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Poole Literary Festival invites entries for its New Media Writing Prizes

Posted by Kathleen Inglis
at March 11, 2010
Poole Literary Festival invites entries for its New Media Writing Prizes

As part of the inaugural Poole Literary Festival writers are challenged to enter the New Media Writing Prize, which embraces new ways of sharing writing with an audience. The work must have been written specifically for reading or viewing on new media, including on computers, mobile phones and DVD/CD ROM.

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Albedo One invites entries for the fifth Aeon Award short fiction contest

Posted by Frank Ludlow
at March 10, 2010
Albedo One invites entries for the fifth Aeon Award short fiction contest

Albedo One, Ireland’s magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, is proud to announce the fifth International Aeon Award short fiction contest. The grand prize is €1,000 and publication in Albedo One. Second and third place stories win €200 and €100 respectively, alongside publication in Albedo One magazine.

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Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest invites imaginative entries

Posted by David Bright
at February 25, 2010
Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest invites imaginative entries

Gemini Magazine is seeking imaginative entries for our Short Story Contest. The winning story-writer will receive a grand prize of $1,000. Second place wins $100 and there will be three Honorable Mentions. All five finalists will be published in the June issue of Gemini. There are no restrictions on content, style, genre or length.

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Memoir (and) literary journal seeks submissions for their memoir-writing contest

Posted by Judy Darley
at February 10, 2010
Memoir (and) literary journal seeks submissions for their memoir-writing contest

Memoir (and) is a nonprofit literary journal that publishes traditional as well as nontraditional forms of nonfiction allied with memoir. They are currently seeking entries for their memoir-writing contest. The entries can be in the form of autobiography, autobiographical fiction, “flash memoir,” poetry or graphic memoir.

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Orbis seeks number-specific entries for their latest creative writing competition

Posted by Kathleen Inglis
at February 4, 2010
Orbis seeks number-specific entries for their latest creative writing competition

Orbis is is a long-standing quarterly international literary journal edited by Carole Baldock. To celebrate 40 years of Orbis, and with the next issue being the big 150th issue, plus Carole Baldock’s 30th issue as editor, Orbis are seeking submissions of poems, short shorts and intros to short stories with a very specific remit.

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Boost your fashion writing career by becoming a GQ fashion blogger

Posted by Judy Darley
at January 28, 2010
Boost your fashion writing career by becoming a GQ fashion blogger

Incisive, witty and so influential they sit on the front row at the shows, GQ’s bloggers provide commentary at the click of a mouse, not just breaking news but making it too. As always ready for the next big thing, GQ has launched a competition to discover the pre-eminent fashion blogger writing today.

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The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook invites entries of short stories on the theme of Unity

Posted by Kathleen Inglis
at January 20, 2010
The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook invites entries of short stories on the theme of Unity

The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and the Arvon Foundation are seeking entries on the subject of Unity or Union for their 2010 Short Story Competition. Prizes include a place on an Arvon Foundation residential writing course, as well as a cash prize of £500 and publication on the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook website.

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Mslexia welcomes entries for their second annual Women’s Short Story Competition

Posted by Judy Darley
at January 13, 2010
Mslexia welcomes entries for their second annual Women’s Short Story Competition

As part of its efforts to promote the work of women who write, UK-based quarterly magazine Mslexia is inviting entries for their second annual Women’s Short Story Competition. Bestselling novelist Tracey Chevalier will select a winner to receive a top prize of £2,000, as well as a week’s writing retreat and a day with a Virago editor.

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