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Tuesday, 17 May 2005
New Venture for new writing
Topic: New Writing Ventures
BookTrust launches annual series of national awards, worth #5000 each, for unpublished writers of fiction, literary non-fiction and poetry. (The Guardian)


Details about the scheme: New Writing Ventures

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Tuesday, 10 May 2005
Write a New Rhyme
Topic: Competition: A new rhyme
Time for a New Rhyme

Enter the nationwide (UK) competition to find the best new rhyme of our time and win a home entertainment system worth #1000 and have your rhyme animated on Nick Jr.

Rhymes should be no longer than 65 words and must be submitted by 13th June 2005.

Read more details here

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Wednesday, 4 May 2005
Middlesex University Press 2005 Literary Prize
Win #1,000 and have your work published - enter the Middlesex University Press Literary Prize 2005:

The MU prize is open to all writers of poetry and short stories. First prize for each category is #1,000, with second and third prizes of #250 and #100. The ten winning entries in each category will be published in an anthology, ‘Watermark’, by Middlesex University Press in 2005.


Closing date for entries is 20 June 2005

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Wednesday, 20 April 2005
Saga Magazine Competition for writers aged 50 & over
The Guardian reports that The hunt is on for the next JK Rowling. The winner of a competition to find talented new authors writing for the eight-14 age group will have his or her book published by HarperCollins.

The competition is sponsored by Saga Magazine (Britain’s largest subscription-based monthly magazine)in association with HarperCollins. Saga provides high quality services such as holidays and insurance for people in the UK aged 50 and over. The writing competition is only for writers aged 50 and over.

Details: Saga Magazine Book Writing Competition


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Tuesday, 12 April 2005
Cadenza Magazine Short Story Competition
Topic: Cadenza Short Story Comp.
Open Short Story Competition

Closing Date: 30 September 2005


First Prize: #200
Second Prize: #100
Third Prize: #50

Runners-up (2) Free annual subscriptions to Cadenza

The winning entries will be published in Cadenza Magazine.

Entry fee: #5 or equivalent

See Cadenza Magazine for more details and conditions of entry.

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Saturday, 9 April 2005
32 Traits of Creative People
32 Traits of Creative People from Robert Alan Black PH.D, a creative idea consultant plus his website is filled with a lot of ideas and creativity challenges.

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Thursday, 7 April 2005
New Writing - submissions open now
Topic: New Writing - submissions
New Writing 14 submissions open now. How to submit work:

Writers from the UK and the Commonwealth are encouraged to submit short stories, poetry, essays or extracts from work in progress. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2005.

The work must be unpublished and not be due for publication until at the earliest January 2007, and the author should be willing to give the British Council electronic rights for 2 years following publication, plus translation rights and other sub-rights to be confirmed. There is no limit on the length of pieces, but constraints of space mean that longer items will stand less chance of acceptance. Submissions should be sent in triplicate, clearly typed, double-spaced, page numbered and with name and address on each piece to:

New Writing
Film and Literature Department
British Council
10 Spring Gardens
London SW1A 2BN


New Writing 14 will be published by Granta in September 2006.


About New Writing:

New Writing is an annual anthology of new literature in English from the UK and the Commonwealth, subsidised and administered by the British Council and published by Picador in association with the Arts Council of England. It provides one of the few opportunities in the UK for unknown writers without an agent to get published by a leading fiction publisher.

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Woman & Home Short Story competition
This short story competition requires you to purchase Woman & Home magazine, May 2005

Woman & Home Short Story Competition

The theme is The Gift. Submit your story of 3,000 words, typed in double spacing on one side of each sheet of A4 paper. Number the pages and keep a copy. Include a recent photo and 200 words about yourself.

Attach the coupon (from page 191 of the May 2005 issue) to the front of your entry. Photocopies of the coupon are not accepted.

All entries must be received by 17 June 2005.

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Monday, 4 April 2005
Poems in the Waiting Room: Submission guidelines for poems
This article from the BBC on March 31st about A scheme to promote the healing powers of poetry has found its way into thousands of GPs' surgeries is interesting. I happened to be at the dentist today for a checkup and while waiting, I spotted one of the leaflets, Poems in the Waiting Room. It contained eight short poems. I also read about the scheme on their website: Poems in the Waiting Room and was particularly interested to read about their PitWR Submission Guidelines:

Short poems (20/30 lines) are preferred to long to allow scope and variety within a collection. Submissions by email are particularly welcome or by Royal Mail to the POBox address. If sending by email, it is best to copy and paste the text into the message body. High fire walls usually wipe out attachments mistaking poetry for viruses.

The Arts Council funding allows for a royalty of #30 to be paid for each poem published.

As a token of appreciation to poets making submissions, each quarter a draw is held with a prize of a subscription to The Rialto, a premier poetry magazine


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Saturday, 2 April 2005
Writers' Forum Poetry Competition
Writers' Forum Poetry Competition

#100 poetry prize
Readers are invited to enter their poems for a competition to be held in each issue of Writers' Forum. There will be a first prize of #100 and three runner-up prizes.

Entry fee: #5 for one poem or #7 for two

Maximum length: 40 lines
Subject/theme: no restrictions

Closing dates 2005: 15th of every month

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