December
Poetry
December 31
# ENGLISH ASSOCIATION FELLOWS’ POETRY PRIZE
The English Association, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH; 0116 252 3982.
engassoc@le.ac.uk www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/fpp.html
December 31
POLESWORTH POETS TRAIL
(Ppst) project )
Polesworth PoetS Trail, c/o The Tithe Barn Resource Centre, Hall Court, Bridge Street, Polesworth, nr Tamworth, Staffs, B78 1DT
http://personalpoetmal.tripod.com/ppst/
December 31
William Soutar writing prize 2009
This is an annual competition now in its seventh year, alternating between poetry and short stories. In 2008, poems may be entered for the 2009 prize.
Entry is free, but you are limited to three poems.
The Prize
A course at Moniack Mhor, the Arvon Centre in the north of Scotland. The winner will be announced on Writers’ Day, Saturday 7 March 2009, at the AK Bell Library.
The Rules
All entrants must be 16 years of age or over.
Poems must not exceed 40 lines.
A maximum of three poems may be submitted.
All entries must be typed, on one side of the paper only.
Three copies of each poem submitted must be provided.
Entries may be in English or Scots.
The competition is open to anyone throughout and outside the United Kingdom.
All entries are judged anonymously and the name of the writer must not appear on the manuscript.
Poems must not have been previously published.
Competition entries cannot be returned - please do not include a pre-paid envelope.
The Judge’s decision is final and no correspondence can be entered into.
Alterations cannot be made to poems once they have been submitted.
Entries must be accompanied by an entry form (pdf: 18kb).
There is no entry fee for this competition.
The copyright of each poem remains with the author. The writer of the winning poem grants Perth and Kinross Libraries the right to use the poem in publicity material for one year from 7 March 2009.
It is the entrant’s responsibility to ensure that the above rules are adhered to.
The winner will be notified in early March with the formal announcement as described above. Unsuccessful entrants will not be individually notified. The winner’s name will also be posted on our website.
http://www.pkc.gov.uk/Education+and+learning/Libraries+archives+and+learning+centres/Libraries+-+news+and+events/Libraries+-+news/William+Soutar+writing+prize+2009.htm
December 22
@ #DIVINE POETRY COMPETITION
Divine Poetry Competition, The Day Chocolate Company,
4 Gainsford Street, London SE1 2NE
poetry@divinechocolate.com www.divinechocolate.com
December 19
SLAMBASSADORS UK ONLINE SLAM
Online entry.
NB, 12-18s living in either London or Liverpool.
London, contact Joelle Taylor jtaylor@poetrysociety.org.uk
0207 420 9893 / 07847 372892;
Liverpool: contact: Madeline or Jess info@writingonthewall.org.uk
0151 703 0020
www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/rise
December 12
# @ POUND A POEM
Via schools: for 5-11s; year groups 1-6.
Pound a Poem, c/o Rays of Sunshine, No1 Olympic Way, Wembley, Middlesex, HA9 0NP
info@poundapoem.co.uk www.poundapoem.co.uk
December 12
The Asian Writer New Writing Competition
Following our first South Asian literature festival last weekend, we’re delighted to tell you about a new writing competition which is open to Asian writers across the UK. You can find full entry rules and details at www.theasianwriter.co.uk or email Farhana Shaikh at editor@theasianwriter.co.uk.
Liverpool, December 8
Costa Liverpool Poetry Cafe
7.30-9.30pm
Liverpool night!
Bring and read your own work or a published poem about Liverpool.
Contact Alex with advance notice of your intention to read: alexss@liv.ac.uk
http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~alexss/poetrycafe.pdf
Poetry Collections
December 31
Tips Open Pamphlet Competition
Sonnets, sestinas and haiku only. Adj: Bernard M. Jackson.
First prize: £10 or pamphlet publication.
Entry Fee: £10 for 12 poems or £5 for 5 poems or £2 for 1 poem
Wendy Webb Books (TIPS/P/1008), 9 Walnut Close, Norwich NR8 6YN
Email: tipsforwriters@yahoo.co.uk
December 12
@ THE DAWNTREADER POETRY AWARDS 2009
& Indigo Dreams Press Poetry Awards 2009
& INDIGO DREAMS PRESS BOOKLET COMPETITION 2009
8 Reynolds Court, Hildersley, Ross-On-Wye, HR9 7NE.
indigodreamspress@tiscali.co.uk www.indigodreamspress.co.uk
Short short stories
December 31
# 366 STORY COMPETITON
Under 18s.
