Apply For 2025 Oxford/42 New Writing Prize Worth £1500
Are you a passionate novelist, playwright, or screenwriter looking for opportunities to launch you out to the world financially? Then you should hurry and apply for the 2025 Oxford/42 New Writing Prize.
Oxford/42 New Writing Prize is delighted to announce the inauguration of a multi-disciplinary storytelling competition in collaboration with The Faculty of English at the University of Oxford.
Eligibility
Aspiring novelist, playwright or screenwriter. Talented new voices in fiction are given the opportunity to experimental writing as well as work that would appeal to a broad audience, whether on the printed page, the stage, radio, television or the big screen.
The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize is open to anyone aged 18 or over living, working or studying in the UK at the closing date for submissions.
Benefits:
The winner will receive £1500 along with professional representation by 42.
How to Apply
To enter the competition, you need to submit a synopsis (up to 300 words) and an elevator pitch of no more than two sentences for a work of fiction, along with one of the following (in Word format):
Novel – the first 10,000 to 15,000 words
Stage or radio play – a complete script of between 30 and 90 pages
Screenplays – a script of between 30 and 60 pages for episode one of a TV show or a complete feature-length film script of 90 pages.
Send your entries to: Oxfordwritingprize@42mp.com
The closing date is 30 April 2025. Up to six entries will be shortlisted by 30 May 2025. The winner shall be announced in June.
The expert panel of judges from the worlds of literature, stage and screen includes; Abby Ajayi, creator of “Riches” (ITVX and Amazon) and writer on Emmy nominated “Inventing Anna” (Netflix); Chris Chibnall, creator of “Broadchurch” (ITV), “Doctor Who” Showrunner, and author of DEATH AT THE WHITE HART (Penguin 2025); Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of METAMORPHOSIS and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford; and Rona Munro, award-winning dramatist of “The James Plays” and “Oranges and Sunshine”.
