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Zoë Bossiere 2021 Readers' Pick - on having the courage to send your work out into the world

“A few months after being selected for the Readers' Pick prize, I signed with my agent, Maggie Cooper, at Aevitas Creative Management. I credit the preparation I did for the First Pages Prize with helping me write a successful query letter and a strong writing sample that was representative of the manuscript as a whole. Winning a prize for my writing was also a major confidence boost for me, as I hadn’t shared my manuscript with many readers prior to submitting to First Pages,” says Zoë Bossiere, 2021 Readers Pick winner.


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2020 winner Pip McKay's first pages tips: 'When I plan too much, I lose some of the magic'

Last year’s winner, Pip McKay, entered First Pages Prize mere days before the extended deadline closed. She indie published her historical fiction, The Telling Time, and was a finalist for the NZSA Heritage Literary Award. Here she shares her approach to her pages and hard-earned advice on following your gut feeling and giving it your all.

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"Playing with different beginnings to find the right moment to enter the story": Amanda Dennis on first pages

Amanda Dennis’s debut novel, Her, Here launches in a few weeks with Bellevue Literary Press. As assistant professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the American University of Paris she lives and breathes words and writing. Here she shares her process(es) to write her first pages.

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