Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition

Chicken House, a publishing company in the UK, organizes an annual children’s fiction competition open to entrants aged 18 or over. To enter, you must have written a completed full-length novel suitable for children/young adults aged somewhere between 7 and 18 years. By full-length we suggest a minimum of 30,000 words and a maximum of 80,000 words.

Entries must be written in English. Entries must be the original work of the entrant and not previously commercially published and distributed (self-published works are allowed).

Entry fee: \u00a320.

Prizes:

• First prize is a worldwide publishing contract with Chicken House with a royalty advance of \u00a310,000.
• The second prize, the Lime Pictures New Storyteller Award, is a publishing contract with a royalty advance of \u00a37,500. The prize will be awarded to a manuscript that shows great potential for film and TV development.