A first novel for £30,000
The winner of the Daily Mail First Novel competition will receive £30,000 and a publishing deal with Transworld Publishers.
This competition is open to anyone aged 16 years or more who is a resident of the UK or Republic of Ireland.
Enter by July 2, 2008.
See here

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Fiction means making it up. It's about something that never happened, or might never happen, at any rate.

Fiction dates back to the campfire storyteller who recalled often-true stories with an embellishment that rendered the original yarn almost unrecognizable.

For all that, the listeners were enthralled as any audience; for a storyteller should be so taken as to forget their surroundings completely.

Fiction nowadays appears mostly within the confines of book covers, though some has escaped onto the net and some writers are composing stories on blogs, piece by piece, as Dickens and his contemporaries once did for their works of fiction through weekly published episodes.

Few are the readers who have not learnt something true from reading fiction.

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