Fancy yourself as the next Maeve Binchy? Well get those fingers tapping for the 2011 RTÉ Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story competition. Donal O’Donoghue reports Writing a short story should be easy. After all how tough can it be to patch together two thousand or so words into a ripping yarn? So last year I had [...]
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The competition is open to unpublished women novelists writing in any genre for adults, including literary fiction, women’s fiction, young adult fiction, science fiction, fantasy, chick-lit, crime fiction, thriller, historical fiction… but not nonfiction or fiction for under 13s. To constitute a novel, your book must total at least 50,000 words. Send up to 5,000 [...]
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The Fine Line’s inaugural short story competition is now open for entries. Whatever your taste, style or inspiration, submit your tale and you could win £200 ($320/€230) and publication in The Fine Line Short Story Collection. A percentage of all entry fees goes to charity so you’ll be doing good while getting your work out [...]
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The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream… Write a poem or short story for a chance to win [...]
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ABC Writers Network offer a fully searchable list of writing competitions mainly in the UK and Ireland but with a scattering from around the English speaking world. We hope to make the list more international in the months ahead. Here’s our current offering for March 2011 We update our database twice weekly and are in [...]
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