HOME-START BRIDGWATER SHORT STORY PRIZE
www.homestart-bridgwater.org.uk/index.php/short-story-prize-2012
Closing date 1 February 2012
First Prize - £500
Second Prize - £200
Third Prize - £100
Entry Fee - £7 per story (100% going to the Charity’s work)
Award-winning novelist Patricia Ferguson will be adjudicating this year's competition.
BATTERED MOONS 2012 POETRY COMPETITION
http://batteredmoons.blogspot.com
Closing date 29 February 2012
The Battered Moons Poetry Competition is now open to all UK residents 18 or over. The finals judge will be Michael Symmons Roberts, with Cristina Newton as preliminary judge. The 3 winners and 4 commended poets will be invited to read their poems at the Swindon Festival of Literature on Friday 11th May 2011, when Michael Symmons Roberts will hand out prizes and read his work. Winning and commended poems will appear in the Battered Moons Poetry Pamphlet and online. For poems up to 40 lines. Supported by the Swindon Festival of Literature and Arts Council England.
Entry fee: £3 each poem or £10 for 4. First prize, £300; second, £150; third, £75.
Online and postal entries accepted.
For further information, entry form and to enter, visit http://batteredmoons.blogspot.com
Queries to Hilda Sheehan, swindonpoetry@gmail.com or
Cristina Newton,
cristina.ne.newton@gmail.com
BRISTOL PRIZE 2012
www.bristolprize.co.uk
Closing date 31 March 2012
International short story competition.
NORWICH WRITERS' CIRCLE 41st ANNUAL OPEN POETRY COMPETITION
www.norwichwriters.org.uk/poetry/
Closing date 21 February 2012
Adjudicator - Helen Ivory
Prize Giving - April 17th 2012 - 7.30 pm at The Kent Room at The Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich.
PRIZES -
Open Category: 1st - £300.00
2nd - £150.00
3rd - £75.00
Sponsored Prizes -
H G Powell - The Family - £35.00
John Coleridge - Humorous - £15.00
Hilary Mellon - Minimalist - £15.00
Entry Fee - £3.00 per poem
WRITE FRANCE COMPETITION
www.writefrance.com/next-competition.html
Closing date 1 May 2012
Writing competitions for writers inspired by France.
THE BRIDPORT PRIZE 2012
www.bridportprize.org.uk
Closing date 31 May 2012
The Bridport Prize is an annual international creative writing competition for poetry, short stories and flash fiction. The closing date for entries which may either be sent online or by post is 31st May. The Bridport Prize is one of the top prizes of its kind in terms of both prestige and prize money. It has been the first step in the careers of many established poets and novelists. The prize money now totals £15,325.
THE SPORTSWRITER COMPETITION 2012
www.sportswriter.org.uk
Closing date 1 July 2012
The Sportswriter Competition 2012 is the first of what we hope to be an annual writing competition that seeks to identify new sportswriting talent.
Prizes:
First place: £250
Second place: £75
Third place: £25
The entry fee is £3.00, of which £1.00 will be donated to our chosen charity, Cyclists Fighting Cancer (http://cyclistsfc.org.uk). The deadline for entries is midnight on the 1st July 2012, the day of the Euro 2012 Final.
The Sportswriter Competition 2012 is open to anyone aged 18 years or older.
Entries may be submitted directly through the form on the website or by email info@sportswriter.org.uk
Entries may be up to 2,000 words (or 40 lines for poems) and should relate to sport in some way. Winning entrants will receive the cash prizes and their work will be published on the Sportswriter website Entries may be fiction or non-fiction, prose or poetry.
WRITING THE WRONGS COMPETITION
www.theglobalgallery.org
In partnership with the Sporting Chance For Peace Sculpture Tour and to further engage the ongoing participation of the public nationwide, the Writing The Wrongs competition has launched. Anyone may enter. All that is required is an original quote that has a positive message for all people. There will be a series of Writing The Wrongs competition and entry is free. The initial prize will be £100 per competition. Individuals may enter a new quote for each competition. Additional competition categories will be introduced that will result in paid contracts and royalty payments for future winners. Individuals may enter as many competitions as they wish.
Below is the information about The Sporting Chance for Peace Sculpture by acclaimed British sculptor, Donald Brown
As part of the countdown to the 2012 Olympic Games, a special sculpture will be designed and created by the acclaimed British Sculptor, Donald Brown. The sculpture will be entitled A Sporting Chance For Peace. The BBC and other members of the press and media will follow the creation of the sculpture from beginning to end. The sculpture will feature a variety of sporting images and promote the many positive principles that are taught in sport, such as discipline, patience and respect.
National Tour
The sculpture will go on a national UK tour to ensure that members of the public will have an opportunity to place a small ‘Peace’ of clay onto the sculpture as part of the creative process and in support of promoting personal, social and environmental peace.
Olympic Athletes
Athletes arriving to compete in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics will also have the opportunity to place their ‘Peace’ of clay onto the sculpture. The many thousands of portions of clay will be smoothed together as a sign of communities worldwide coming together to promote positive principle for peace through art and sport.
REGULAR COMPETITIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR:
FISH PUBLISHING
www.fishpublishing.com
MYWORLD PUBLISHING
www.myworldpublishing.co.uk/
SHORTBREAD STORIES
http://shortbreadstories.com
WORDS MAGAZINE SHORT STORY COMPETITION
www.wordsmag.com/
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