Ilkley Literature Festival

Entry deadline - Sept 1^st 09

Short Story competition prize: £200

Entry fee: £4 per story or poem.

Send Entries send to:

ILF, Manor House,

2 Castle Hill,

Ilkley LS29 9DT.

For more information visit: http://www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/user/Competition.php  
 


Cooldog Competitions

Entry Deadline: 31/08/09

Short story and poetry prizes:

1^st place: £100 2^nd place: £50 3^rd place: £25

Entry fee: £3.00 per story

Enter Online and for more info: http://www.cooldog.co.uk/competitions/

Short Story Competition Number 3 - Summer Scares

Summer - lazy days, hot nights, travel, adventure. Strange places, dangerous people, too much fun. It's a heady mix. Tell us stories of when it went wrong, when it got scary.

Work must be original and unpublished.  


The Annual Creative Works Competition

Entry Deadline: 31^st August 09

3 Winners: £500 each

3 categories: Artwork and photography, fiction and poetry

Entry fee: £10

For more information visit: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm  
 


Bridport Prize
 
Entry Deadline: 
Short Stories 
5000 words maximum (no minimum) 
1st = £5000 (approx. 7100 US$) 
2nd = £1000 (approx. 1400 US$) 
3rd = £500 (approx. 700 US$) 
10 supplementary prizes of £50 each

Entry Fee: £7 per story

Enter online or print entry form and for more information visit: http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/stories.htm

Whitby Abbey ‘Pure Inspiration’ Writing Competition

Closing date: 4th September 2009 (noon). Free entry.

Essential that the Abbey feature in the story even if the story isn’t actually set there. Fictional story with open genre - past, present or future. 

Four age categories with different word allowances: 11 and under - 500 words; 12 to 16 - 1,250 words; 17-21 - 2,500 words; over 21 - 2,500 words.

Prizes: The top stories will be published by English Heritage in a book entitled Whitby Abbey - Pure Inspiration each writers will be given two complimentary copies.

All entries should be emailed to whitbystorytelling@fim.org.uk ,

For more information visi: http://www.englishheritage.org.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.16357  


The WriteVoice 2009 Story competition

Write a short story of not more than 7000 words and is open to anybody over the age of 16. The theme for this year is 'Revenge'.

Closing date: 30^th September 2009.

Entry fee: £5.

Prizes: £250/£100/£25

To enter and for more information visit: www.writevoice.co.uk   


Summer Shorts Fiction writing competitions

Competition A

(max 5000 words)

To write a story on the theme: ‘if only’

Closing date: 30^th Sept 09


Competition B

(max 5000 words)

To write a story on the theme: ‘memories’

Closing date: 30^th sept 09


Competition C

(max 5000 words)

To write a story: any theme

Entry Deadline: 31^st October 09

Prizes for these three categories:

1st prize   £150 ($245 / 175 Euros)

2nd prize £70 ($115 / 80 Euros)

Three runner up prizes of

£25 ($40 / 30 Euros) each

fee:  £6  ($10 / 7 Euros) per entry (multiple entries accepted) 


Each first-prize winner to be published on their website

All competitions are open to anyone over the age of 16 years from anywhere.

Entries must be in English and not have been previously published. 


For more information visit: http://www.storyshorts.co.uk#/competitions/4534747488  


Theatre Royal Onwards want your stories! 

Cash prizes for winners and publication for all runners up.

Entries not to exceed 1200 words.

For more information and competition rules and entry form, please go to www.theatreroyalhyde.org  

Closing date: 31st January 2010

1^st place -  £50 and publication

2^nd place - £30 and publication

3^rd place - £20 and publication

All runners up will be published in the anthology. 


Short story competition


The theme is a ‘slice of life’

The winner will have their story recorded by a professional actor and broadcast via our website and will also receive a free critique from best-selling writer Sophie King of the first 4,000 words of a short story or novel.

Entry fee: £5

Deadline: 4^th Sept 09

Enter at the website and for more information: http://www.shortstoryradio.com/short_story_competitions.htm  
 

The global short story competition

Maximum amount: 2,500 words with any theme
Must be 17years and over and the story must be written in English.
Entry fee: £5
There will be a cash prize every month for the short story of £100 and an annual prize of £250 and the story will be published on the website.
For more information visit the website: http://www.globalshortstories.net/rules.html