The Center for Fiction has just announced its shortlist for the 2021 First Novel Prize. The seven titles were selected from a longlist of twenty-seven debut novels, all published in the US between January 1 to December 21. The prize, first established in 2006, celebrates the best debut fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-28 17:25:35 UTC ]
Flipped eye has landed Only This Once Are You Immaculate, the "stunning" debut fiction novel by Zimbabwean author Blessing Musariri. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-23 22:23:11 UTC ]
Debut novelists performed solidly last year, despite widespread fears that they would lose out to more established authors due to 2020's pandemic-hit publishing schedules. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-14 13:16:53 UTC ]
Today the Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for its 2020 First Novel Prize. The prize, first awarded in 2006, recognizes the best debut fiction of the year, and it comes with $15,000; each finalist receives $1,000. Previous winners include De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Tommy Orange, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-01 15:05:06 UTC ]
Indie presses dominate this year’s shortlist for the Collyer Bristow Prize 2019 for debut fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-11 13:55:09 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired The Impossible Boy, the debut children’s fiction title from Ben Brooks, who wrote Stories For Boys Who Dare To Be Different for Quercus. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-28 04:12:17 UTC ]
Literary periodical The London Magazine is launching a new literary award for debuts in partnership with law firm Collyer Bristow. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Claire Fuller has won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015 for her novel Our Endless Numbered Days (Fig Tree). Our Endless Numbered Days was described by chair of the judges Louise Doughty as "both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jessie Burton’s [pictured] novel The Miniaturist (Picador) and Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing (Viking) are among 10 novels longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015. The award celebrates the best debut fiction of the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The longlist for the sixth Desmond Elliott Prize, which honours the best in debut fiction, is unveiled, with seven of the 10 novels by women. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]