Pulp Idol 2023-Judge

Our Director, Natalie, will be serving as a judge for the heats of Pulp Idol 2023! Over 50 submissions have been received. Natalie came runner up in 2020 so it is an honour to now be a judge!

Find out more information here and below!

Writing on the Wall have been running our annual Pulp Idol competition for over ten years, publishing the first chapters of the competition’s finalists in an anthology. Many new novelists, including Ariel Khan (Raising Sparks), James Rice (Alice and the Fly), Ashleigh Nugent (LOCKS), Clare Coombes (Definitions), and most recently, Phillipa Holloway (The Half Life of Snails), have found their first success through Pulp Idol. This competition is unearthing the best new novelists from Liverpool and across the country.  

All finalists get their first chapter published in a book of ‘Firsts,’ which is produced in hard copy, a digital manuscript and made available on Amazon Kindle. Copies of Pulp Idol – Firsts are sent to agents and publishers. 

Pulp Idol 2023 is now CLOSED for submissions.