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Friday, 24 June 2005
12th Fish International Short Story Prize
12th Fish International Short Story Prize

Opens: 1 June 2005
Closes: 30 November 2005
Results announced: 17 March 2006
Anthology published: June 2006


?10,000 First Prize.
Requires stories of up to 5,000 words

Further Information and the rules



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The Historical Short Fiction Prize 2005
The closing date for The Short Histories Award has been extended to 31 August 2005.

Fish Publishing is running this new competition in conjunction with the UK's Historical Novel Society.

This year the Historical Novel Society is introducing an international short-fiction competition open to all writers in the Historical genre.

The competition is intended to encourage the development of the Short History genre and to enable the publication of new writers of historical fiction in the short-story format.

The Historical Short-Fiction Prize competition is very straightforward:

Entries are invited for original short stories on an historical theme. Each one will be read and assessed by a panel of judges, and the top 10 stories will appear in the Short Histories Anthology to be published by Fish Publishing in early 2006.

Judges for this competition are Barbara Erskine, Michel Faber, and Rose Doyle.

The author of the story adjudged to be the best from all the entries received will be awarded a prize of #2,000, and their entry will appear as the title piece to the Anthology. All other authors whose stories feature in the 2005 Anthology will receive an award of #250.


How to enter the Historical Short-fiction Prize

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Friday, 3 June 2005
Waterstone?s and Faber team up to find new children?s author

IN AN EFFORT to discover new UK literary talent, Waterstone’s has today unveiled The WOW Factor, a nationwide writing competition open to anyone over the age of 16. First prize is a guaranteed publishing contract with Faber & Faber, with the winning book publishing in paperback in September 2006 and sold front-of-store in every Waterstone’s branch across the country, supported by a high-profile promotional campaign. On top of royalties, the winner will also receive #1,000.
(Publishing News)

Entry forms are available from branches of Waterstone's across the country. Entrants must be aged 16 years and over and their work must be aimed at either the eight- to 12-year-old age group or the teen market.


To enter, hopefuls must submit a synopsis and the first three chapters of their work to any Waterstone's branch between July 15 and 31. A full manuscript must be available by September 30.

The winner will be announced on 1 December

The winning book will be published by Faber & Faber in September 2006, and will be promoted in all Waterstone's stores.

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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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