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.
- Because a page of print copy in a UK magazine is approximately one thousand words.
- Because a story might be too fat for five hundred words or too slender for three thousand.
- Because it’s a challenge!
But because we’re not too strict, we will allow up to fifty words over or under a thousand.
For all the details go to:
