writing competition
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This week’s challenge is a fun one (I hope!) I’d love to see your creations using the following five words, which must appear somewhere in your story or poem: Murder Midnight Mask Maltesers Mud Hope that gets you thinking! Here are last week’s entries from my photo prompt: I dare you not to be drawn
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Last week, you were set a picture prompt as your challenge and you produced some fantastic pieces of writing. Well done you! Please read all the entries below. As last week’s challenge proved popular, I’ll set you another picture challenge: Sacha Black‘s response to the challenge was almost immediate! She really has a talent for
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I’ve had my job made easy for me again thanks to Sacha Black. She really has been wonderful in sending through details of competitions. Last week’s market had a very short deadline so you’ll be pleased to know this week’s is over three months away. ‘The Writers’ Village‘ is holding a short story competition with
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Well, some of you certainly enjoyed last week’s writing challenge – Keith Channing! Scroll down to read some simply brilliant limericks. This week’s writing challenge will gradually wean Keith off the limericks – it’s for a rhyming poem. Not every line has to rhyme, but they can if you like. It can be as short
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My market for you this week (especially for Keith Channing!) is a limerick competition. The Writers Bureau/Freelance Market News are holding a competition for the best limerick. £100 goes to the winner, plus a Writers Bureau course of his/her choice. There are also two runner-up prizes of £50 plus a subscription to Freelance Market News.
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This week’s challenge is a fun one and it’s one I’ve set before – the beloved limerick! Here’s a reminder of how to write one:Traditional limericks have five lines, where the first, second and fifth lines rhyme, with seven to ten syllables in each line. The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and
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Last week I gave you an opening line for a story or poem; this week’s writing challenge is about a closing line. Your line is, Phew, that was a close one! Let your imaginations run riot! Now, onto last week’s stories and poems, which opened with the line, ‘I knew I didn’t like her as soon
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The Fiction Desk’s Annual Ghost Story. I have Geoff Le Pard to thank for this week’s market. The Fiction Desk publish fiction of between 2000 – 11000 words (see my ‘More Markets For Freelancers Page’ for more info) They also hold regular competitions and are currently holding a ghost story competition, with a first prize
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Last week, I asked you to scare me and to send me your dark tales. You certainly did (please read them below). Next week, I’d like your story or poem to begin with the words, ‘I knew I didn’t like her as soon as I saw her’. ‘Her’ could be a teacher, a new neighbour,
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Last week Rajiv sent me a gripping story; it didn’t fit with last week’s challenge, but it got me thinking about making this week’s challenge a ‘Dark Tales’ one. So please send in your ghost, crime, thriller, horror etc. stories/poems/articles for this week’s challenge. I look forward to being scared! Here are last week’s fantastic
Esther Chilton 