ShortWrites competition

Competitions

ShortWrites has relaunched with a brand new look and to celebrate this, we have decided to run a new competition for the best Short Story submitted to us. So, if you think you have what it takes to write a prize winning short story, then see details below as to the prizes, terms and at the bottom of the page you can submit your story to us.
We plan to run competitions on a regular basis, so make sure you check back monthly to see what our latest competitions are.

 Prizes for the competition will be:

1st Place: £200 and an eBook publishing package**
2nd Place: £100
3rd Place: £50

• Entries are free, but Entrants need to be a member of shortwrites.com in order to enter.
• We will accept up to 3 entries per member
• Closing date for entries is midnight on Saturday, 30th November 2013
• Results of the completion will be posted on the site on Wednesday 18th December and the winners will be contacted on that day.
• All entries have to be original and cannot have been previously published in any form.
• The minimum number of words per entry is 500 and the maximum number is 5000.
• Stories can be from any category
• All entries may be posted on shortwrites.com

** The eBook publishing package will include design and layout of a book of up to 200 pages of text, one round of corrections, design of book cover, conversion into PDF, ePub and Mobi files, listing on appropriate websites.