Letter Review is offering $1000 USD total Prize pool in a competition for unpublished books including Novels, Novellas, Short Story Collections, Poetry Collections, and Nonfiction Books. Open to writers who live anywhere in the world.

2-4 Winners are announced who share in the Prize money. Winners can choose whether to publish an extract, or not. Up to twenty writers are shortlisted. The Prize is judged blind to ensure fairness.

The Prize offers:

• The top 2-4 winning entries of the Prize for Unpublished Books are declared the Winners, and share equally in the Prize pool of $1000 USD.
• Optional: Winners may choose to publish an extract, or not to publish any element of their work. Winners may choose to have an extract of up to 5000 words of their entry published by The Letter Review, which can help to generate interest in, and anticipation for the work. With your permission, published extracts may be submitted to anthologies such as the Pushcart Prize.
• To recognize the abilities of the writers who do not place as a Winner, 10-20 entries are Shortlisted.
• Winners may request a professional recommendation / endorsement of their work in the form of a letter from Judges which they can send to agents, publishers etc.
• Winners may also participate in an interview series, further raising their professional profile.

The Letter Review Prize is judged blind to ensure all entrants including emerging, established, and diverse writers have an equal chance of success.

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.