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First Pages Prize

Open to un-agented writers worldwide, the FIRST PAGES PRIZE invites you to enter your FIRST FIVE PAGES (1250 words) of a longer work of fiction or creative nonfiction.

Winners receive cash awards, a developmental mentorship, and an agent consultation.

Prize Information & Guidelines

FIRST PAGES PRIZE is open for submissions!

March 1, 2023

Submissions for the 2023 FIRST PAGES PRIZES are open in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction! There will be three winners in each category and winners will receive  cash awards, developmental mentoring ... [Read More]

Elise Thi Tran Wins 2022 First Pages Prize!

August 4, 2022

Congratulations Elise Thi Tran, winner of the 2022 First Pages Prize with Dredged From the Courtyard Pond, a collection of vignettes drawing from the oral history of a family’s escape from Vietnam and ... [Read More]

P.J. McKay, 2020 First Page Prize Winner

February 21, 2021

New Zealand author P. J. McKay, won with the opening of her historical novel, The Telling Time (Polako Press, 2020). She is now represented by Highspot Literary and was shortlisted for the 2020 NZSA ... [Read More]

2019 First Pages Prize Winners

September 27, 2019

First Pages 2019 Winners

Sara Johnson Allen won the First Pages Prize 2019 with We Make Them Pay - Literary Fiction Sandra Jensen  placed 2nd with Seagull Pie - Creative Non Fiction (Memoir) and has also won the Bridport ... [Read More]

2018 First Page Price Winners

November 19, 2018

David Mccullough

2018 marked the inaugural First Pages Prize, created by The de Groot Foundation to highlight emerging authors. Emerging authors are encouraged to submit the first 5 pages of a fiction or creative ... [Read More]

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