The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize is a multi-disciplinary storytelling competition in conjunction with The Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.

Are you an aspiring novelist, playwright or screenwriter? The event organizers would love to hear from you. They are looking for talented new voices in fiction and welcome experimental writing as well as work that would appeal to a broad audience, whether on the printed page, the stage, radio, television or the big screen.

The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize is open to anyone aged 18 or over living, working or studying in the UK at the closing date for submissions. The winner will receive £1500 along with professional representation by 42.

To enter the competition, you need to submit a synopsis (up to 300 words) and an elevator pitch of no more than two sentences for a work of fiction, along with one of the following (in Word format):

• Novel – the first 10,000 to 15,000 words
• Stage or radio play – a complete script of between 30 and 90 pages
• Screenplays – a script of between 30 and 60 pages for episode one of a TV show or a complete feature-length film script of 90 pages.

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.