WOW! 366 Story Competition, Scholastic Children’s Books, Euston House, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1DB
www.scholastic.co.uk/nyr
Short Stories
December 31
(NB, for writers 25 and under)
WIN £100 in book tokens with cricketwrite.com
A reminder that young creative writers could win £100 in book tokens if they enter cricketwrite.com’s new short story competition run in association with GradeGuru. GradeGuru is a notes sharing website that is revolutionising the way university students study.
We are looking for stories from writers aged 25 and under and the challenge is to be creative. The stories can be based around anything so long as they mention cricket.
Stories must be unpublished, original work, no longer than 500 words and must be submitted by the closing date of 31st December 2008.
The winner will receive £100 in book tokens with the six runners-up each receiving a creative writing book. The best stories will be published on cricketwrite.com, the website for cricket writing.
Visit www.cricketwrite.com to enter or email Sue at editor@cricketwrite.com for further information.
December 31
THE 2008 TURNER MAXWELL BOOKS SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Email entry only.
tmb@turnermaxwellbooks.com turnermaxwellbooks.com
December 30
@ WORDS FREE ENTRY SHORT STORY COMPETITION
NB, email entries only.
admin@wordsmag.com www.wordsmag.com
December 19
THE WILLESDEN HERALD
INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2009
Must register; online entry only.
sufficient standard are not received.’
www.willesdenherald.blogspot.com
December 14
Fish Short Story Competition
The closing date for the 2008 Fish Short Story has been extended to 14 December, due to difficulties sending out the newsletter. This year’s judge is Colum McCann, New York based Irish writer and author of four acclaimed novels and two collections of short stories. The best ten stories will be published in the 2009 Fish Anthology. First Prize is €3,000 and the total prize fund is €5,000. A week’s residence at Anam Cara Writers Retreat plus €300 is the second prize. All Entry on-line remains at €20 per story, and a critique is €45. The results will be announced on 17 March 2009. On-line entry info@fishpublishing.comand all details at www.fishpublishing.com Postal entries cost €25 and must be typed, double spaced, and the name of the author must not appear on the story, but on a separate sheet.
Post to - Fish Short Story Prize, Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland. Scripts will not be returned, and receipt will be by email. Cost of postal critique is €50.
December 14
‘The adventures of Rubberneck Ruby have begun. We are looking for people to write the subsequent chapters of her story. To read the beginning of the story and for competition and prize details please visit www.rubberneckgames.co.uk
December 8
‘CELEBRITY’ SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Email entries only.
storycomp@steffimcbride.com. www.steffimcbride.com/writing.php
December 5
@ YOUR CAT MAGAZINE POETRY COMPETITION
Att James Buzzel, Roebuck House, 33 Broad Street, Stamford, Lincs, PE9 1RB
james@yourcat.co.uk yourcat.co.uk
Multi-Genre
December 5
British Council Darwin Now awards
Are you a researcher, artist or writer, interested in the natural world and have a small-scale project you want to develop outside the UK? The British Council Darwin Now awards offer small grants to allow individuals working in the sciences, humanities, arts and media, the opportunity to pursue a stand-alone piece of fieldwork/research outside the UK. The awards are to support an individual’s research project relating to Darwin, his legacy, evolutionary theory, or biodiversity and up to £5000 is available for each award as a contribution towards travel and subsistence and any consumable equipment costs. For more information: www.britishcouncil.org/darwin-research-support-travel-grants.htm
December 1
Under 30s; does not specify whether you need to hail from Wales but as well to check first before splashing out 20 quid on the entry fee
Are you under 30? Are you a creative writer looking to be published in a quality anthology?
Parthian is looking for writers under 30 to submit short stories, poetry and creative non-fiction for their innovative new anthology developed and produced by talent under 30. The anthology will be edited by Tomos Owen, a PhD student at Cardiff University.
Approximately twelve pieces will be published in the anthology and will receive a professional publication fee of £50.
Entry fee is £20, which includes feedback from the editor and a copy of either Fresh Apples or Dial M for Merthyr by award-winning young author Rachel Trezise.
Visit www.nuwriting.co.uk to download an entry form.
Email the completed form and your submission to submissions@nuwriting.co.u
Playwriting
December 31
Nameless Theatre Submissions
Location: London, UK
Nameless Theatre are looking for new plays for their successful play reading event, One Night Stands, held monthly in the heart of Soho. Over the last year One Night Stands have premiered 10 new plays and offered writers the opportunity to hear their plays read by professional actors, receive feedback from a live audience and written notes, if requested, from the artistic directors, James Farrell and Francesca Seeley.
