WoW CreativeWritingMatters Short Story Competition 2015 The 2015 Wow! One Thousand Words competition is now open for submissions. First Prize – £200 Second Prize – £100 Third Prize – £50 Closing date – 31st May 2015 Entry fee – £5 Why one thousand words? Because it’s an acceptable word count for most commercially-published short fiction.
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Creative Writing Matters are inviting submissions of stories up to 10,000 words for their 2015 Exeter Story Prize. All the information can be found here: http://www.creativewritingmatters.co.uk/2015-exeter-story-prize.html Closing date 30th April 2015.
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It’s World Book Day on Thursday 5th March 2015 – the perfect opportunity to celebrate books and reading. There’s lots happening all over the country, with events taking place at schools, libraries and other public places. For more information have a look at the official World Book Day website: http://worldbookday.com
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Enter Short Story and Poetry writing competitions for your chance to see your winning entry in print and win a cash prize! The competitions have writing prizes of £200 and £50 for short stories, and £100 and £50 for poetry competitions. They are open to all writers, requiring a £5 entry fee, or £3 if you are a Writing Magazine subscriber.
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Travel writing competition Your travel writing could earn you £1,000 for the ‘Just Back’ article of the year. The weekly prize is £200 from the Post Office. Email your entry, in 500 words (with the text in the body of the email), to justback@telegraph.co.uk by midnight on Wednesdays. All the details can be found here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/4207858/Telegraph-Travel-Just-Back-competition-terms-and-conditions.html
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Are you aged between 5 and 13 ? Have you written a super fantastic short story? Enter the 500 WORDS competition! Entries must be received by Thursday 26 February. For all the details visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1
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Once a year a window opens for new writers with no experience of radio to submit a short story to Opening Lines – BBC Radio 4’s showcase for short stories. For all the details go to: http://bridgetwhelan.com/2015/01/05/write-for-bbc-radio/ Entries must be received by Friday 13 February.
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JASON TITLEY. You are the WINNER chosen at random for our prize Facebook Christmas giveaway ! CONGRATULATIONS and Happy New Year !
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WIN a free CD or download of Jonathan Barnes first short ghost story: SKAYNE 1. The Library at Iffley Tower (chose from audiobook or eBook). All you need to do is ‘Like’ the Facebook Page of Red Raygun Ltd https://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Raygun-Ltd/1515364535365833?ref=hl One winner will be chosen at random when the page gets to 100 likes – 9 more likes to
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