Call for Entries as Prize for New Fiction goes Annual

The trustees of The Desmond Elliott Charitable Trust are delighted to announce today (Tuesday 23rd September) that the Desmond Elliott Prize will now be an annual event.  Launched in 2007 as a biennial prize to reward and promote first novelists, the success of the inaugural prize in 2008, won by Nikita Lalwani for her novel, Gifted, has prompted the change.

Entries are now invited for the 2009 prize.  A panel of three judges, to be announced early next year, will be looking for a novel which has a compelling narrative, arresting characters, and which is both vividly written and confidently realised.