Plays should last no longer than 90 minutes and should have a cast of no more than six but can be of any topic or style. If you would like your play to be considered please send a printed copy of the script along with a brief synopsis and character breakdown to –
ONS Readings, 59 Parkhurst Road, Friern Barnet, London N11 3EN
Please ensure your play is page numbered.
If you would like your play returned, include a SAE.
For more information please contact onsreadings@hotmail.co.uk
December 31
Twenty First Birthday Playwriting Competition
When their 21st Birthday celebrations are over this autumn, Rowan Tree Theatre Company hope that they will have some new plays to take them forward to the future. With the support of Scottish Borders Council and Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association, they are launching a South of Scotland playwriting contest with a prize money of £1500.
Entrants may be either new or established writers and must be based in the Scottish Borders or Dumfries and Galloway. The play should be for no more than 3 performers (who can be actors or musicians).
Entries should be sent in by the 31st December 2008 and the winners will be announced on 28th February 2009. Entries should be sent to Helen Currie, Bowhill Theatre, Selkirk, TD7 5ET or to DGAA, Gracefield Arts Centre, 28 Edinburgh Rd, Dumfries, DG1 1JQ. Alternatively e-mail: hcurrie@buccleuch.com www.rowantreetheatrecompany.co.uk
Books
December 31
UKA OPENING PAGES COMPETITION
Email entries only; Word attachments.
UKA Press, 22 Kestrel Court, Ware SG12 0XQ, UK
OpeningPagesCompetition@UKAuthors.com www.ukauthors.com
Prose
December 31
The Barbara Reynolds Award
The Dorothy L Sayers Society has announced the creation of a new award to be named after its President, the Italian scholar and writer Dr Barbara Reynolds. The first award will be made in 2009 in the sum of £1,000 for a work which reflects or furthers some aspect of the life or work of Dorothy L Sayers. The work or works to be submitted should have been printed or published since 1st January 2004 and should usually be of at least 15,000 words in length. Any work in a foreign language should be supported by an abstract in English. Applications should be made before 31st December 2008 by submission of 3 copies of the work sent to:
The Dorothy L Sayers Society, Rose Cottage, Malthouse Lane, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, BN6 9JY.
All enquiries regarding the Award should be directed to: award@sayers.org.uk or leave a message with your phone number on the Society’s answerphone Tel: 01273 835988.
http://www.sayers.org.uk/press/barbara-reynolds-award.html
Translation
December 31
THE 2009 ROSSICA TRANSLATION PRIZE
Academia Rossica, 76 Brewer Street, 4th Floor, Piccadilly Circus
London W1F 9TU
rossica-prize@academia-rossica.org www.academia-rossica.org
November
Poetry
NOVEMBER 30
THE BHS JAMES W. HACKETT
INTERNATIONAL HAIKU AWARD 2008
Newton House, 37 Holt Road, North Elmham, Norfolk NR20 5JQ
www.haikusoc.ndo.co.uk
NOVEMBER 30
THE PLOUGH POETRY PRIZE
Plough Prize, The Plough Arts Centre,
9-11 Fore Street, Torrington, Devon EX38 8HQ
sarah.willans@theploughprize.co.uk www.theploughprize.co.uk
NOVEMBER 1
@ CARILLON MAGAZINE OPEN POETRY COMPETITION
Graham Rippon, 19 Godric Drive, Brinsworth, Rotherham,
South Yorkshire. S60 5AN
grippon1@tiscali.co.uk www.carillonmag.org.uk
Books for children
NOVEMBER 17
CHILDREN’S FICTION COMPETITION
The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition,
Books, The Times, 1 Pennington Street, London E98 1TT.
chickenhouse@doublecluck.com
Short Stories
NOVEMBER 30
LICHFIELD AND DISTRICT WRITERS
SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2008
133 Park Road, Barton-under-Needwood,
Burton-on-Trent, Staffs DE13 8DD
lichfield_writers@yahoo.co.uk http://members.lycos.co.uk/Lichfield_Writers/
NOVEMBER 15
ASHBY WRITERS’ CLUB
MARY GORNALL MEMORIAL SHORT STORY 2008 COMPETITION
Ashby Writers’ Club, 41 Highfields Close,
Ashby de la Zouch, Leics LE65 2FP
www.ashbywritersclub.co.uk www.freewebs.com/barne/
True Life Stories
November 15
FieldReport.com
Since launching in July, FieldReport.com, a unique web community based on true-life stories, has already given away $90,000 in prizes in the lead-up to January’s $250,000 grand prize contest. On January 5th, 2009 a single true-life story of 2,000 words or less will be selected as the overall winner by the site’s membership. In addition to the grand prize, a $25,000 scholarship will go to the best submission by a teen from 13 to 17 years old.
