The Times/Chickenhouse competition for new childrens novels is already open - with a closing date of 31st October 2014.

There is a publishing contract worth £10,000 for a winning submission appropriate to children aged between 7 and 18. The full novel needs to be submitted and it should be between 30K and 80K words.

For more details on the competition checkout the following link:

http://doublecluck.com/submissions/