Latest writing competitions

And News…

Congratulations to Kudos/Orbis subscriber, Abegail Morley, whose collection, How to pour madness into a teacup, winner of the Cinnamon Poetry Award, has now been nominated for the London New Poetry Award as well as being shortlisted for the Forward Prize.

So it could add up to fourth time lucky, because the eponymous (lovely word) poem was previously voted Joint 1st in the Orbis 142 Readers’ Award, along with The Florist Explains Mimesis by Angela France.

www.FlashStories.net, organised by Dark Tales editor Sean Jeffery, ‘is where you can win £500 for your short story of up to 500 words. Our open-themed competition is on a quarterly basis and the current deadline is 31st October. All winning entries will be published on the website but remain the copyright of the author. Entry fee: £5 per story, £7 for two stories, £3 per story for three entries or more. Prizes: £500 for first, £250 for second and £100 for third place’.

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Plus calls for submissions, courses, workshops, opportunities, offers,
and so much more.

Watch this space…
information just in (and generally verbatim), and out again. Details received are often so last minute, some items are posted for a couple of days only

Listings in genre, then closing date order - so scroll on down, you never know just what you may find

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Yes, extended deadline again: too busy working on the actual magazine…

Kudos July/August Competition; closing date: September 7

What would happen if somebody like Philip Larkin (poem)
or Sir Peter Ustinov (prose) had a twin –  and they ended up lost in Nineveh?

All you have to do is email 1 entry, with ‘Nineveh’ as subject; no attachments: baldock dot carole at googlemail.com

Answer:  in a poem (maximum 30 lines; extra points if you make them rhyme…)

or 50 word short, short story/ intro to a short story - first six people to get in touch can have the option of writing a short story: 1000 words
(extra points if you include the 3 words: Larkin, Peter and Nineveh).

Plus, free copy of magazine if you can tell me which competition listing the words ‘Nineveh’ and ‘Ustinov’ come from, in this page,
Archive: UK Competitions 2009
www.kudoswritingcompetitions.com/?page_id=2434

Overall Winner: 1st prize:  year’s subs to either Kudos or Orbis,
plus publication on website and invitation to submit work for future issue of Orbis

Winner in each category: complimentary copy of current issue of Kudos, plus 1 free copy of  magazine.
Runners-up: 1 free copy of Kudos

November

Poetry

September

Flash Fiction/Short, Short Stories

September 14
BISCUIT PUBLISHING FLASH FICTION PRIZE
1st Prize: £1000, or £350 + collection or novella
+75 copies; £250, £100; £25 x 7.
Top 10 published in Winners’ anthology;
each author receives three copies.
Results: October 31.
Fee: £9.  Length: 250-750 words.
Enter online or
SEND SAE: Biscuit Publishing, PO Box 123, Washington,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE37 2YW
info@biscuitpublishing.com     www.biscuitpublishing.com

Short Stories

SEPTEMBER 30th
THE ASHAM AWARD 2010
The national short story competition for new women writers

Theme:  Ghost or Gothic
Word count:  Maximum 4,000 words

Closing date for entries September 30, 2010

12 winning stories to be published by Virago,
alongside specially commissioned stories
by Naomi Alderman, Kate Clanchy, Petina Gappah and Polly Samson.

Sponsored by the Booker Prize Foundation; Much Ado Books of Alfriston;
the Garrick Trust and Lewes Town Council.

Judges - novelists Sarah Waters and Polly Samson
and Virago publisher Lennie Goodings.

Entrants must be female, aged over 18 and currently resident in the UK.
Open to writers who have not yet had a novel
or complete anthology of their work published.

Prizes:  (Sponsored by Much Ado Books)
1st £1,000; 2nd £500; 3rd £300.
Nine runners-up receive £100 each.

Entry fee:  £15 (£10 concessions eg pensioners, students and unwaged)

Details on website, or

SEND SAE: The Asham Literary Endowment Trust,
Town Hall, High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2QS
www.ashamaward.com

September 30

@ CHORLEY & DISTRICT WRITERS’ CIRCLE
1ST NATIONAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION
1st Prize: £100; 2 x runners-up: £50.
Winning entries published in Aware, the Circle’s annual collection of writing, and showcased on both websites.
Fee: £3; £5/2. Length: 1500 words.
Theme: ‘Secrets & Lies ‘
Judge: Fiction Feedback (sponsors)
No entry form; enclose sheet with name, address and title and first line of story.
SEND TO: Aware Competition, 27 Thirlmere Road, Blackrod, Bolton BL6 5EB
mail@chorleywriters.co.uk
www.chorleywriters.co.uk and www.fictionfeedback.co.uk

Poetry & Short Stories

September 19
ARTS FOR THE ABER VALLEY
ANNUAL COMPETITION 2010
Prizes: £80, £50, £30 (stories);
£50, £30, £15 (poetry)
and range of prizes for under 18s.
Presentation on opening night of Festival,
Nazareth Centre, Abertridwr, October 2.
Aber Valley Arts Festival October 10-17
Fee: £1.50, £3/3 (stories); £1, £2/3 (poems);
cheques payable to ‘Undercurrents’. Under 18s: FREE.
Length: 3500 words; 60 lines.
For more information on festival: 02920 831668
Theme: ‘Treasure’. Judge: Jo Verity
SEND SAE: 15 Graig y Fedw, Abertridwr, Caerffili CF83 4AQ

Multi Genre

September 10
@ LIVERPOOL LENNON INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION 2010
Poems performed November 6.
Schools Poet Slam event, November 9.
Paper poet: finalists notified October 8.
FREE. Length  40 lines.
Theme: ‘to celebrate the life of the music legend’.
Judge: Carol Ann Duffy.
Paper poets: email entries
poetry@beatlesstory.com    www.beatlesstory.com

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Speakeasy are always looking for fresh things for their website – www.mkweb.co.uk/speakeasy
submissions to speakeasy@writerbrock.co.uk

And so are Startemple:  poetry on the theme of love and relationships for their site.  No payment, but a good showcase fro the beginner or the writer who is just starting to experiment with poetry.
www.startemple.com

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