Entry is free, but time is running out - all submissions for the Grand Prize contest must be received by November 15th 2008.
Winners of our qualifying contests have included ordinary people like Murr Brewster, an unpublished mail carrier from Portland. Other winners include best-selling author Laura Fraser, essayist and anthology editor Shari MacDonald Strong, and New York Times “Habitat” columnist Stephen P. Williams.
Information on entering can be found at www.FieldReport.com
To enter, you need to rank five stories by other members and then upload one of your own.
For more information about FieldReport, see the following links:
UK Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/oct/22/site-week-field-report
Time Magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1848727,00.html
Murr Brewster on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/FieldReportTrueLifea
Playwriting
November 1
HighTide Festival
HighTide are looking for new full-length scripts from emerging writers. Writers may submit one unproduced, unpublished full-length play. There is no restriction on subject matter. HighTide welcomes international scripts, written in English, on the basis that all selected writers are available in the UK for the dramaturgy, rehearsal and production period from January to May 2009.
The play should be sent to the address below, and must have a title page with author’s name, address and telephone number. Scripts will not be returned.
HighTide Festival
24a St John Street
London EC1M 4AY
The play must also be emailed to scripts@hightidefestival.org
Please enter your name and title of script in the subject line.
Screenwriting
November 30
FEATURE SCREENPLAYS and SHORT FILMS!!
SCREENPLAY CONTEST with FULL FEEDBACK
on your Script -no matter what.
PLUS winners get their scripts read out loud in using Professional Actors in front of an audience of industry professionals. If you have a screenplay - don’t miss entering this contest!
WILDsound’s FEEDBACK Film Festival
Get your film out to the world!.
The most unique film festival in the world. Get your FILM screened in front of the industry/film fans and then receive a video of what they thought about your film!
Other Deadlines Approaching.
Be a part of the fastest growing and most unique Film Festival in the world today:
FILM SUBMISSIONS - See the full details to submit your film
SCREENPLAY SUBMISSIONS - See the full details to submit your script
TV PILOT AND SPEC SCRIPT SUBMISSIONS - See the full details to submit your TV script ONE PAGE SCREENPLAY CONTEST - Exciting contest where the WINNING script is made into a film
http://www.wildsound-filmmaking-feedback-events.com/screenplay-submissions
Miscellaneous
(or, a proper job…)
November 21
New Writing Partnership exists to explore the artistic and social power of creative writing through pioneering and collaborative projects with writers and other partners. We’re seeking outstanding candidates for the following posts:
Creative Writing Manager
Can you lead a team of three, taking a central role in the programming and delivery of a challenging year-round artistic programme and a stake in our future development?
£28-36,000
Creative Writing Assistant
A great opportunity to support a varied and demanding literature programme within a dynamic team.
£18-£22,000
Marketing & Resources Assistant
We need an arts marketing and communications enthusiast who cares about literature and likes making things happen.
£18-£22,000
All applicants will have a passion for literature. All posts are full time and eligible for inclusion in our company pension scheme.
Download an application pack from our website: www.newwritingpartnership.org.uk,
call 01603 877177 or email info@newwritingpartnership.org.uk
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October
Poetry
OCTOBER 31
@ CANNON POETS SILVER JUBILEE 2008 COMPETITION
Cannon Poets, 22 Margaret Grove,
Harborne, Birmingham, B17 9JH
martin@cannonpoets.co.uk www.cannonpoets.co.uk
October 31
THE CRASHAW PRIZE
FOR THE PUBLICATION OF DEBUT COLLECTIONS OF POETRY
Email entry online.
May be up to six winners each year.
Winners receive synchronous hardback publication in UK and Australia, paperback, USA; issued with standard publishing contract from Salt.
Winners announced in December and published the following June.
Fee: £18. Length: 65–70 pages.
‘Individual poems may have been previously published
but collection as a whole must be unpublished.
Translations and self-published books not eligible’.
