Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition offers both existing and aspiring writers the chance to showcase their work to a wider, international audience.

Now in its sixth year, the competition celebrates and nurtures creative talent, inviting writers to submit imaginative and original work in either category for entry: Poetry or Short Fiction.

Prizes include £500 prize money, publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual and a selection of books from partner organisations. Submissions previously published elsewhere are accepted. Deadline 31 August.

For more information please visit the website.

Park Publications U.k. Short Story competitions

THE SCRIBBLE (incorporating Debut) QUARTERLY SHORT STORY COMPETITIONS

Short stories on any subject. Max. 3000 words. Entry fee…£3.00. With critique: £5.00. Cheques payable to Park Publications.

FREE ENTRY FOR ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS.

Prizes of £75.00, £25.00, and £15.00 for the best three stories in each issue of Scribble, as chosen by the readers.

These competitions are ongoing: no closing date. Please see Scribble guidelines for further information or send s.a.e. for our leaflet 'Writing For Scribble'.

Annual subscribers can enter these competitions by email, free. Subscribe online now by going to the ‘Scribble’ page.

ARTICLE COMPETITION

2013

Theme: 'My Writing Day'.

Your article should be an entertaining account of a typical day in your writing life. Tell us how you approach things. Are you a 'planner' or do you write on impulse and just let the words flow? Where do you get your ideas? Where do you write? How does your writing affect your family/relationships?

Articles should be between 1000 and 1500 words.

Prizes: £50.00. £25.00. £15.00.

Closing Date: August 31st 2013.

Entry Fee: £3.00. Cheques payable to Park Publications. Free entry for annual subscribers.

The winning entry will appear in the autumn 2013 issue of Scribble, which will be published during September. Other winners and selected short-listed entries will be published in subsequent editions.

THE SCRIBBLE THEMED SHORT STORY COMPETITION

2013 Theme: ‘A GHOST STORY’

(Please DO NOT use the theme as your title)

Max. length: 3000 words.

Closing Date: November 1st, 2013

Prizes: £100.00. £50.00. £25.00.

Entry fee: £4.00. per story.

Cheques/Postal orders payable to Park Publications

FREE entry for all annual subscribers to our magazines

Glimmer Train Short Story Competition

Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers Deadline: August 31, 2013

Prizes: 1st place wins $1,500 and, of course, publication in Glimmer Train Stories. 2nd place wins $500, or, if chosen for publication, $700. 3rd place wins $300 or, if published, $700.

The Manchester Poetry Prize

The 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize

First Prize :	£10,000*
Entry Fee :	£17
Deadline for Entries :	Friday 30th August 2013

“It’s a delight to give money to poets!” National Poet for Wales Gillian Clarke, Judge 2008

“Asking for a batch of poems rather than a single entry allows judges to look beyond competency and control in writing and to reward other virtues, such as risk-taking, inventiveness and sustained achievement.” Simon Armitage, Chair of Judges 2010

“We hope this is a boost to all [the short-listed poets’] careers and not just that of the winner.” Adam O’Riordan, Chair of Judges 2012 and 2013

Under the direction of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University is launching the 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize – a major international literary competition, celebrating excellence in creative writing.

The 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize will award a cash prize of £10,000* to the writer of the best portfolio of poetry submitted. All entrants are asked to submit a portfolio of three-to-five poems (total maximum combined length: 120 lines). The poems can be on any subject, and in any style, but must be new work, not previously published or submitted for consideration elsewhere during this competition.

2013 Manchester Fiction Prize

The 2013 Manchester Fiction Prize

First Prize :	£10,000*
Entry Fee :	£17
Deadline for Entries :	Friday 30th August 2013

Under the direction of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University is launching the 2013 Manchester Fiction Prize – a major international literary competition, celebrating excellence in creative writing.

The 2013 Manchester Fiction Prize will award a cash prize of £10,000* to the writer of the best short story submitted. All entrants are asked to submit a story of up to 2,500 words in length. The story can be on any subject, and in any style, but must be fiction and new work, not previously published or submitted for consideration elsewhere during this competition.

To enter the 2013 Manchester Fiction Prize online, see website.

If you have any queries, or would like to be sent a printed entry pack for postal submission, contact James Draper, Manager of the Manchester Writing School at MMU, on: +44 (0) 161 247 1787; j.draper@mmu.ac.uk.

Over The Edge Open night and longlist announcement

Kernan Andrews, Ron Houchin & Art Stringer for August Over The Edge: Open Reading PLUS LONGLIST ANNOUNCED FOR 2013 NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR

The first ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ after the summer break takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, August 29^th, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Art Stringer, Ron Houchin & Kernan Andrews. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. The evening will also see the announcement of the long list for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition, which received a very healthy number of entries again this year.

Kernan Andrews is from Galway and is the arts editor and political correspondent of the Galway Advertiser. He writes short stories in his spare time and has been published in The Galway Review. He has read his work at Cúirt 2013; as part of the launch for NUI Galway's theatre events in the Galway Fringe Festival 2013; and at numerous Over The Edge open mics.

Welcome to Erewash Writers' Group competition

Welcome to Erewash Writers' Group competition website.

Our competitions exist to encourage and reward writing. Whether you're an experienced
writer or writing is a completely new area of creativity for you, we hope you will join in. We're offering those of you who may have lost your motivation a reason to write. We're asking for those of you who've never written before to try it out, see if you like it. We're hopeful those of you who regularly bash
away at your keyboards will enter and WOW us with your words.

As well as providing cash prizes for winning stories, we donate cash to UK charitable
organisations and voluntary groups. In 2012 our competitions raised £100.  Please click on page 'Home' and then select ‘Donation’ for details of how a group of your choosing could benefit from our competitions.

Whatever your age, writing ability or experience, we wish to promote your best work.

Please read the Rules of Entry before posting your entry.

We have two competitions remaining for 2013.  If we receive a good response to our Open Competition, as well as providing a donation this year, we will endeavour to organise a free-entry competition with a cash prize for New Year 2014.

Find the two remaining competitions we have planned on page headed 'Competitions 2013':

Write a short story about anything you want in no more than 2,000 words, and choose a charity you want our cash to be donated to:
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-open-short-story-competition---maria-smith.html

Enter our free-entry competition and win three books from the popular Teach Yourself series:http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-full-stop-short-story-competition---helen-baggott.html

Enter our fab, free, fun December Draw.  No writing involved, no fee.  Win either one free entry to our Open Competition 2014 or select a paperback:
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/december-draw.html