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Just a Contest is a website dedicated to writing contests. Browse our pages: you'll find dozens of competitions, grouped by genre (fiction, non-fiction and poetry, with or without entry fee) and by deadline. Use our calendar, selecting your favorite category.
Delizon publishers Annual Short Story Competition 2012: Top prize $1200. We are looking for a story that is bold, brilliant and brief - no more than 1500 words long. Entry closes 15th April 2012. For more information see www.delizonpublishers.com/22.news
Country pub collection Vintage Inns are asking you to help complete an eight-line poem, line by line. Just visit http://www.facebook.com/vintageinns to submit your entry. Alternatively, entries can be emailed to pubpoet@gmail.com with full name, address and contact telephone number. Each week Sir Andrew Motion will choose a winner, who'll receive one of his signed books plus dinner for four with wine at their local Vintage Inn.
Slipstream Poets invite entries to their Open Poetry Competition 2012 on the theme ‘Encounters’. Poems up to 60 lines. Prizes - £250; £100; £75; 2 x £10. Adjudicator – Fay Marshall. Closing date 31st January 2012. Additional local prize for West Sussex entrants. Full details on the Slipstream web site at www.slipstream-poets.co.uk
Exeter Writers Short Story Competition 2012 is for stories in any genre up to 3,000 words. Prizes are £250, £100, £50 plus publication on our website with an additional Devon Prize of £50 for a story from a Devon writer. Entry fee £4 per story. Details on www.exeterwriters.org.uk or send s.a.e. to Competition, 4 Albion Place, Exeter EX4 6LH. Closing date 31 March 2012.
Our winter competition has now opened (1st October- 31st December). We've been running quarterly competitions since spring 2009.
  • • Winter Short Story Competiton
    • Story: Open Theme/Genre, 3000 words max
    • Prizes: £100, £50 & £25 plus firstwriter.com vouchers
    • Fee: £5 per story
    • Eligibility: Open to new and published authors, see website for full details
    • Closing Date: 31st December
    • Critique service available
    • Website: www.meridian-writing.co.uk

    • Welcome to     Just a Contest, the website dedicated to writing contests. Browse our pages: you'll find dozens of competitions, grouped by genre (fiction, non-fiction and poetry, with or without entry fee) and by deadline. Use our calendar, selecting your favorite category.
    - Are you a United States Writer? Take a look to our list of writing contests for United States writers. You'll find what you are looking for. Click here.
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    The Write Place….2b are running 2 competitions during 2011. The first is for adults over the age of 16 and the Second is for children under the age of 16. For fuller details visit http://www.thewriteplace.co.uk/page16.html

    The Write Place Open Short Story Competition. Prizes: 1st £100, 2nd £75, 3rd £50. Entry fee: £5 per entry. Open Theme, 1,500 words max. Judge: Linda Lewis. Closing Date: 31st August 2011
    Details: from f.capaldi.burgess@btinternet.com Or visit www.thewriteplace.org.uk


    www.brightoncow.co.uk We will run four short story competitions in 2011. The deadlines will be the end of February, May, August and November. We are planning some fun free to enter contests too. Our main writing competitions have an open theme with a 3,000 word limit. There are three prizes to the top three winning writers of £100, £50 and £25. There will also be the opportunity for the stories to be published on our website as well as being recorded for broadcast on Brighton’s Coastway Hospital Radio, which provides music and entertainment to a network of Brighton hospitals. The entry fee is just £4 and can be paid via PayPal or cheque, and the competition is open to writers worldwide. Stories can be submitted online along with payment or by post with a cheque. We will notify all entrants of receipt of their story. Each entry will be judged impartially and be read at least twice in full before judging decisions are made.


    ‘Great to sit down with a coffee, and see what competitions and opportunities are available rather than trawl the internet, which feels too much like work’
    (Lyn Fountain, Norwich Writers’ Circle)
    Kudos  JANUARY/FEBRUARY Runs mainly from the end of January right up to mid March, and beyond in some cases –
    Visit www.kudoswritingcompetitions.com

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