writing competitions
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As promised last week, I’m delighted to announce the results of my flash fiction competition. Please read the simply brilliant winning entries below and the judge’s comments following. An enormous thank you to all those who entered. You made it extremely difficult for me to choose. I read, re-read and read yet again, all the…
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This week’s market is a fantastic one (not that I’m biased being a WB tutor, or anything!). The Writers Bureau is inviting entries for its annual Limerick Competition. Here are a few details for you: Prizes: 1st Prize: £100 plus a Writers Bureau Course worth over £350 Runners up: £50 will go to two runners…
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Whether you’re a poet, short story writer or novelist, this week’s market could be for you. The Yeovil Literary Prize has been going for thirteen year now and they’re inviting entries for four different categories: NOVEL: You can send in the opening chapters of your novel and the synopsis, up to 15,000 words. SHORT STORY: Short…
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A short while ago, I launched my two short story competitions (with prizes!) One of the competitions is for a flash fiction story of up to 100 words. The entries have already started coming in and there are stories which have made me gasp, others which have made me think wow, I wish I’d written that…
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This week’s market is brought to you by the wonderful Sacha Black. Enormous thanks goes to her for bringing this one to my attention. Brilliant Flash Fiction is holding a spring flash fiction competition on the theme of the future. There’s no entry fee so you’ve nothing to lose by entering. Prizes are as follows:…
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My market for you this week is a 100-word flash fiction competition held annually by Reader’s Digest. With free entry and a first prize of £2000, it’s definitely worth entering. There are also prizes of £200 each for two runners-up. To find out more, visit the website. You have until February 20th to submit your…
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A lot of you enjoy writing flash fiction. Here’s an excellent competition for you. The Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2016 is currently accepting entries of up to 300 words. Prizes: 1st: €1,000 2nd: online writing course with Fish The closing date is 28th February 2016. Ten stories will be published in the 2016 Fish Anthology.…
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Some of the markets I highlight have very short deadlines. My market for you today gives you plenty of time to craft your story. The Christopher Fielden Annual Short Story Competition “To Hull & Back” is now accepting entries, but you have until 31st July 2016 to send your entry. It’s a humorous writing competition…
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This week, I’m giving you two choices: you can either write a ten-word story using five words from the list given, or you can write an autumnal themed story/poem from the second list: Option one: Choose five words from the following list and write a ten-word story: Aeolist Giraffe Osteopath Dompteuse Farctate Boris Gongoozler Beer…
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Sacha Black has kindly given her permission for me to pinch a couple of words from her blog ‘The Zen of Finding Lost Words’. So here is your new list for this week’s ten-word story challenge. Your story can be under ten words, but no more than ten and it must feature five words from…
Esther Chilton 