Archive: magazines, 2008

Kudos 73, November/December

Novel Ideas
from the creators of Steffi McBride and Christine Kringle,
so now they want you to send them yours

For poetry, collect your thoughts and submit a bumper bundle
for Flarestack, Indigo Dreams or the Poetry Business
And there’s more, much more, in The New Writer Prose & Poetry Prizes,
The University of New Orleans’ Writing Contest
or The Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and Non-Fiction

Lovers of chocolate, poetry and good causes,
try the Divine Chocolate Poetry Competition.
Fruit and veg? That’s the theme for fundraising Pound a Poem.
Or track down something very different to go in The Purdy Anthology (USA) or on the Polesworth PoetS Trail (Staffs)

Play about? Ah yes, with Bench, Congleton and DAWs amongst others.
And the CWA Diamond Dagger competition will nail the best short stories –
so look sharp

Kudos 72 , September/October

Ring any bells, poetically speaking? Carillon Magazine…
The McLellan Award; Poetry Society; Second Light Network; Troubador Prize

Put some colour into your writing with the Red Planet Prize (TV scripts)
or more poetry: Black Horse Poets; Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes;
Cannon Poets’ Silver Jubilee

Funny stuff from the Bard of Armagh and Vincent McTigue poetry contests - and Palmprint: erotic short stories… Strong Medicine? That’s for MARGIE, but maybe not too saucy for Worcester Writers’ Circle (Stories)
or the Elizabeth Curry Prize in Poetry

And finally, some deserve a closer look –
a Bird’s Eye View of playwriting,
plus poetry for Invisible Ink and Old Possum (children),
and all sorts (film, poetry, plays) welcome for Dysming Monadys

Kudos 71, July/August

One, two, three, go –

1 Prima Short Story Competition
2 categories in the new Elmet Poetry Prize
3 entries maximum for the Oxfam Books Poetry Calendar

Torbay, or not Torbay… plenty of poetry competitions, from Arvon to Yorkshire

The new Aesthetica Annual Competition for Creative Works
Go to the other extreme: 3-Day Novel Contest
And no, you’re not imagining things:
two fantastic competitions from BFS and from BSFA

Very interesting themes for short stories:
Black Rose and werewolves, chemistry with Twyford Writers,
serious stuff in Dark Tales, and justice for Mace & Jones

The Jo Cowell Award switches from Prose to Poetry,
Camber Press Award for chapbooks, while the Legend Award is still going strong…
and there’s a chance for Elvis fans to play around with scripts. Uh-huh

Kudos 70, May/June

BIRDS & BEES, FLORA & FAUNA…

From BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year, Raspberry & Vine,
Split the Lark and Blue Butterfly to The Crabbe Memorial Competition
and the Frogmore Poetry Prize

What do Mabel Barber, Doris Gooderson, Alexander Cordell and Kenneth Grahame have in common? Make Hay with short story competitions

Kisses and Popsicles for poetry, or a sweet assortment of opportunities
from Cinnamon, from poetry to novels

Could you help out the Joseph Foundation? Or work out the MacGuffin, now open to Overseas submissions. Ready to serve up something a bit bigger - try Roast Books, then boldly go Over the Edge, find out more about Penumbra, Dream Quest, and Arc.

And what on earth is Archangel Shecky looking for ?

Kudos 69, March/April

It’s not rocket science…or is it?
Submissions welcome for Cone Zero,
The Daily Telegraph and Bayer Science Writer Awards

There’s verse for Ver and Ware (yes, literally with the latter),
and themes for Buxton, Southport and Slipstream

Run the gamut with prose, or make a start anyway, from
the Annual New Writers Competition from Short FICTION,
The Bristol Short Story Prize and Cadenza

Overseas: here, there and everywhere,
almost: ‘Nobody from Mars yet – maybe next time.’:
The Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Short Story Contest

If you like a challenge: ‘colour’ for Poetry on the Lake,
‘Metallic Feathers’ for Parsec,
while First Lines want you to let them know why
‘Nick had considered himself a lucky guy, until now’.

And the classic: Bulwer-Lytton, a ‘progressive contest (which) has not changed in twenty-five years.
For further information about anything on this website, or any writing competitions, please email:
carolebaldock@hotmail.com

Kudos 68, January/February

Big Stakes?
Do you have have a taste for 100s and 1000s?
Pounds, that is: Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition
Peterloo Poets Annual Open Competition

Or even, big mistakes?
www.Rejectionshow.com ‘tales of the failed, dumped and cancelled’

Is the play your thing?
24:7 Theatre Festival; 10play (profits to Barnados)

Super furry animals…
Cats Protection Short Story Competition

Dundee Book Prize; Listowel Writers Week;
Snowbound Series Chapbook Award
The People’s College Short Story Competition
Fish International Poetry Prize & One-Page Story Prize;
Thomas Hardy Society Poetry Competition