You can submit more than three chapters if you need to, in order to make up to 4,000 words. Green Stories may then ask for the full novel from the best entries. They may only ask for an extract (see competition guidelines) but it’s a good idea to have the rest written as they will probably ask for the whole thing when making decisions about the finalists.
Criteria for Winning: There are two key priorities:
- Storytelling ability – the story should be engaging and
- Incorporate green solutions e.g. by
- Showcasing what a green/sustainable society might look like and/or how they might get there
- Smuggling green solutions into a story aimed at mainstream readers – this can be quite subtle
- Using positive role models
Copyright: Copyright remains with the author for the purposes of the competition. But if your submission is a winner and forwarded to publishers/production companies, they will communicate with you directly about copyright terms, etc.
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OnlineBenefits
Green Stories Adult Novel Competition will have the following prizes-
- Winning Prize: £1000
- Runner up: £500
- Half-price manuscript appraisal (worth £300-400) for top three entries by established literary consultancy Daniel Goldsmith.
Eligibilities
Green Stories Adult Novel Competition is-
- Open to all, as long as it has not been published elsewhere.
- All submissions must be in English and conform to the green stories criteria of showing a positive vision of what a sustainable society might look like or in some way smuggling in green solutions/policies/characters in the context of an otherwise mainstream story
- Most of the competitions include prizes for under 18s and a prize for higher education students (18-25). They will include MAs and PhDs and those still in school or college as students.