Judges: members of the Board of Salt Publishing.
NB, manuscripts are not read anonymously.
www.saltpublishing.com/prizes/poetry/crashawprize.php
October 31
Debt Free - Poetry to inspire action –
A poetry competition about debt
Inspired by a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar called The Debt, Talk About Debt are running a poetry competition to find this century’s ‘Debt Poem’.
One of the biggest issues people in debt face is acceptance. Often people bury their heads in the sand, but once they do reach out for help they find there is a way out, there is a future where being debt free is a reality as opposed to a pipe dream. The need for words that inspire action and optimism have never been so great with repossessions and bankruptcies at a record high.
What type of poems are we looking for?
Poems about accepting you’re in debt and the need to take positive actions to become debt free
Poems about not hiding from problems and asking for help
Poems about the different debt solutions available
All other inspirational ‘Debt Free’ ideas welcome. The first prize for the best and most inspiring poem is £300. Second Prize is £200, and Third Prize £100. Entries must be with us no later than 31st October 2008. Full details and how to enter are on and via the website at; http://www.talkaboutdebt.co.uk/community/2008/09/debt-free-poetry-to-inspire-action/
OCTOBER 31
#NEWARK POETRY SOCIETY 9th OPEN POETRY COMPETITION
Kate Koppana, 20 Whitfield Street, Newark, Notts., NG24 1QX
enquiries@newarkpoetrysociety.co.uk www.newarkpoetrysociety.co.uk
October 30
Norfolk Poets and Writers
TIPS OPEN PAMPHLET COMP
Sonnets, Sestinas and Haiku only
Adj: Bernard M Jackson
Entry fee: £10 for 12 poems, posted together
OR: £5 for 5 poems, posted together; £2 for 1 poem1st Prize: £10 or: pamphlet publication for any outstanding poet (at publisher’s discretion) with sufficient poems short-listed for publication. Other book prizes.
RULES (to avoid disqualification)
1) Entry fee + SAE (A5, size of Tips) or 2 stamps. UK only.
2) Your entry denotes acceptance of publication without payment, in Tips or a competition anthology.
3) Please use clear typefaces, no personal details on entry.
4) Follow all form rules, no variations; 5-7-5 haiku only; avoid archaic language and inversions.
5) Adjudicator will select 1st Prize, other book prizes, and all suitable for publication.
6) To win pamphlet publication, the best short-listed candidate will be selected, provided (s)he has sufficient quality poems on the shortlist, at editor’s discretion.
7) No-one may enter more than £20 total entry value.
Pamphlet: 24 pages, 20 pages of poems, liaising with editor, 20 copies to poet of min print run 50, publisher sales fund Tips.
Wendy Webb Books (TIPS/P/1008), 9 Walnut Close, Norwich, NR8 6YN. Cheques: WENDY WEBB BOOKS.
tipsforwriters@yahoo.co.uk
OCTOBER 25
HASTINGS NATIONAL POETRY PRIZE
Josephine Austin, “The Snoring Cat”,
16 Marianne Park, Dudley Road, Hastings, E. Sussex TN35 5PU
OCTOBER 20
ENVOI OPEN POETRY COMPETITION
Envoi Poetry Competition, Meirion House, Glan yr afon,
Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 3SU.
www.envoipoetry.com
Children’s Poetry
October 20
OLD POSSUM’S CHILDREN’S POETRY COMPETITION 2008
P.O. Box 24, Winkleigh, EX19 8WU
www.childrenspoetrybookshelf.co.uk
Short Stories
OCTOBER 31
@ BALLISTA MAGAZINE 2008 SHORT STORY COMPETITION
www.mucusart.co.uk/ballista.htm
OCTOBER 31
DARK TALES SHORT STORY COMPETITION
7 Offley Street, Worcester WR3 8BH.
competition@darktales.co.uk www.darktales.co.uk
October 31
RAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Rape and Abuse Line, located in Dingwall, have announced an open writing competition with cash prizes which will run from 1 July until 31 October 2008 and it is anticipated that it will attract short story writers from all over the UK. The story subject matter will be open to the writers’ imagination but each and every story must start with the words ‘If it hadn’t been for that telephone call……’ The follow on story can be about anything at all but it should be stimulating, entertaining, humorous, thought provoking or simply a good read and must be between 1500 and 1800 words in length.
