Writing Contest: Fiction and Poetry at The Write Idea
I received this email from Doug Pugh, Administrator at The Write Idea:
The Write Idea, a small but friendly writers forum have recently released details of the first annual competition named in honour of their founder.
Consisting of nine rounds of short stories over eighteen weeks, or nine poetry rounds over the same timespan, there is a cash prize for the winner, along with publication of each round winner in an end of competition anthology.
Here are a few more details about the competition:
Requirements: Anyone over the age of 18 who writes fiction or poetry in English. (Excluding Whittaker Prize judges and TWI administrators.) Anyone wishing to participate in this competition must currently be a member of TWI or register and be accepted as a member of the forum.
Categories: fiction and poetry. Writers may enter one category or both categories.
Fee: £15 ($30 Cdn or US). Writers may enter BOTH categories for a fee of £25 ($50 CDN or US). Fees may be paid via PayPal to donnagee@rogers.com or email donnagee@vianet.com to make other arrangements (i.e. cheque or money order). NOTE: If you enter all nine rounds, the entry fee works out to approximately £1.70 per round. And you’ll have nine pieces of writing in your back pocket.
Prizes: $200 US for Fiction Winner, $200 US for Poetry Winner
The contest follows a schedule with posted prompts on particular days and then two weeks to write and submit to each prompt. For the schedule and more details, go here.
Write.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Hmmm I was coming by to thank you for visiting freelancewrite.about.com, but now I’ve got another contest on my to do list, thanks
I am GLAD to see WritersUnbound active!