writing competitions
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My ten-word story challenge from last week proved to be a great hit with you, so I thought I’d set another one. This time, you need to choose four from the following list: Epiphany Susurrous Tintinnabulation Scintillating Umbrella Unravel Ratatouille Corbyn If last week’s results were anything to go by, I can’t wait to read…
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I have to give another enormous thank you to Sacha Black for my market this week. It’s certainly a competition worth entering with a £10,000 prize. Here are the details: The Manchester Fiction Prize is an annual contest for short stories on any theme, up to 2500 words. The entry fee is £17.50, which is…
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I owe the wonderful Sacha Black a big thank you for this week’s market: Mash Competitions. These flash fiction competitions are run every quarter. They’re looking for stories of up to 500 words and have this to say: ‘Our competition rules are simple. Every three months, three random objects are selected from a randomly gathered…
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My market for you this week offers top prize money of £10,000 to both winners of its short story and poetry competitions. So the competitions are certainly worth entering! The Manchester Writing Competition is inviting entries for the best portfolio of between three to five poems (maximum combined length of 120 lines) and the best…
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My market for you this week is restricted to women, I’m afraid, but it is a good one. Mslexia are holding a novel competition for unpublished women novelists. The book can be in any genre, but must be at least 50,000 words in length and written for adults or young adults. The entry fee is…
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A huge thank you to Nica (Sacha Black) for sending me in last week’s market. Looks like I’m going to have give her another big thanks to her as she’s sent in another market. L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest is an US based writing competition for new science fiction and fantasy writers.…
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This is the last opportunity for you to take up the challenge in my latest series. This week, we reach the magical 100-word mark, so please send me your 100-word stories. You’ll have a little longer than usual as my Thursday challenge day falls on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, so the next challenge…
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This week’s market for you is a little different: ‘Txt Lit’ describes itself as ‘a new literary genre of creative writing using a mobile phone texting system, or SMS (Short Message System). At txtlit.co.uk we provide a platform where you can test your writing skill, have a chance to gain financially and have your work published on the Internet, through what we believe to…
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This week sees the penultimate round of my latest challenge series. Almost at the 100-word mark, this week please could you send me your 90-word stories? Here are last week’s brilliant 80-word reads: Keith Channing‘s story will bring a smile to your face: The alien arrived on the surface to take soil samples. Surveys showed…
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This week, I bring you details of an annual short story competition. ‘The Highlands and Islands Short Story Association’ competition always has an annual closing date of 31st July, so you have plenty of time to work on an entry. There is an entry fee of £5 per story. Prizes are as follows: First prize:…
Esther Chilton 