🎉 Congratulations to Katy Gullestrup on winning First Prize in the First Novel Prize 2026 🙌🎉🍾

Congratulations to Liz Isaacs on winning the Shortlist Prize in the First Novel Prize 2026! 🎉🍾🥳

🎉 We're thrilled to announce the 2026 winners in the First Novel Prize. Congratulations to Katy Gullestrup and Liz Isaacs! 🎉 Link to the annoucement in the comments. #firstnovelprize #winners #amwriting #writingcommunity

🎉 We're thrilled to announce this year's longlist. Thank you to all our 2026 entrants and congratulations to our 20 longlisted writers! Link in comments #amwriting #amediting #firstnovelprize #writingcommunity

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Longlisting in The Common Press in Shoreditch today ☕️

Longlisting in the First Novel Prize on the dreamy lakeside terrace of the Barbican today. You guys are talented✨✨✨

Can Saturdays get any better than longlisting in the First Novel Prize in Blackwell’s Oxford? No. 💙

⏰ Last chance: First Novel Prize entries close TONIGHT at 23:59 London time. New York - 18:59. LA - 15:59. Cape Town - 00:59. Sydney - 08:59. Good luck, everyone!

Entries for the First Novel Prize 2026 close on 31 May. Send us the novel you’ve been working on, carrying around, returning to, doubting, loving, refusing to give up on. Enter today: www.firstnovel.co.uk #FirstNovelPrize #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #NovelWriting

How it feels to wake up in the morning knowing you’ll discover a great new writer today ☀️ Last month to enter your novel at www.firstnovel.co.uk #firstnovelprize #amwriting #fictionwriting

🙌 100+ free entries. For writers who need them. www.firstnovel.co.uk 🙌

🌟 Thrilled to have two amazing judges this year, Sally Williamson from Transworld and Hayley Steed from Janklow & Nesbit 🌟 Send them your best work at firstnovel.co.uk

📣 Entries have opened in the 11th consecutive year of the First Novel Prize. Head over to www.firstnovel.co.uk to check out what our judges are looking for and send us your best work #amwriting #amediting #amquerying #writingcompetition #fictionwriting #firstnovelprize

Congratulations to Jason McIntyre, our First Prize winner! 🍾🥳✨🎉

Congratulations to our Shortlist Prize winner, @moyetteg.bsky.social! 🌟🎉🥳

✨ The wait is over ✨ The First Novel Prize 2025 winners have been announced! 🎉 Lots of ambition and originality in this year's entries. Our judges, Imogen Nelson & @rachelneely.bsky.social, had the tough task of choosing. See who won 👇 www.firstnovel.co.uk/first-novel-... #WritingCommunity

🎉 The 2025 First Novel Prize shortlist is here. Each of these remarkable novels-in-progress stood out for their originality and craft. Warmest congratulations to the shortlisted writers! 🌟🙌🥳

📣 Announcing the 2025 First Novel Prize longlist - all chosen from a dazzling field. Even with 20 places, the selection was agonising. So much amazing writing had to be left out. Thank you to all our entrants and many congratulations to the longlisted writers ✨ www.firstnovel.co.uk/first-novel-...

📆 Update: Our inaugural longlist is currently being finalised and it will be released tomorrow, the 21st of August, around 1pm London time ⌛ ✨

For the first time, the First Novel Prize will have a longlist, and we can’t wait to share it with you 📚✨ We’re now aiming for: Longlist: 20 Aug 2025 Shortlist: 31 Aug 2025 Winners: 15 Sep 2025 Thank you for bearing with us while we give every entry the time, care and attention it deserves ❤️

Congrats to @ruebaldry.bsky.social, who won our First Prize in 2024. Now her novel Dwell is being published by @NorthodoxPress.bsky.social Read more at www.firstnovel.co.uk/first-novel-... 📚 Entries for 2025 close tonight at midnight BST #debutnovel #historicalfiction #writingcommunity #bookdeal

🚨 The First Novel Prize 2025 closes Saturday at midnight (London time) ⏳ 🗽 NY – 7pm 🌴 LA – 4pm 🌆 Mumbai – 4:30am Sun 🌏 Sydney – 9am Sun You’ve got time, but not much. Up to 5,000 words. One shot. Enter now: www.firstnovel.co.uk #amwriting #FirstNovelPrize #writingcommunity #literaryagent

📚 A glimpse at the novels that started their journey with the First Novel Prize ✨ Your story next? 💥 Submit up to 5,000 words at www.firstnovel.co.uk 🕰️ Deadline: 31 May 2025 ✍️ Open to all unpublished and independently published novelists in English #FirstNovelPrize #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

📚 Say hello to @rachelneely.bsky.social, literary agent at powerhouse Mushens Entertainment + judge for the First Novel Prize 2025! ✨✨✨ Got unforgettable fiction? ✨ Submit up to 5,000 words at www.firstnovel.co.uk ⌛ Entries close 31 May #FirstNovelPrize #amwriting #amquerying #writingcommunity

Not only two amazing judges 😍 but two amazing prizes too 🤩 Good luck, everyone! 🍀🌟 www.firstnovel.co.uk #firstnovelprize #amwriting #amediting #amquerying #writingcompetition

Transworld editor Imogen Nelson is one of our judges this year and she can’t wait to read your entries. Got up to 5,000 words? Submit now at 👉 www.firstnovel.co.uk 📚 Open to unpublished novelists in English worldwide 🕰️ Deadline: 31 May 2025 #amwriting #writingcommunity #fiction #amquerying

🌟 We're thrilled to have the amazing @rachelneely.bsky.social, from Mushens Entertainment and Imogen Nelson from Transworld as our judges this year. We can't wait to see which new fiction captures their attention🌟 #FirstNovelPrize #DebutFiction #WritingCommunity #amwriting

🎉 Celebrating 10 years 🎉 Entries open to unpublished and independently published novelists. Up to 5,000 words, two amazing prizes, two amazing judges 🌟 Send us your best writing today at www.firstnovel.co.uk