writing competitions
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For last week’s challenge, I wanted you to write a humorous piece and all your work made me smile. Thank you! This week, I’m going to give you a single line for a story/poem/article/anecdote. Now, this line can appear anywhere in your work – at the beginning, middle, end or somewhere in between. It’s all…
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I asked for chills last week with my challenge for a ghost story or poem. Thank you to all those who entered. You can see the results below. This week’s challenge takes you from a ghostly theme to a humorous one. I’d like you to make me smile or laugh out loud. You can send…
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Last week’s ‘last line’ challenge caused a few problems with some writers contacting me to say they’d sit this one out. So I thought I’d keep this week’s new challenge simple and give you a theme: A ghost story/poem. I want to feel goosebumps as I read it so the scarier the better! Huge congratulations…
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It seems as if flash fiction is a firm favourite amongst you and I received some hugely entertaining stories for my weekly challenge last week. See them below. My new weekly challenge builds on the opening line challenge from a fortnight ago. This time I’m giving you the last line of a story: Perhaps tomorrow…
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I had some very interesting, intriguing and exciting interpretations of my opening line challenge: ‘She wished she hadn’t opened the letter’. Read them below and enjoy. Yesterday my market of the week was for a daily flash fiction competition, which invites stories of between 20-100 words. So to get you in the mood to enter,…
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Well, thank you Barb for last week’s inspirational challenge. It certainly inspired and there are some strong, emotive pieces for you all to read below. If any of you have any ideas for one of my weekly writing challenges, please contact me. I’d love to know your thoughts. My new challenge for you is…
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Thank you to Eddy, Alexandra and Jasdeep for the wonderful, emotive diary entries they sent in for my challenge last week. They’re published below. I’m sure you would all like to congratulate Jasdeep for her recent special mention in ‘The Global Short story‘ 100-word competition. Please let me know of any successes you have and I’ll put them…
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As I promised last week, if you felt inspired to send me a limerick, you’ll find it here, as well as my new challenge for you at the end. Remember, I’ll publish each one on my blog this time next week. This great limerick from Keith Channing gets the ball rolling: A trendy young…
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The Global Short Story Free Flash Fiction Competition My market for you this week is a 100-word flash fiction competition but you’ll need to get your skates on as the closing date is 13th May 2014. It’s free to enter and all you need to do is place your story in the comments box on…
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Written Warning! I’ve written about the importance of following the rules when entering a writing competition before. One very important rule to take notice of is the closing date of the competition. If this is the 30th April, for example, don’t leave it to that date to send your entry off. Some competitions will accept…
Esther Chilton 