The competition is being sponsored by the David St John Thomas Charitable Writing Trust, based in Nairn, with £350 in cash to be won and smaller prizes donated by Borders and Boots in Inverness for the best story submitted by a writer from that area and a prize donated by Tesco in Dingwall for the best story submitted by a Dingwall writer.
Rape and Abuse Line are launching the competition to raise much-needed funds for the charity and also to raise their profile whilst at the same time providing a creative outlet for any writer who appreciates the challenge of putting together a good tale.
The competition will be judged by novelist and popular newspaper and magazine columnist Jane Wenham-Jones and winning entries will be published on the R.A.L. website at the end of the year.
R.A.L. chair Julie Fraser said, ‘This will be a great opportunity for budding writers to exercise their creative skills - and at the same time to help our charity and also those who use our services - whilst taking the opportunity to compete for a useful and worthwhile prize. We will be looking for well presented and well written stories that display the imagination and writing originality of the authors.’
Further details of the competition together with an entry form and the full rules can be found on the R.A.L web site – www.rapeandabuseline.co.uk
October 26
(at a guess: when the Manchester Literature Festival comes to an end)
MLF Rainy City Stories
And it certainly does not get much wetter than Manc when it’s raining, have you noticed? Anyway, website already features specially commissioned work by Jackie Kay, Mike Duff, Nicholas Royle and Rajeev Balasubramanyam, and now it’s been thrown open to the general public: short stories or poems, unpublished. Submit online. Add title and where it’s based (e.g. a building, street or area).
Also keen to feature multimedia such as images (including graphic stories), audio and video.
http://www.rainycitystories.com/submit-your-story
MLF Review Competition
Best reviews posted on the festival’s blog site, and the very best will win a £50 Borders voucher
You can write a review of any event that is part of this year’s Manchester Literature Festival programme (16 - 26th October 2008). Reviews should provide a summary of what happened at the event (including name of event, featured writers, date and venue). It should also give a strong flavour of the event’s mood/physical surroundings and how the audience responded. Detail any interesting points made by the writers or members of the audience. Listen/watch out for any quirky details that will add some local colour to your piece.
We want to hear your original perceptions of the Manchester Literature Festival, favourable or otherwise, but please bear in mind that we won’t be able to publish anything that might be deemed libelous!
Reviews should be between 100 and 400 words in length. All reviews should be sent within 3 days of the event taking place and emailed to mcrlitfestblog@gmail.com
You may also attach a jpeg photo of the event to accompany your review if you have one, but don’t worry if you haven’t as the official MLF photographer will be out and about at most of our events.
Please ensure that your email also contains the following information:
* the title and date of the event you have reviewed
* your own name and contact details
http://manchesterliterature.blogspot.com/2008/10/mlf-review-competition.html
October 24
Chorley & District Writers’ Circle
Open to anyone living or working within the PR postcode
(from Southport in the west, through Chorley and Leyland to Preston and Garstang in the north).
Prizes: £50, £25. Both winning stories published in Aware;
short-listed stories might also appear.
Winning story read out by Manchester author Cath Staincliffe
at launch in Chorley in November.
Fee: £3. Length: 1000 words.
Theme: ‘Flight’.
(For information about the Writers’ Circle,
contact the Secretary, Heather Richardson: heather@creativekitcompany.co.uk)
Entry forms not required but include cover sheet with contact details;
submissions preferably emailed or
SEND TO: Aware Competition, 3 Dale View, Chorley, PR7 3QJ
dea@compedge.net
Playwriting
October 29
Start Night
Once every four to six weeks on Mondays, The Michael Frayn Space hosts Hampstead Theatre’s fast and furious new writing initiative, Start Night.
Hampstead Theatre encourages the submission of new scripts by writers of all levels. Up to five short extracts are presented on the night with minimal set and props. The audience is asked to give written feedback on each extract which is then collated and given to the writers. The idea is that emerging and established writers have the chance to test a new, incomplete script on an audience and use the response they get to improve the play.
The submission deadline for the upcoming Start Night on Monday 17 November 2008 is 29 October 2008.
For more information and submission details please see the Hampstead Theatre website: www.hampsteadtheatre.com
October 24
Script Games
Visual art meets live drama as Script teams up with Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery for a new project to celebrate the China Now Festival. Script, the regional development agency for dramatic writers in the West Midlands, is inviting writers to submit a short (10 minute) play in response to the “Beijing Map Games” exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
Five plays will be selected and performed at the Museum, in front of the exhibition, on Saturday 22nd November 2008.
