KELPIES PRIZE 2010
Closing date 26th Feruary 2010
www.florisbooks.co.uk/kelpiesprize
Have you got a brilliant story, set wholly or mainly, in Scotland, and suitable for both boys and girls aged 9 - 12 years old?
Entries must be original, previously unpublished prose of between 40,000 and 70,000 words long. Authors do not need to live in Scotland to qualify for the prize.
The winner will receive a £2,000 cash prize and have their manuscript published in the Kelpies imprint.
LIMNISA SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2010
Closing date 1st March 2010
www.bluethumbnail.com - the short story website is going live in January 2010
Until January please refer to the Limnisa website:
www.limnisa.com - click on writing competition
FLASH 500 COMPETITION
Closing date 31st March 2010
www.lorrainemace.com/index_files/flash500.html
Flash 500 Competition is a new quarterly, open-themed, flash fiction competition.
Judged by Simon Whaley.
- Entries of up to 500 words.
- Entry fee: £5 for one story, £8 for two stories
- Prizes will be awarded as follows:
- First: £250 plus publication in Words with JAM
- Second: £100
- Third: £50
Highly commended: A copy of The Writer’s ABC Checklist.
MERIDIAN WRITING SPRING SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Closing date 31st March 2010
•Story: Open Theme/Genre, 3,000 wds max
•Prizes: £100, £50 & £25 plus firstwriter.com vouchers
•Fee: £5 per story
•Eligibility: Open to new and published authors, see website for full details
•Website:
www.meridian-writing.co.uk/competiton_2.html
•Critique service: Meridian are now also offering a critique service to competition and non-competiton short stories.
A basic critique for a competition entry is £3 (£5 non-comp) and will cover issues of presentation & formatting, spelling/grammar, language, characterisation, pace etc, and be approx. 1 page A4 in length. Please refer to our website for full critique details and options.
MAG POETRY PRIZE 2010
Closing date 30th April 2010
www.poeticrepublic.com
Prize fund accumulates @ £2.00 per entry (up to £10,000 maximum).
1st Prize - 50%
2nd Prize - 25%
3rd Prize - 15%
4th Prize - 10%
The entrants judge this online poetry competition themselves - a knockout system in three rounds. There is a new development for the poetry competition in 2010: participants may leave comments during the judging process.
Any subject or style: Poetry or Prose Poetry, Maximum 42 lines, Entry fee £6.
All profits from the competition will be donated to MAG (Mines Advisory Group). MAG is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation that clears the remnants of conflict for the benefit of communities worldwide.
To find out more and to enter visit MAG Poetry Competition
Last year’s competition was very well received. The feedback from participants was excellent. Vivien Hampshire, a freelance journalist, wrote a feature on the judging process from an entrant’s perspective and this appeared in the September issue of Writing Magazine - the UK’s best selling writing magazine.
In 2009 we received 310 entries were received from Australia, Canada, France, Greece, Guernsey, Iceland, India, Ireland, Jersey, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, UK and USA. The competition raised £310 for MAG (Mines Advisory Group).
THE BULWER-LYTTON FICTION CONTEST
Closing date every year us usually 15th April
www.bulwer-lytton.com
FISH PUBLISHING
www.fishpublishing.com
Competitions throughout the year.
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