Competitions • by season If you wish to appear on the Mslexia website, please let us know WINTER-SPRING | SPRING-SUMMER | SUMMER-AUTUMN | AUTUMN-WINTER WINTER-SPRING   Cardiff International Poetry Competition is for poems of up to 50 lines. Prizes: £5,000, £500, £250, 5@£50. Entry fee: £5 per poem. Closing date: January   www.academi.org The Lulu Blooker Prize is the world’s first literary prize devoted to ‘blooks’: books based on blogs or websites. Only printed books may be submitted (3 copies required). Prizes awarded in 3 categories – Fiction, Non-Fiction and Comic-blooks: $1,000. ‘Grand’ or overall winner: $2,000 (an extra $1,000). Entry fee: Free. Closing date: January www.lulublookerprize.com Norwich Writers’ Circle Open Poetry Competition is for poems of up to 40 lines. Prizes: Open Poetry, £200, £100, £50; Mary Ingate Award, £25; John Coleridge Award, £15; Hilary Mellon Award, £15. Entry fee: £3 for the first poem, £2 per entry thereafter. Closing Date: February www.norwichwriters.org.uk Cadenza Open Short Story Competition is for unpublished stories of up to 3,000 wds. Open theme, but no childrens stories. Prizes: £200, £100, £50, 2 x subscriptions plus winners will be published in Cadenza. Entry fee: £5. Closing date: 31 March www.cadenza-magazine.co.uk   SPRING-SUMMER » CWA Debut Dagger Competition is for the opening of a potential crime novel (up to 3,000 wds), plus a synopsis of its further development (500-1,000 wds). Open to writers who have not had a novel published. Prizes: £500 plus tickets and accommodation for two at the CWA Dagger Awards Dinner. Entry fee: £20. Closing date: February www.thecwa.co.uk Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition is for poems of any style, any length and on any subject. Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250. Entry fee: £5 for up to 3 poems. You may submit as many as you like, provided each entry (up to 3 poems) is accompanied by £5 entry fee. Closing date: 25 April www.mslexia.co.uk The Alexander Cordell Prize for Travel Writing is for stories of up to 1,500 wds. It invites you to imagine that one or more of the characters featured in Cordell’s Welsh novels have travelled through time to the present day, and to consider through their eyes how the area has changed, physically, socially and culturally and thus add value to the experience of today’s traveller. Prizes: £500, £300, £150 (plus publication). Entry fee: £3 per entry. Closing date: May www.cordellcountry.org/cordell.html The Bruntwood Playwriting Competition is open to writers of all ages and experience. Prizes: £15,000 plus production, £10,000 plus production, £5,000, special award for people under 26 and another for a new talent to be Writer in Residence for a year. Closing date: April www.royalexchange.co.uk The Frogmore Poetry Prize is for poems of up to 40 lines. Prizes: 200 guineas and a life subscription to The Frogmore Papers, 75 guineas, 50 guineas plus 1-year subscription. Entry fee: £2 per poem. Closing date: May www.frogmorepress.co.uk Cinnamon Press First Collection and First Novel Award is for unpublished poetry (10 poems) of up to 40 lines and the first 10,000 wds of a novel. Prize (poems): £100 plus publication. Prize (novel): £500 plus publication. Entry fee: Poems £16 per collection (10 poems), Novels £20. Closing dates: bi-annual June and November www.cinnamonpress.com SUMMER-AUTUMN» The Belmont Poetry Prize is for poems of up to 40 lines on any theme for children. Judged by children. Closing date: July www.belmontartscentre.org.uk The Asham Award is open to women writers who have not yet had a novel or short story collection published, and is for stories of up to 4,000 wds. Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250 + 9 @£200. Winners will be published by Bloomsbury. www.ashamaward.com Nottingham Poetry Society Competition is for unpublished poems of up to 40 lines. Prizes: £300, £150, £75. Entry fee: £3 per poem, £10 for four. No entry form required. Name, address on separate sheet. For further details and entries: Competition Secretary, 38 Harrow Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 7DU. Closing date: August Blinking Eye Poetry Competition is for unpublished poems of poets who are 50yrs+ on 7 August. Overall winner will have a collection published. Also, an anthology of commended poems. Submit in blocks of 5 poems with an overall title. Closing date: Not in 2008 www.blinking-eye.co.uk   AUTUMN-WINTER » The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2006 is for a collection of poems between 16 and 24 pages. Prize is publication. Entry fee £18 per collection. Closing date: October www.poetrybusiness.co.uk The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition is for unpublished poems up to 40 lines. There is no theme. Prizes: £5,000, £1,000, £500, 10 @ £50. Closing date: October www.poetrysociety.org.uk Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition is for collections of 50 to 100 haiku and may be free-form or 5-7-5. Poems may have been previously published in magazines, journals or anthologies, but must not have appeared in an individual collection. Prize: £200 plus publication. Entry fee: £20. www.snapshotpress.co.uk/haiku_competition_details.htm The National Short Story Prize is for stories of up to 8,000 wds and is open to authors with a previous record of publication who are either UK nationals or residents. Entries may be stories published during 2006 or previously unpublished. Prizes: £15,000, £3,000, 3@£500. Closing date: November www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/short_story_terms.shtml Ideas4Writers Short Story Competition is for stories of up to 2,000 wds. Closing date: November www.ideas4writers.co.uk • Return to main listings page • Place a banner ad
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