Mother Tongue Publishing wants to find BC's next great novel (and hopefully novelist).
The company from Salt Spring Island is hosting a contest and inviting entries from across the province.
The contest is open to all writers living in British Columbia. The deadline for submissions is November 1st - so if you are halfway through writing you book you still have time to put pen to paper.
The winner of the first search for the Great BC Novel Contest was Gurjinder Basran, of Delta B.C. She won for her exceptional debut novel Everything Was Good-bye.
Basran also went on to win the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for 2011.
Mother Tongue Publishing recently sold the Canadian rights for Basran's debut novel to Penguin Canada.
Everything Was Good-bye will be re-launched next month as a beautiful Penguin paperback and e-book.
The award-winning short-list judges for the 1st contest were BC writers, Kathy Page, Karen X Tulchinsky and the final judge was Jack Hodgins. There were sixty-four submissions.
The judges for the 2nd contest are prize-winning BC novelists Caroline Adderson, Gurjinder Basran, and David Chariandy. 2012.
Please see guidelines are at www.mothertonguepublishing.com.
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