The 2025 DRF Writers Award

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The 2025 DRF Writers Award

Applications for the 2025 DRF Writers Award are now invited.

£10,000 will be presented to a first-time writer whose submission demonstrates outstanding literary talent and who needs financial support to complete their work. The two runners-up will each receive £1,000.        

  • Submissions should take the form of 15,000-20,000 words of a work in progress, fiction or non-fiction, which is not under option or contract.
  • Applicants may not be under contract to any publisher for any work or title in any language.
  • Applications are open to writers who have not previously published a full-length book of their own prose writing (including self-published or published on-line) excluding a collection of their own poetry.  They may have published short prose writing within a magazine/anthology.
  • Entrants must write in the English language and reside within the British Commonwealth or Eire.
  • Submissions should be accompanied with a brief synopsis and biographical note.
  • Applicants who submitted work for the DRF Writers Award previously may re-apply but the work submitted must be new.
  • The winner receives a cheque of £10,000 and each of the two runners-up receives £1,000.

If your submission is on the longlist you will be notified by email. The shortlist and Award announcement dates will be confirmed shortly.





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