The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition
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The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition
Amazon.com and Penguin Group announced the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition, an international competition for the next great popular novel.
Entry into the competition launched on 24 January
Deadline: 6 February 2011
Two grand prizes, one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel. Each winner will be published by the Penguin Group.
Eligibility: open to unpublished and self-published writers with an English-language novel manuscript, who can submit their work between Jan. 24 and Feb. 6, 2011.
CreateSpace.com, part of the Amazon group of companies and a provider of self-publishing services, will host the contest entry platform.
"For the fourth year, Publishers WeeklyInternational news website of book publishing and bookselling including business news, reviews, bestseller lists, commentaries http://www.publishersweekly.com/, the international magazine of book publishing and bookselling, will work with Amazon and Penguin for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award to select and review the best undiscovered fiction of the new year," said George Slowik Jr., President, Publishers Weekly. "Since 2008, we've been impressed by the quality and variety of the entries, and we look forward to getting to know the class of 2011."
Submission details can be found at www.amazon.com/abna.
