Competition: BCSA’s 2010 writing competition
Run By: BCSA
Genre: Short story - fiction or fact
Prize: £300
Deadline: 31st July 2010
The BCSA’s 2010 writing competition is now open.
Fact or fiction – both are welcome. A first prize of £300 and a second prize of £100 will be awarded to the best 1,500 to 2,000-word pieces of original writing in English on the links between Britain and the Czech/Slovak Republics, or describing society in transition in the Republics since the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Topics can include history, politics, the sciences, economics, the arts or literature.
The writer of this year's winning entry will be presented with the prize at the BCSA’s annual dinner in London in November 2010. The piece will be published in the December 2010 issue of the British Czech and Slovak Review.
Submissions are invited from individuals of any age, nationality or educational background. Entrants do not need to be members of the BCSA.
Entry is free. Entries should be received by 31 July. An author may submit any number of entries. The competition will be judged by a panel of experts. The writer of the prize-winning entry will be notified by 30 September 2010.
Entries should be submitted by post to the BCSA Prize Administrator, 24 Ferndale, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 3NS, England, or by email to prize @ bcsa . co . uk.
Submission guidelines
All entries must be in English, prose, typed with double-spacing and no more than 2,000 words in length. (The recommended minimum is 1,500 words.) If submitted by e-mail, entries should be in Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP or a compatible format.
To ensure objective and anonymous judging the writer's name must not appear anywhere on the piece itself.
The title must appear on the first page of the entry.
All entries must be accompanied by a cover sheet, which should include the following information:
- the writer's name, address, home telephone/fax number, e-mail address, date of birth, and brief biography (not more than four lines in length)
- the title of the piece and the word count
- A signed statement verifying that the submission is an original piece of writing by the writer and has not been previously published, and that
- any citations are complete, correct and acknowledged in due form
- a note of how the entrant learned about the competition.
Information on the BCSA's writing competitions can be obtained from the BCSA Prize Administrator, 24 Ferndale, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 3NS, England, or by email to prize @ bcsa . co . uk.
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