This one is expensive for what you get. 65.00. And I know someone who won it one year and didnt find an agent or publisher from her meetings, but did subsequently from introductions. Tends towards the highbrow serious work over genre. However there is surrounding info that could be useful...
Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown says HERE that five years ago it was all BRAND, BRAND, BRAND, does this writer have a BRAND? But she says, there is a shift in the wind again...if a Manuscript is wonderful enough.
Tally ho. Make it wonderful ... and unique. What could be easier? *cough* says...