writing competition
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This week’s market is The Frome Festival Short Story competition. Entries of between 1000-2200 words are invited on an open theme. An entry fee of £5 is payable per entry. Prizes are as follows: 1st: £300 2nd: £150 3rd: £75 with extra prizes for local entrants. The closing date is 31st May 2015. Email: fromefestivalshortstorycomp@gmail.com
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A lot of you certainly had fun with last week’s writing challenge, which was to write a ten-word story, using the words ‘bamboozled’, ‘banoffee’, ‘Horatio’, ‘afro’ and ‘twerk’. Scroll down to see the hilarious results below. Now, onto this week’s challenge. This time there’s scope for you to write a longer story (a length of
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Last week my daughter came up with the words you needed to use in my ten-word story writing challenge (‘discombobulated’, ‘unicorn’, ‘bacon’ and ‘fabulous’). She clearly did a great job as you’ve all been taking up the challenge with great gusto (scroll down to see all the entries). So I thought I’d ask her again.
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My challenge for you last week was to fit the words: ‘Easter’, ‘bucket’ and ‘cat’ into a ten-word story. There was me thinking you’d find it difficult. “Difficult?” you all said, “nah, easy peasy!” Read the excellent stories below. So, this week’s challenge? It’s certainly toughter. I’m still looking for ten-word stories, but this week
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There I was, last week, thinking that I’d made things difficult for you by asking for a ten-word story using the words ‘potato’ and ‘Friday’ somewhere in the story. I wasn’t sure if I’d have many challengers at all. Boy, was I proved wrong! Read the fantastic results below. Right then, time to get tough.
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My market for you this week is a very special one – it’s the launch of my first short story competition! Over the years I’ve entered lots of writing competitions and been fortunate enough to win some. There’s no feeling quite like it so I thought I’d give someone the opportunity to enjoy that special
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Last week I set you the task of writing a story in ten words and you found it easy! So this week, I’m going to make it a little harder for you. I’d like another ten word story but this week, you need to find some way of using the words ‘potato’ and ‘Friday’ in
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Last week I set you a Monday Motivation Challenge Special: can you write a short story, where the first sentence starts with A, the next B and so on, right throuigh to Z? I wasn’t sure if any of you would want to take up the challenge, but you did! And brilliantly, too. Here are
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Last week’s challenge was a teeny tiny one inviting entries of only 20 words. You amazed me with your creativity and how you managed to craft a proper story in so few words. Enjoy reading the results below. On Monday I set a Challenge Special: can you write a short story, where the first sentence
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This week’s writing challenge is a fun one and it’s one I’ve set before. It’s to tell a story in only 20 words. It’s short and sweet so no excuses for not entering! Last week’s challenge was to write a story or poem using the following five words: Murder Midnight Mask Maltesers Mud Here are
Esther Chilton 