Competition: Willesden international short story prize 2011-12
Run By: The Willesden Herald
Genre: Short Story
Prize: upto £300 plus a mug
Entry Fee: £3
Deadline: 16th December 2011
The competition is open to all aged 18 or over, regardless of nationality or country of residence.
Entries must be:
- in English
- double-spaced
- in a normal font size (12 point is fine)
Entries must be entirely your own work and never previously published or broadcast, online or offline.
One entry per person only. Subsequent entries, including revisions, will be omitted from the competition and will not be read.
Word limit this year: 7,500.
There is no set theme.
Entry is by completing the online entry form and uploading your manuscript in Microsoft Word (".doc") or RTF (".rtf") format.
To enter you must first register and confirm your email address. By registering you agree that we may email you announcements about the competition and occasional newsletters. We will not pass your details to anyone outside of the Willesden Herald and Pretend Genius Press, unless required to do so by law.
There is an entry fee of £3 per entrant. The computer system will only direct you to the payment page after successfully uploading your entry. Entry fees are non-refundable.
We cannot provide any feedback on individual entries.
The short list will be announced online and by email to the writers concerned. The winner and runners-up will be announced at a special event sponsored by Willesden Green Writers' Group.
The prizes for 2012 are:
1st place: £300 plus a one-off Willesden Herald mug inscribed "The Willesden Short Story Prize 2012"
2nd: 2 x £150 (two runners-up)
All ten short-listed stories will be included in "New Short Stories 6" to be published by Pretend Genius Press.
Author compensation for inclusion in New Short Stories is limited to 2 complimentary copies of the anthology.
Worldwide copyright on each entry remains with its author.
The aim of this competition is to encourage the creation of excellent new short stories. Organisation, reading and judging are done on a voluntary or nominal basis, all for the love of the short story.
Further details here.
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