#Merky Books is the home for a new generation of readers, and a new generation of writers. Our aim is to provide a platform for the best new voices of today, and to seek out and publish talented young writers from all backgrounds.
This year, we are excited to launch the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, a competition to connect with young writers from across the UK and ROI, and find a new work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry to publish. The prize is launched in collaboration with The Good Literary Agency and First Story.
The winner will receive a publishing contract with #Merky Books, as well as representation from The Good Literary Agency. Shortlisted writers will also be invited to a special event in London, including writing workshops, presentations from Penguin Random House authors, and personalised one-on-one feedback.
The prize will also help to give everyone who applies the tools, information and access they need to develop their ideas, progress their writing and set off on the path to publication.
We’re looking for unpublished writers aged between 16 and 30 who are currently resident in the UK or Eire. If you have a manuscript you are working on, or an idea ready to be put onto paper, we want to hear from you. We are looking for writers telling the stories that are not being heard, and the stories that deserve to be read, whether in fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
Find out more here
Deadline: midnight, 12 April 2019