CWA Emerging Author Dagger 2027

Crime Writers' Association (sponsor: Fiction Feedback)

DeadlineJan 29, 2027

Pay / prize: £500; shortlist sent to agents and publishers
Entry fee: £42
Length: Opening up to 3,000 + synopsis up to 1,500
Eligibility & notes: Unpublished novelists worldwide with no prose-fiction contract and no agent. Novel needn't be finished. Closes 6pm GMT.
Last checked: 2026-10-17

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