional Writing Academy.

Entry fee: £29.99 Sponsored places available for writers on a low income.

Find out more here

Deadline: 31 May 2025 at 23:59 BST

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