Watson Little x Indie Novella Prize

Watson, Little in association with Arts Council funded writers’ forum Indie Novella are together delighted to announce the Watson, Little x Indie Novella Prize, this year devoted to celebrating emerging voices from underrepresented communities and welcomes fiction of all lengths.

Founded in 1971, Watson, Little Ltd is a long-established literary agency that offers a full service to its clients across all aspects of media. It has an outstanding track record, and has represented a number of celebrated, bestselling and prize-winning authors over the years.

Indie Novella is an online hub providing free advisory services to aspiring writers and a free online forum to help make novel writing and publishing more transparent and accessible. In celebration of this commitment, we are jointly launching a Fiction Prize for emerging writers.

The Prize is for fiction of all lengths (novels, novellas, stories), open to all unpublished (self-published are accepted) UK-based authors aged 16 and over, and invites entries under the following three themes, that are particularly timely and relevant in today’s society.