Calling all budding science fiction writers! To celebrate the opening of Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination, we’re joining forces with major publisher Hodder & Stoughton to launch a new writing prize.
Please note that the deadline for the Science Fiction Debuts Writing Prize has now passed.
From Arthur C Clarke to Octavia Butler, from Star Wars to Dune, science fiction creators have long imagined and built new worlds to better understand our own.
This summer we’re championing science fiction writers and hope to uncover exciting new talent across the country. Submissions are now open for the inaugural Science Fiction Debuts Prize.
The prize
First place
- £4,000
- A full critique of your work
- A six-month-long mentoring programme with Hodderscape Editorial Director Molly Powell
- An introduction to three literary agents
Runner up
- £2,000
- A full critique of your work submitted
The rest of the shortlist will receive a cash prize of £800, and feedback from the judging panel.
How to enter
- Writers can submit their entries via the Hodderscape website
- Submissions close at midnight on 30 September 2022.
- Applicants will be able to submit entries of 10,000 words consisting of the opening of a novel that fits into the science fiction genre and a 500-word synopsis
- Writers must be unpublished and not represented by a literary agent, and residents of the United Kingdom
- A shortlist will be announced at the Science Museum’s Lates on 26 October 2022, and the winner will be selected in January 2023 by a panel of well-known SF authors and industry figures.
