This year’s awards ceremony will be held at the Arnolfini arts centre, located on Bristol’s vibrant harbourside
Prizes: 1st £500 plus £150 Waterstone’s gift card; 2nd £350 plus £100 Waterstone’s gift card; 3rd £200 plus £100 Waterstone’s gift card. The other 17 writers whose stories are published in the anthology will each receive a cheque for £50. There is a £7 entry fee for each story submitted. Max. word count is 3,000, no minimum.
Stories can be submitted online or by post.
Full Details HERE
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s long as your entry is connected to Wales in some way then the genre is your choice. You can submit poetry (up to 40 lines), short stories (up to 1000 words), micro-fiction (up to 300 words) and illustrations.
The winning and outstanding entries will be published in the forthcoming Leaf Writing magazine, to be launched in Spring 2010. These, and further commended entries, will also be published in an anthology.
More Details HERE
All you have to do is write a short story (for adults) of no more than 2,000 words, on the theme of ‘Unity or Union’ and email it to competition@acblack.com with ‘WAYB10 competition’ as the subject line.
Arvon provides residential creative writing courses at four beautiful, historic houses around the UK. Their courses – tutored by professional, published writers – are world famous for the inspiration they provide to writers at every stage of their writing lives.
*Courses are subject to availability at the time of booking.
The closing date is 14 February 2010.
You’ll Find Rules And Full Details HERE
]]>The Kerry Group Irish fiction Award.
The Bryan Mac Mahon Short Story Award.
Duais Foras Na gaeilge.
Eamon Keane Full Length Play.
Writer’s Week Originals Competition.
Writing in Prisons.
The Single Poem Competition.
The Collection of Poetry Competition.
Irish post/Stena Line New writing competition.
Fiction Slam competition.
Kerry County Council creative writing competition for youth.
‘Tell your Story’
Rules and details HERE
]]>To enter, all you have to do is follow us on Twitter and either ‘direct message’ us or include @hallmarkcards in your Tweet, so we get a copy then we can add you to the list. Remember, anything goes so be creative, and don’t be afraid of using text speak or abbreviations!
We will make sure we share the best entries with you all.
For full terms and conditions, click here.
]]>Entrance costs £2. To enter, firstly make the payment using the Paypal button below. Please ensure you enter your Ladder Writers username so I know who it is who has made the payment! Once you have done so please email me your entry/entries with your username as the subject, to contests@ladderwriters.com.
If you live outside the UK you can still take part.
You’ll find more details HERE
]]>Short films must be less then 15 pages
Enteries by August 31
You’ll find more details HERE
]]>by Patricia Boies
I was still sixteen, a freshman like you, when we met, you who would become my first love, my first lover. I had a crush on you from the start, your thick curly dark hair exploding under the wide brim of your black felt hat, your smooth olive skin that needed no shaving, your crooked front tooth, your long lean body, the battered cane you carried because of your knee operation. I was shy and you were shyer, so even though we spent months hanging out with the gang, my eyes on you as the joint passed and the music played in all those dorm rooms, at all those concerts, even though we hitchhiked from Boston to Ithaca in the middle of winter, huddling close in the phone booth after the state trooper threw us off the highway, it was not until April, spring breaking out all over, that I told your best friend how much I liked you, and he told you, and so it began.
You can find more details of the contest and read the rest of the story HERE
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