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Jonathan Cape open submission

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Closing date: 
30 June 2014
Entry: 
No criteria No entry fee
Prize: 
Consideration of your work by Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape will be open to submissions from "new writers of high calibre and imagination" for a month this summer.

The publisher, an imprint of Penguin Random House's Vintage Books in London, is asking for prose fiction. Writers are asked to submit 50 pages, which can be from a novel or novella, or short stories, and the work can be finished or in progress.

For graphic-novel submissions, please contact the editors through http://www.capegraphicnovels.co.uk

Literary publisher Jonathan Cape has a roster authors including Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Alison Weir, Julian Barnes, Roddy Doyle, A.L. Kennedy, Irvine Welsh, Audrey Niffenegger and Anne Enright. It publishes fiction and non-fiction, as well as poetry.

Submissions should be emailed as attachments to capesubmissions@randomhouse.co.uk. Please include contact details, and a covering paragraph of any information you think might prove helpful in considering your submission.

Editorial director Alex Bowler said: "It's a gentle experiment to see what it throws up. It is not with enormous expectation, it's a question of patience. If we sense it's heading in the right direction we may do it again. It may be three or four years before two or three interesting thing are surfaced. It is a gentle way of surfacing new writers."

He added: "The stuff we get in from agents is wonderful, our list is wonderful, this is a way of expanding our universe. Regrettably, due to the number of submissions we receive, we cannot respond in every instance, but all entries will be read. Submissions received after 30 June will not be considered."

For more details:
http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/capesubmissions/

Closing date: 
30 June 2014
Entry: 
No criteria No entry fee
Prize: 
Consideration of your work by Jonathan Cape