writing competition
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Flash Fiction Competition Countdown! This week’s market is a reminder that you have less than two weeks to enter my 250-word flash fiction competition. Here are the essentail details: Prizes: 1st £50, 2nd £25, 3rd £10 Entry fee: £2 per story Word Limit: Stories of up to 250 words are invited on any theme. Payment
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I think I’m going to re-name this ‘My Daughter’ s Weekly Writing Challenge’! Her five compulsory words for you to make into a ten-word story for next week are: Spider-Man Catastrophic Shrimp Malodorous Callipygian Happy writing! Last weeks words were: Maraca Flabbergasted Ventriloquist Pensive Obama Here are the results: Sacha Black kicks us off with
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My market for you this week is the Ifanca Helene James Short Story Competition. The closing date for entries is 1st July 2015. Stories of up to 2200 words are invited. The prizes are as follows: 1st place: £100 plus a bottle of champagne 2nd place: £75 3rd place: £50 There’s an entry fee of
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My Monday Motivations post this week is a reminder that you have three weeks left to enter my flash fiction competition. Entries are invited on any theme and there’s a word limit of 250 words. 1st prize is £50, 2nd prize £25 and third prize £10. To find out more and to enter, click here
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My daughter seems to have a knack for coming up with great words for my weekly writing challenge and for stimulating your creativity. She’s come up with another five for you: maraca flabbergasted ventriloquist pensive Obama So, you can add another five words to make this into a ten-word story challenge. Off you go! Last
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During the last school holidays, my daughter came up with a fun challenge for you – five words to fit into a ten-word story. Well, she clearly doesn’t have enough homework this half-term as she’s come up with some more words for my latest challenge. These words are: Fedora Patagonia Pink Melancholy pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (apparently the
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Last week, I gave you the opening to your story, so this week, for my challenge, I’m going to give you the ending: She shook her head and smiled. The day hadn’t started well, but it had certainly ended with a bang. There are no word limits or themes. Why your character shook her head
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For my challenge this week, I’m going to give you the opening line to your story. There’s no word limit, so it can be as short or as long as you like. Here’s the line: John knew he’d gone too far this time – and there was no going back. Last week’s challenge was a
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For my challenge this week, I’m going to give you a random line, which must be included somewhere in your story. There’s no word limit, so it can be as short or as long as you like. Here’s the line: I can’t believe I’m actually going to do this, I thought. For last week’s challenge,
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My writing challenge for you this week is to write a 20-word story, using the words, ‘fairy’, ‘tomato’, ‘stroppy’, ‘nuzzling’ and ‘astronaut’. Should be interesting! Last week’s challenge gave you scope to write a longer story (a length of your own choosing) but it must feature the following words: ‘obstinate’, ‘lemon’, ‘diabolical’, ‘guzzling’ and ‘suave’.
Esther Chilton 