The Authors’ Club is looking for submissions for the Best First Novel Award. The 2017 prize is open to any debut novel written in English and published in the UK between 1 January and 31 December 2016, with one important exception: novels first published in another country of origin will not be considered.
The prize exists to support UK-based authors, publishers and agents, so the novel must originate in the UK and not have been published anywhere else in the world before its UK publication date. Debuts published simultaneously elsewhere will be considered if the author and primary agent are UK-based. There’s no age limit, the authors don’t have to be British, and they can have published other books before, as long as this is their first novel. Non-British/Irish authors who do not live in the UK or Ireland are excluded.
Authors who have already published a novel or novels, may not enter as a debut a title written under a pseudonym. All imprints may submit two titles. The deadline for submissions is 9 September 2016.
For more information email Lucy Popescu at [email protected].
The longlist is announced in March 2017 and the shortlist in April 2017. The prizegiving will take place in June 2017.