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

Posted by Kathleen Inglis

January 20, 2010

The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and the Arvon Foundation are seeking entries for their 2010 Short Story Competition for published and aspiring writers alike. Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook and the Arvon Foundation have both helped numerous authors on their way to literary success. Now it could be your turn.

How to enter this Creative Writing Competition

Run in partnership with The Arvon Foundation, the competition invites you to write a short story for adults of no more than 2,000 words, on the theme of Unity or Union and email it to competition@acblack.com with *WAYB10 competition* as the subject line.

The benefits of entering this Creative Writing Competition

In 2009, the competition attracted over 1,500 entries, all on the theme of Conflict, with subjects as varied as immigration, war-torn countries, religious divides, weight-gain, serial killers, vampires, werewolves, witches and zombies.

Arvon provides residential creative writing courses tutored by professional, published writers at four beautiful, historic houses around the UK. If your submission is judged to be the best story, you will get to sample one first-hand as the prizes include a place on an Arvon Foundation residential writing course worth at least £575, as well as a cash prize of £500 and publication of your story on the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook website.