Good Housekeeping launches £25k novel competition

01.12.11 | Benedicte Page - The Bookseller

Good Housekeeping has launched a £25,000 competition for budding novelists in association with Orion and agent Luigi Bonomi.
The competition appears in the magazine's January issue, which goes on sale today (1st December).
Good Housekeeping is looking for previously unpublished writers in any genre apart from children's, with first prize a £25,000 advance, help from the Orion editorial team and Bonomi, and the chance to have the winning book published with coverage in the magazine.
The judges will include Kate Mosse, Bonomi, Orion fiction publishing director Kate Mills and Good Housekeeping editorial director Lindsay Nicholson.
Nicholson said the magazine was "looking forward to discovering the UK's next big literary talent". Mills commented: "I'm always meeting writers who are feverishly working away in isolation and this is a fantastic opportunity to get that hard work read and recognised, with a great prize."