WoW Creative Writing Matters Short Story Competition 2014
Could you wow with a wonderful story in one thousand words?
The people over at Creative Writing Matters are running a short story competition.
The first prize is £200, second prize is £100 and the third prize £50
There is still time to enter with the closing date being the 31st May 2014.
The entry fee is £5 through Paypal.
To enter:
In the subject line of your email, type WoW followed by the title of your story. In the body of the email type your name, contact details (postal address and phone number, mobile and/or landline) and the title of your story. Email your story as an attachment (in doc, docx, pdf or rtf format) to creativewritingmatters@virginmedia.com. Your attachment should have the same title as your story.
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Luke Bitmead Bursary 2014
Luke Bitmead
Submissions are now being excepted for the 2014 Luke Bitmead Bursary.
This award was set up by Luke’s family shortly after his death in 2006 to support and encourage the work of fledgling novel writers and is now the UK’s biggest award for unpublished authors.
Luke Bitmead was the first novelist to be published by Legend Press. His novel White Summer was released in 2006 shortly before his death. Two novels have been published posthumously – The Body is a Temple and Heading South (co-authored by Catherine Richards).
This is the bursary’s seventh year. Previous winners include Andrew Blackman and his novel, On the Holloway Road, Ruth Dugdall and her book, The Woman Before Me, Sophie Duffy with The Generation Game, J.R. Crook and Sleeping Patterns, Joanne Graham and her novel, Lacey’s House and finally last year’s winner Jo Gatford. Her novel, White Lies was published on 1st May 2014.
The top prize is a publishing contract with Legend Press, and a £2500 bursary. Continue reading
by How To Write For Children
Guardian Masterclass: write stories to fascinate and entertain the toughest audience in literature.
This one-day workshop will teach you the skills essential to keeping a young audience enthralled by your storytelling.
The Boy Who Fell From the Sky, by Lucy Coats, illustrated by Anthony Lewis Photograph: guardian.co.uk
The aim of the masterclass is for all participants to go away equipped with a wider knowledge of what writing children’s (aged 7–12) books is all about and there is still time to book a place.
The tutor will be editor and writer, Lucy Coats and the speaker will be historical fiction author, Michelle Lovric.
This course is running in London on Wednesday 7th May or Saturday 31st May 2014 from 10am -5 pm. The course price is £220* and will cover a range of topics including how to build a good children’s book character, planning a perfect plot and an overview of the children’s book world.
This course is for people who have an interest in writing for children as a possible career, a casual source of income or simply for a unique and personalised way of creating fiction to read to your own children.
For more information and booking information, click here.
*price correct at time of publication.
by The Bridport Prize, 2014
The Bridport Prize’s mission is to ‘encourage emerging writers and to promote literary excellence.’
The closing date for the prize is Saturday 31st May 2014 and it’s open to all nationalities. You must be aged 16 or over. They offer three categories – Poems, Short Stories and now Flash Fiction. Overall, there is over £15,000 in prize money.
The poem and short story categories each have a first prize of £5,000. The second prize offered is £1,000 and the third prize is £500. An additional 10 supplementary prizes (for each category) will be awarded £50 each.
The short stories have a word limit of 5,000 words (not including the title,) and are £9 per story entered. The poems should be no longer than 42 lines and it’s £8 per poem entered.
by The Brighton Prize
A new annual short story competition.
The Brighton Prize is being run by Rattle Tales and they are looking for new, original writing.
The competition is for short stories of any genre or subject, between 1,000 – 2,000 words.
The first prize is £400 plus two runner up prizes of £50. All three winners will be invited to attend The Brighton Festival Fringe Show on 14th May to read their stories.
This competition closes on 1st April (and you need to be 18 or over on this date to enter,) and entry is only £6.
The Judges are Bethan Roberts and Laura Lockington.
For more information on The Brighton Prize and Rattle Tales, click here.
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