Publishing News carries a tiny paragraph about a competition for first novels. It seems that submissions can only be made by publishers, a limitation which will certainly reduce the field, and is probably intended to eliminate self-publishers. But who knows? Further details are to be had from Stella@theartsclub.co.uk. Prize: £1,000 plus a posh dinner.
The Arts Club is a once-famous institution but I don't think I realised that it was still in existence. Founded in 1863, it was once the haunt of Millais, Swinburne, Kipling, and others. The web site is coy about membership rates but I doubt that it is cheap.
The Arts Club was, of course, the scene of that wonderful episode in Swinburne's life when he arrived drunk, with a friend. He and the friend found that the cloakroom was full of gentlemen's hats (everyone wore one in those days), and so they proceeded to throw them all on the floor and stamp on them. This reduced both men to hysteria, but the Club committee was not amused at all. I wrote about this incident in my novel The Suppression of Vice. And if I get a moment I might even reproduce that chapter here tomorrow. Come back and see.
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Thank you sir for maintaining such a great blog. I have only recently taken to writing and I'm starving for information. Your site has loads of stuff for me to sift through. I will definitely link to your blog from mine. If you feel so inclined I'm blogging about my soon to be famous attempt at finishing a book during the National Novel Writing month sponsored by nanowrimo.org. Please feel free to check out the blog, I'd cherish any advice/insight you can give.
I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the url. I have several blogs. I'm most interested in your opinion of the things in my writing blog:
The Unlikely Author
Keep them self publishers out of there--a good one might show up and what then?
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