Writing Quote of the Day
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
- Lord Byron
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2 July, 2009
2 July, 2009
Added on 2/7/09
Competition
CCA Glasgow is launching a new quarterly publication named 2HB for which the editors are seeking contributions from writers, critics and artists.
Deadline: 14th August 2009
Competition
CCA Glasgow is launching a new quarterly publication named 2HB for which the editors are seeking contributions from writers, critics and artists.
Deadline: 14th August 2009
Added on 2/7/09
Competition
The Dark Tales has a top prize of £100 and with a maximum word count of 5000, you have more scope for development of your own Dark Tale.
Deadline: 31st July 2009
Competition
The Dark Tales has a top prize of £100 and with a maximum word count of 5000, you have more scope for development of your own Dark Tale.
Deadline: 31st July 2009
Added on x/6/09
Competition
At last the summer has arrived. Long, bright evenings. Warm, lazy days and Silverstreet Publications Summer 2009 Writing Competition.
Deadline: 29th August 2009
Competition
At last the summer has arrived. Long, bright evenings. Warm, lazy days and Silverstreet Publications Summer 2009 Writing Competition.
Deadline: 29th August 2009
Added on 1/7/09
Competition
Movie Poet has set their next monthly script competition. This time it is "FADE OUT".
Deadline: 31st July 2009
Competition
Movie Poet has set their next monthly script competition. This time it is "FADE OUT".
Deadline: 31st July 2009
Added on 1/7/09
Competition
The monthly Global Short Story Competition is proving a success - and now we have the backing of internationally renowned author Bill Bryson OBE.
Deadline: End of every month
Competition
The monthly Global Short Story Competition is proving a success - and now we have the backing of internationally renowned author Bill Bryson OBE.
Deadline: End of every month
Added on 1/7/09
Competition
Txt Lit is a literary genre of creative writing using a mobile phone texting system. A single mobile phone text message contains just 160 characters, including spaces and punctuation. We like to call stories written within these parameters Micro Stories.
Deadline: 31st July 2009
Competition
Txt Lit is a literary genre of creative writing using a mobile phone texting system. A single mobile phone text message contains just 160 characters, including spaces and punctuation. We like to call stories written within these parameters Micro Stories.
Deadline: 31st July 2009
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Catch up with all the site updates you might have missed in the past five days.
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Added on 29/6/09
Screening
BFI hosts a TV preview of docu-drama Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 followed by a Q&A with the director.
Deadline: 3rd July 2009
Screening
BFI hosts a TV preview of docu-drama Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 followed by a Q&A with the director.
Deadline: 3rd July 2009
Added on 10/6/09
Competition
wo of Britain’s top authors, GP Taylor and David Almond, have joined forces with English Heritage to encourage budding writers of all ages to take inspiration from some of the finest historic sites in the North, and put pen to paper in two writing competitions.
Deadline: 7th July 2009
Competition
wo of Britain’s top authors, GP Taylor and David Almond, have joined forces with English Heritage to encourage budding writers of all ages to take inspiration from some of the finest historic sites in the North, and put pen to paper in two writing competitions.
Deadline: 7th July 2009
Added on 29/6/09
Screening
NASA put a man on the moon - and mankind gained the non-stick frying pan. Fifty years earlier, Man from M.A.R.S prophetic curio of the silent screen, originally presented in stereoscopic 'Teleview', tells of an inventor's fall to earth, and his awakening from frenzied radio contact with the diamond geezers of Mars by the sound of a 'tickless' alarm clock.
Deadline: 9th July 2009
Screening
NASA put a man on the moon - and mankind gained the non-stick frying pan. Fifty years earlier, Man from M.A.R.S prophetic curio of the silent screen, originally presented in stereoscopic 'Teleview', tells of an inventor's fall to earth, and his awakening from frenzied radio contact with the diamond geezers of Mars by the sound of a 'tickless' alarm clock.
Deadline: 9th July 2009
Added on 23/3/09
Competition
This competition will test the creative and technical skills of everyone taking part. Writers, film crew, actors will all be given a title and a genre to work from. Then it's a mad race to finish the movie in 48 hours.
48 hours start: 8pm 10th July 2009
Competition
This competition will test the creative and technical skills of everyone taking part. Writers, film crew, actors will all be given a title and a genre to work from. Then it's a mad race to finish the movie in 48 hours.
48 hours start: 8pm 10th July 2009
Added on 29/6/09
Event
The London Bridge Festival opens with a free party on London Bridge – which will be closed to traffic – on Saturday, July 11, celebrating the bridge’s 800th anniversary. Everyone’s invited! Then comedians, actors and bards will provide two weeks’ of entertainment as the streets that inspired Shakespeare, Chaucer and Dickens open their bars and theatres for new and established acts.
Deadline: 10th - 25th July 2009
Event
The London Bridge Festival opens with a free party on London Bridge – which will be closed to traffic – on Saturday, July 11, celebrating the bridge’s 800th anniversary. Everyone’s invited! Then comedians, actors and bards will provide two weeks’ of entertainment as the streets that inspired Shakespeare, Chaucer and Dickens open their bars and theatres for new and established acts.
Deadline: 10th - 25th July 2009
Added on 30/6/09
Competition
Win the chance to have one of your short stories published in Guardian Weekend's annual summer fiction issue
Deadline: 10th July 2009
Competition
Win the chance to have one of your short stories published in Guardian Weekend's annual summer fiction issue
Deadline: 10th July 2009
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