Page Last Updated: 26 July 2010
Please note that all details are subject to change. Always check the latest rules with the individual competition organisers.
15th November
Short Story Radio Romance Award 2011
Story: 4000 wds. Theme: Romantic fiction of the kind found in women's magazines. Fee: £7. Prize: £50 and broadcast. Details: Web post Short Story Radio Romance Award 2011, Wyndham Granite, PO Box 1302, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, HP4 9AE
30th November
Novel: word length not stated, but can be published or unpublished. Rules: writers must be under 35. Fee: FREE. Prizes: Share of prize fund totalling £20,000 which must be used for travel. Details: web post Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9S
Bridge House Short Story Comp 2010
Story: 5000 wds. Theme: Write a story that took place at the same as a famous world-stopping event. i.e. President Kennedy's assassination or The Twin Towers. Fee: £5 of which £1 goes to The Born Free Foundation. Prizes: 6 mnth one-to-one mentoring with CW lecturer/written critique of a novel or up to 10 stories. Details: web http://bridgehousepublishing.co.uk/2010ShortStoryCompetion.aspx
Cinnamon Press Poetry/Short Story/Novella Awards
Novel/Novella: 1st 10k words. Poems: 10 poems up to 40 lines. Story: 2-4000 wds. Fee: £16 each category. Prizes: £100 (poetry), £100 (story) £400 (novel/novella). Details: web post Cinnamon Press Novel Writing Award, Ty Meirion, Glan yr afon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 3SU.
Grist International Writing Comp
Stories: 3500 words max. Poems: 40 lines max. Fee: £5 per poem or short story. Prizes: £500/£250/£100 Entry: web: post: The School of Music,
Humanities and Media, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH
The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prize
Story: 4000 wds. Serial/Novella: 20000 wds. Poems: Single poems up to 40 lines. Collections 6-10 poems. Articles (literary theme) 2000 wds. Fees: £5 story or up to 2 poems. £15 serial/novella. £12 poetry collections. Prizes: stories/poetry collections £300/£200/£100. Novella £300. Single poem/Articles £100/£75/£50. Details: Enter online at Web (or email admin@thenewwriter.com with queries) The New Writer, PO Box 60, CRANBROOK, TN17 2RE