{"id":4909,"date":"2019-01-15T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2019-01-16T05:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T13:59:38","slug":"10000-novel-writing-contest-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/10000-novel-writing-contest-international\/","title":{"rendered":"$40,000 Novel Writing Contest (International)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is open to writers around the world for the best adventure novel written in English.<\/p>\n<p>They offer two prizes: \u00a315,000 (around $20,000 USD) for the best unpublished adventure novel by a debut author, and \u00a315,000 for the best published novel.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a total of \u00a330,000, or aroud $40,000 USD.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big benefits of this contest: If you&#8217;ve previously self-published a novel, it is still eligible for the &#8220;unpublished manuscript&#8221; prize. This is unusual, as most publishers actively avoid any type of previously published work.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t win one of the grand prizes, if you&#8217;re shortlisted, you get to work with an established literary consultant for three months &#8212; giving you a huge advantage in your writing career.<\/p>\n<p>According to their website, and adventure novel should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Take\u00a0the reader on an epic journey, exploring new horizons \u2013 be they historical or geographical<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Explore\u00a0the themes of courage, endurance and resourcefulness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Allow\u00a0readers to connect with a different reality or culture<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deadline for the contest is March 1st, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, read their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org\/page\/awards\">submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is open to writers around the world for the best adventure novel written in English. They offer two prizes: \u00a315,000 (around $20,000 USD) for the best unpublished adventure novel by a debut author, and \u00a315,000 for the best published novel. That&#8217;s a total of \u00a330,000, or aroud $40,000 USD&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}