Competitions

SWC Annual International Short Story Competition 2016

Competitions / /

First prize: £150      Second prize: £80     Third prize: £30

Closing date: 31st October 2016

Online entries CLICK HERE

Chief Judge: Robert Scott-Norton is a successful indie author famed for his ongoing intricate sci-fi series ‘The Tombs Legacy’. He is a resident of Southport and has concluded that the ordinary seaside town is the perfect setting for all the horrors he can throw at it. He enjoys a variety of fiction, but is drawn to the works of Stephen King and all things Doctor Who. He is, however, looking forward to the range of genres that this annual competition will bring.

Rules

  • Your entry should be an unpublished, original story on any theme of up to 2000 words (previous publication includes via internet or independent press)
  • Do not put your name on your story but do give it a suitable title. Titles should be both appropriate and interesting.
  • There is no set theme or style for the competition, other than the above.
  • You do not need an entry form. Send us a separate cover sheet  with each entry’s title, word count, your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address.
  • For internet entries, please include PayPal ref. number in body of email OR put the story(ies) names in the comments box when paying. Also please use basic formatting in any of .doc, .docx, rich text or .odf file types when attaching your file to the email. Any sidebars, headers, footers or unusual layouts may result in your electronic entry being rejected.
  • No individual correspondence will be entered into regarding receipt of works/payments, so please do not send any confirmational material or use Recorded Delivery.
  • Please include an SAE if you wish to receive a print of the results/judges report (if available) when the competition is finished. For email entries, please note in the body of the mail that you would like to receive the results.
  • Winners will be informed in December, general availability of results will be available on this site thereafter. There may be a delay publishing results depending on circumstances and permissions.
  • Entries in English please (minor dialect allowable).
  • Winning stories may be published on this site for 12 months with permission of original author.

Optional – Paper saving single-spaced entries encouraged.

  • The fee is £3.00 for each story, or £10 for 4.  You can pay by cheque or postal order made out to Southport Writers’ Circle.

Send postal entries to:

Short Story Competition

3 Hereford Road

Southport
Merseyside
PR9 7DX

 

Online entries CLICK HERE

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SWC Annual International Poetry Competition 2016

Competitions / /

First Prize: £150, Second Prize: £75, Third Prize: £25

(In addition: £25 Humour Prize: £25 Local Prize)

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Chief Judge: LINDSEY HOLLANDLindsey Holland

Lindsey’s small collection Particle Soup appeared with KFS in 2012. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize and also placed in the Wigtown, Café Writers and Wenlock poetry competitions. She will be a Hawthornden Fellow in 2016. She studied at the University of Warwick and worked for Heaventree Press whilst completing an MA in Writing there. She founded the network North West Poets, for which she edited and published two anthologies. She teaches Creative Writing at Edge Hill University and is co-editor of the online poetry magazine The Compass. Her pamphlet The Lanterns is forthcoming from Eyewear in March 2016 and she is currently working on Bloodlines, a full collection of poetry which draws on research into her family history.

RULES: Please read carefully

1. Poems should bear no identification of the poet. Local entrants (Liverpool and Preston Postcodes) should mark poems with an ‘L’. In the top left corner. Humour entries should be marked with an ‘H’. Local and Humour entrants are not disqualified from winning main prizes.

2. Please enclose a separate A4 sheet of paper with your full contact details and list of titles submitted.

3. All entries must be typed on A4 paper, in English, and must be the original, unpublished work of the entrant.

4. Each entry should be accompanied by the appropriate fee of £3 per poem or four poems for £10. Cheques/Postal orders should be in sterling and payable to:

SOUTHPORT WRITERS’ CIRCLE.

6. A maximum of 40 lines per poem is allowed.

7. The closing date for entries will be 30th April 2016. Winners will be informed early June.

8. Please keep a copy of your poem(s) as manuscripts cannot be returned.

7. The adjudicator’s decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding individual entries or payments. Entrants who enclose an S.A.E will receive a copy of the adjudicator’s report (if available). No application form is required.

Envelopes should be sent to:-

Southport Writers’ Circle Poetry Compeition

3 Hereford Road

Southport
Merseyside
PR9 7DX

Please DO NOT send entries by recorded delivery or send any other conformational material.

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SWC International Annual Short Story Competition 2015

Competitions / /

First prize: £150      Second prize: £80     Third prize: £30

Closing date: 31st October 2015

Online entries CLICK HERE

Rules

  • Your entry should be an unpublished, original story on any theme of up to 2000 words (previous publication includes via internet or independent press)
  • Do not put your name on your story but do give it a suitable title. Titles should be both appropriate and interesting.
  • There is no set theme or style for the competition, other than the above.
  • You do not need an entry form. Send us a separate cover sheet  with each entry’s title, word count, your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address.
  • For internet entries, please include PayPal ref. number in body of email OR put the story(ies) names in the comments box when paying. Also please use basic formatting in any of .doc, .docx, rich text or .odf file types when attaching your file to the email. Any sidebars, headers, footers or unusual layouts may result in your electronic entry being rejected.
  • No individual correspondence will be entered into regarding receipt of works/payments, so please do not send any confirmational material or use Recorded Delivery.
  • Please include an SAE if you wish to receive a print of the results/judges report (only if available) when the competition is finished. For email entries, please note in the body of the mail that you would like to receive the results.
  • Winners will be informed in December, general availability of results will be available on this site thereafter. There may be a delay publishing results depending on circumstances and permissions.
  • Entries in English please (minor dialect allowable).
  • Winning stories may be published on this site for 12 months with permission of original author.

Optional – Paper saving single-spaced entries encouraged.

  • The fee is £3.00 for each story, or £10 for 4.  You can pay by cheque or postal order made out to Southport Writers’ Circle.

 

Send entries to:

Short Story Competition

Southport Writers’ Circle

35 Sussex Road,

Southport, PR9 0SR

Online entries CLICK HERE

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Southport Writers' Circle