writing markets
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This week’s market is ‘The First Line Literary Journal‘. Here’s what they have to say about themselves: ‘The purpose of The First Line is to jump start the imagination–to help writers break through the block that is the blank page. Each issue contains short stories that stem from a common first line; it also provides
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This week’s market is The Flash 500 Novel Opening Chapter and Synopsis Competition. It’s a fantatsic opportunity to have your work looked at by editors from independent genre publishers Crooked Cat. They’re looking for the opening chapter of your novel, up to 3000 words and a one-page synopsis. First prize is £500 and there’s a
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For those of you looking for a new market for your short stories, why not try The Writer’s ‘Two Roads Diverge’ Short Story Contest? They have this to say about it: ‘Write a 2,000-word short story responding to one or both quotes by novelist and short story writer Colum McCann (and perhaps keep in mind
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My heart-felt thanks goes, yet again, to the brilliant Sacha Black for making my job easy and suggesting another market. This week it’s The Bath Flash Fiction Award. The competition is an on-going one and entries of up to 300 words are invited. There’s an entry fee of £9 and the prizes are as follows:
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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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This week’s market has been provided by the wonderful Sacha Black Writers Helping Writers hold a monthly competition for the opening first page of a novel. Writers have a specific time frame in which to send their e-mail address, genre of story and the intended audience. Three names are drawn at random. The ‘winners’
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This week’s market is Alfie Dog Fiction International Short Story Competition. 1st Prize: £200 and publication of a short story collection of 35,000 – 40,000 words 2nd Prize: Critique of stories to a total maximum word count of 10,000 words Closing date: 30th September 2015 To enter, send one story of between 1000 and 2000
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‘Wanderlust‘ is my market for you this week. They describe themselves as being a travel magazine ‘for people with a passion for travel’. Destinations the world over are covered. Thay particularly like ‘off-the-beaten-track destinations, secret corners of the world and unusual angles on well-known places are always of particular interest’. If you like travel writing
Esther Chilton 