For details on how to apply, visit: www.scriptonline.net/stage.html
Overseas
December
Poetry
December 31
FIFTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
DANCE WITH WORDS POETRY CONTEST
Palabras Press, 113 Hounslow Dr, NW Calgary, Alberta T2K 2E6
admin@Palabras-Press.com http://contest.palabras-press.com/
Poetry Collections
December 30
PAVEMENT SAW PRESS CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Pavement Saw Press, Chapbook Contest,
321 Empire Street Montpelier, OH 43543
editor@pavementsaw.org www.pavementsaw.org/
December 31
#SHADOWS INK POETRY CONTESTS
Shadow Poetry, 1209 Milwaukee Street,
Excelsior Springs, MO 64024 USA
shadowpoetry@shadowpoetry.com www.shadowpoetry.com/contests/poetrycontests.html
December 1
The Orphic Prize for Poetry book prize
Guidelines & Information for 2008
To enter, submit 48-80 paginated pages of poetry, table of contents, acknowledgments, bio, email address for results (No SASE; manuscripts will be recycled), and a $25.00 non-refundable fee for each manuscript entered. The winner is awarded $1000 and publication, plus 20 author copies. All entries will be considered for publication. All styles are welcome. Multiple submissions are acceptable. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere you must notify Dream Horse Press immediately. Fees are non-refundable. Judging will be anonymous; writers’ names should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. Please include your name and biographical information in a separate cover letter. Please be sure to include your email address. The winner is chosen by the owner, J.P. Dancing Bear. Close friends, students (former or present), and relatives of the the press owner are NOT eligible for the contest; their entry fees will be refunded.
The Orphic Prize for Poetry entries may be sent, following the guidelines above, to:
Dream Horse Press
P. O. Box 2080
Aptos, California 95001-2080
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www.dreamhorsepress.com
December 1
CAROLINA WREN PRESS
2009 POETRY CONTEST FOR A FIRST OR SECOND BOOK
Poetry Contest 2009, Carolina Wren Press
120 Morris Street, Durham, NC 27701
carolinawrenpress@earthlink.net www.carolinawrenpress.org
Short Stories
December 31
ANNUAL 2008 RICHARD BAUSCH SHORT STORY CONTEST
www.ourstories.us/
December 12
MITCHELSTOWN INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION
(formerly the William Trevor Short Story Competition)
Liam Cusack, 37 Upper Cork Street, Mitchelstown,
County Cork, Ireland.
cusackliam@eircom.net www.mitchelstownshortstoryprize.com
November
Poetry Collections
November 30
THE 2ND ANNUAL HOTMETALPRESS CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Martin Willitts Jr., P.O. Box 4322, Rome, NY 13244
hotmetalpress@hotmail.com www.hotmetalpress.net
Poetry
NOVEMBER 19
ELIZABETH CURRY PRIZE IN POETRY
SLAB; Dept. of English, 314 SWC,
Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA 16057, USA
www.slablitmag.com
NOVEMBER 15
THE 15th ANNUAL HOWARD NEMEROV SONNET AWARD
The Formalist, 320 Hunter Drive, Evansville IN 47711, USA
http://english.evansville.edu/Nemerov.html
NOVEMBER 1
5th ANNUAL BEULAH ROSE POETRY PRIZE FOR WOMEN
Smartish Pace, P.O. Box 22161, Baltimore, MD 21203
cbanks@smartishpace.com www.smartishpace.com
Short Stories
NOVEMBER 15
RAMBLE UNDERGROUND WINTER ‘09
SHORT FICTION CONTEST
And submissions welcome for magazine
www.rambleunderground.org
NOVEMBER 1
THE DANAHY FICTION PRIZE
Danahy Fiction Prize, University of Tampa,
401 West Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606-1490
submissions@ut.edu http://tampareview.ut.edu
Poetry & Short Stories
NOVEMBER 23
@ THE INNER CITY LIFE LITERARY COMPETITION 2008
Inner City Life Competition, NSW Writers’ Centre
PO Box 1056, Rozelle NSW 2039, Australia
nswwc@nswwriterscentre.org.au www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
Multi-Genre
NOVEMBER 30
THE CARIBBEAN WRITER
INTERNATIONAL LITERARY ANTHOLOGY & PRIZES
NB: The Caribbean should be central to the work, or the work should reflect a Caribbean heritage, experience or perspective.
