Fish Publishing Three writing
competitions annually – Short Story, Poetry, and Flash Fiction.
Details:
http://www.fishpublishing.com
Ladder Writers Monthly
competitions with a cash prize of £50. Get a critique of your
entry and earn points, which allow you to climb the ladder for
further rewards. Details:
http://ladderwriters.com
Spikethecat Quarterly
competitions. £3.00 per story, maximum 2,500 words. Details:
www.spikethecat.co.uk.
StoryFeedback.com Monthly Short Story
Contest Ongoing contest with a deadline date of
the end of each month. For short stories in any genre. Maximum
3000 words. First prize £100, second £50, third £25. Winner and
runners-up - plus best shortlisted - published online and in a
professionally illustrated anthology. Entry fee £3, plus £3 for
tick sheet critique. See website for full details:
http://www.StoryFeedback.com. StoryFeedback.com, 7 Offley
Street , Worcester WR3 8BH (Cheques/PO paid to 'Dark Tales').
Cooldog Publications Cooldog
Publications run regular short story and poetry competitions
with prizes of £100, £50 and £25, with the best six entries
published in its E-Mag – an electronic magazine published three
times a year. Entry fee is £3 with a maximum length of 3,000
words for short stories and 40 lines for poems. Competitions now
open. Website:
www.cooldog.co.uk
Writing4all is a creative
writing community with an ongoing monthly competition, where
Irish writers can share and develop their work. Website:
www.writing4all.ie
WriteInvite Weekly online short
story competitions – every Saturday night at 5.30. Entry: £3.00.
Prize £40.00. Website:
http://www.write-invite.com/index.php
Meridian Writing Quarterly
competition for short stories of up to 3,000 words for new and
published writers, in any genre. Prizes are: £100, £50 and £25
for first, second and third places respectively, with the first
deadline being 30th June, 2009.
www.meridian-writing.co.uk
Cazart Writing Competitions Two
monthly writing competitions, Short Story & Flash Fiction.
Winner from each category receives £20 and will be published on
website. Entry fee is £3 and the closing date is the 26th of
each month. More details:
http://www.cazart.co.uk
The Global Short Story Competition
Organised by
Certys Limited, supported by Darlington Arts Centre in
Darlington, County Durham, England. Cash prize for the winner of
each monthly competition. Entry: £5 per story. Details:
www.globalshortstories.net
Txt Lit Txt Lit is a new
literary genre of creative writing using a mobile phone texting
system, or SMS (Short Message System). A single mobile phone
text message contains just 160 characters, including spaces and
punctuation. Each entry costs £1 plus the
normal cost of a text message as charged by your network
provider. You can enter each competition as many times as you
like. First prize: at least £50. Competitions every month. The
theme for September is romance. More details on
website at
http://www.txtlit.co.uk
Writers' Billboard Bi-monthly
writing competitions in various formats, including poetry.
Website:
http://writersbillboard.net
Scribble Open Short Story Competition
Length: up to 3000 words. Prizes of £75.00, £25.00, and £15.00,
will be awarded for the best three stories in each issue. For
other published stories, a complimentary copy will be given.
Annual subscribers will also receive a credit voucher to the
value of £4.00. Stories from non-subscribers are welcome but
must be accompanied by the entry fee. Entry fee for the
competitions is £3.00 (cheques payable to Park Publications).
Free unlimited entry for subscribers. Scribble is published in
March, July, October, and December. More details
HERE
Monthly Writers' Forum Short Story
Competition Any genre, but stories must be original
and previously unpublished. Aim for a word count between 1,500
to 3,000. Stories may embrace crime, mystery, romance, sport,
humour, fantasy, erotica or science-fiction. The competitions
are held monthly and there is also £1,000 for the best short
story of the year. Monthly prizes of £250 for the best story
published and two prizes of £150 for runners up. All stories not
selected for publication are returned to authors with a grid
assessment. Text should be type-written or word-processed,
printed in double spacing. Entries should be accompanied with a
short biography and colour photograph of the writer. Please
submit a saved copy of the ms on disk as a Rich Text File (RTF)
or Microsoft Word 5.1a (for Apple Macintosh). Send complete ms
and contact details to: Writers International Ltd, PO Box 3229,
Bournemouth BH1 1ZS Tel: 01202 589828 Fax: 01202 587758 Website
www.writers-forum.com
The Seventh Quark Runs three
separate competitions, a Quarterly Story Prize (2000-4000
words), a Bi-Monthly Shorter Story Prize (under 2000 words), and
the wild excitement of a regular simultaneously written Frantic
Flash Competition. Please see details of dates and entry fees on
the website
www.7thquarkmagazine.com or email
seventhquark@tribe13.co.uk
Pulse and Cocktails Looking for
budding writers of fun, adult erotic short stories. All entries
that are published will receive a £5 voucher to spend, with two
runner-up prizes of £25, and the overall winner receiving a £100
voucher. A monthly competition, currently looking for entries
before the end of this month. Website:
www.pulseandcocktails.co.uk
Dark Tales Monthly Short Story Contest Ongoing
contest with a deadline date of the end of each month. For
horror and speculative fiction. Maximum 5000 words. First prize
£100, second £50, third £25. Winner and runner-up - plus best
shortlisted - published in Dark Tales magazine. Entry fee £3,
free for subscribers; plus £3 for tick sheet critique. See
website for full details:
http://www.darktales.co.uk/ Dark
Tales, 7 Offley Street, Worcester WR3 8BH (Cheques/PO paid to
'Dark Tales', £15 to subscribe for 4 issues)