The Caribbean Writer, University of the Virgin Islands
RR 1 Box 10000, Kingshill VI 00850-9781
qmars@uvi.edu or submit@thecaribbeanwriter.org
www.thecaribbeanwriter.org
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October
Poetry
Ireland
October 31
Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition 2008
Prize of US$1000 or €600 and publication of chapbook. by Southword Editions. Winner will receive ten author copies. The winner will be invited to Cork, Ireland for the book launch in February 2009. A maximum of US$1000 or €600 will be paid by the Munster Literature Centre towards the winner’s travel expenses in addition to prize money.
Entries by post should be:
3 Copies of 15 page manuscript consisting of either a selection of poems or one long poem on any subject or theme from a poet of any nationality writing in English. Poems may have been published previously in periodicals or anthologies but not in solo chapbooks or collections.
Entry fee is US$20 or 15 euros.
First 500 entrants will receive by return a free copy of Never Trust Where A Cat Sits by Irene A. Mosvold of Louisville, Kentucky, winner of the inaugural Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition.
Send by October 31st to:
Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition,
The Munster Literature Centre, Frank O’Connor House, 84 Douglas Street, Cork, Ireland.
Competition will be judged by a panel of published, prizewinning Irish poets.
www.munsterlit.ie/
USA
OCTOBER 31
MARGIE/THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POETRY
2008 STRONG MEDICINE CONTEST
MARGIE, POB 250, Chesterfield, MO 63006
www.margiereview.com
OCTOBER 31
HOLLIS SUMMERS POETRY PRIZE
Ohio University Press, 19 Circle Drive, The Ridges
Athens, OH 45701
sandersd@ohio.edu www.ohioswallow.com
Short Stories
October 31
2009 KORE PRESS SHORT FICTION AWARD
A prize of $1,000 plus chapbook publication by Kore Press
will be given for a short story written in English.
Judge to be announced.
Eligibility
This competition is open to any woman writing in English, regardless of nationality.
How to Submit
Submit your manuscript and the $15 entry fee online.
Comment box should include:
daytime and evening telephone numbers
where you heard about the contest
All entrants will be notified of results via email.
Manuscripts must be:
• a minimum of 4,000 words and a maximum of 12,000 words
• doublespaced
• paginated
• anonymous (do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript).
• original fiction written by the applicant (translations are not eligible)
• unpublished at the time of submission (if the story is accepted elsewhere during our deliberation process, please notify us immediately) kore@korepress.org
http://www.korepress.org/KorePressShortFictionAward.htm
Multi-Genre
December 31
THE DREAM QUEST ONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST
Dreamquestone.com, P.O. Box 3141, Chicago, IL 60654
alwest56@hotmail.com www.dreamquestone.com
December 31
FREEFALL MAGAZINE POETRY AND PROSE CONTEST
922 9 Ave SE Calgary AB T2G OS4, Canada
www.freefallmagazine.ca
December 31
THE LITCHFIELD REVIEW WRITING CONTEST
7 Bonna Street, Beacon Falls, CT 06403
info@thelitchfieldreview.com www.thelitchfieldreview.com
Playwriting
December 31
Panoply’s “10-Minute Playwright Competition”
You’re invited to write a 10-Minute Play pertaining to the theme, Alabama Threads-From Cotton to the Cosmos for the Panoply Arts Festival 2009, presented by Boeing. The script should reflect a historic era or event that occurred in the state of Alabama.
Playwrights should visit the Panoply website at www.panoply.org
for guidelines and further specifics. For more information, e-mail The Arts Council office at jbroad@panoply.org
International submissions will be accepted. All submissions must be postmarked by Wednesday, 31 December 2008. Submissions (application and script) should be mailed to:
Panoply 10-Minute Playwright Competition
c/o The Arts Council, Inc.
700 Monroe Street, SW;
Suite 2Huntsville, AL 35801 (USA)
OR Fax to Attn: 10-Minute Playwright Competition at (256) 533-3811
October 31
CALLALOO
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR SPECIAL BLACK BRITISH ISSUE
Callaloo is the premier U.S. American journal publishing literature, visual art, interviews, and literary and cultural criticism from the African Diaspora. We invite your poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and visual art submissions to be considered for an upcoming special Black British issue.
See the website at http://callaloo.tamu.edu <http://callaloo.tamu.edu/> /guidelines
for specific instructions regarding submissions.
Send your submissions to: Callaloo / The Black British Issue, Dept. of English, Blocker 249,
Texas A&M University, TAMU #4212, College Station, TX 77843-4212
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