Contests, Opportunities and Submissions
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Competition
Have a Lovely Time, is launching a travel writing competition with a simple theme of
Beautiful Britain.
Deadline: 1st October 2011
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Workshop
WORKING TITLE, Euphoric Ink's Autumn Masterclass is an intensive one-day workshop during which a small group of writers can share and develop work-in-progress scripts.
Deadline: 1st October 2011
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Competition
Prole are launching their
Prolitzer Prize. A prose competition that exemplifies the editorial ambition of Prole: to make writing accessible to all while not sacrificing quality - writing that engages, entertains and challenges.
Deadline: 1st October 2011
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Competition
Alone Festival are looking for scripts or audio recordings of performances for one audience member.
Deadline: 1st October 2011
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Call for Submissions
Submissions of writing and artwork are invited for Issue 11 of
Pushing Out the Boat, North-East Scotland's acclaimed magazine of prose, poetry and visual arts.
Deadline: 1st Octobr 2011
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Competition
Cyrstal Magazine's 10th Birthday Competition is open to everyone. Your story can be about anything, but no more than 1,500 words.
Deadline: 1st October 2011
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Competition
Sixty Second Stories is asking emerging filmmakers from all over the world are being asked to produce Sixty Second Stories - the best ninety stories will become a feature film.
Deadline:3rd October 2011
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Competition
A partnership between Rankin Film, The Bureau and DazedTV,
Collabor8te is an exciting new platform for short filmmaking; from script development through to production and distribution.
Deadline: 3rd October 2011
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Competition
15th annual Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Contest has a top prize of $1000.
Deadline: 3rd October 2011
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Competition
Newsjack is BBC Radio 4 Extra's topical sketch show which seeks to comically scrutinise the news, views and issues of the day. It looks to be irreverent and satirical,
Deadline:
Sketches: Monday, 12:00noon 3rd October
Deadline: One-liners: Tuesday, 5:00pm 4th October
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Competition
Rocliffe are accepting scripts for the next BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum in London on 8 November.
Final Deadline: 6th October 2011
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Competition
First Lines Competition is open to people over 60, resident in England. Write a short story of no more than 750 words, beginning with one of the given opening lines:
Deadline: 7th October 2011
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Call for Submissions
Wild Orchid Theatre is seeking new scripts for its forthcoming December production Yuletide Cheer and Festive Tales. Winning entries will be performed script in hand at two historic venues in Derbyshire – The Gothic Warehouse in Cromford and Sharpe's Pottery Museum in Swadlincote.
Deadline: 10th October 2011
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Competition
At
Strictly Shakespeare on the 1st of every month a prose and poetry prompt will be left on the Strictly news page. Contestants will have two weeks to pen their take on that specific prompt before the competition deadline at midnight on the 14th of every month.
Deadline: 14th October 2011
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Competition
Entries are now invited for the
EV 2011 Nature Writing contest. The EV nature writing contest is held to support the cause of writing on the subject of nature and deep ecology. Any outstanding proceeds support the EV project.
Deadline: 15th October 2011
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Competition
Writer's Digest is running a series of genre based short story competitions with $1,000 cash for the winner. This one is for
Romance.
Deadline: 15th October 2011
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Competition
Can you prove your writing ability in just
416 words? To celebrate the release of Miranda Dickinson's third novel, we've teamed up with her publishers, Avon, to offer you the chance to get your manuscript onto the desk of Miranda's very own editors!
Deadline: 16th October 2011
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Competition
Newsjack is BBC Radio 4 Extra's topical sketch show which seeks to comically scrutinise the news, views and issues of the day. It looks to be irreverent and satirical,
Deadline:
Sketches: Monday, 12:00noon 17th October
Deadline: One-liners: Tuesday, 5:00pm 18th October
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Opportunity
A directing partnership is
looking for a writer for a ground breaking project exploring the medical condition Endometriosis.
Deadline: 18th October 2011
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Opportunity
Spread the Word is offering the chance for writers on a low income to receive valuable feedback on their work from the Literary Consultancy for free, funded by Arts Council England
Deadline: 21st October 2011
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Competition
Writer's Digest is running a series of genre based short story competitions with $1,000 cash for the winner. This one is for
Crime.
Deadline: 22nd October 2011
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Opportunity
As part of
comfilmic, comedy sketch writers have the opportunity to have their work acted out before a live panel of judges.
Deadline: 24th October 2011
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Competition
A.Vogel Dormeasan's 'Write a Short Story for Bedtime' competition has atop prize of £500.
Deadline: 28th October 2011
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Competition
The second
Ruth Rendell Short Story Competition, hosted by the award winning charity InterAct Reading Service has a top prize of £1000.
Deadline: 29th October 2011
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Competition
Write a Ghost Story and enter it in the first
FictionGarden International Short Story Competition.
Deadline: 30th October 2011
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Competition
Enter Chapter One Promotions
Children's Story Competition and win cash prizes with your short stories, send us your original and unpublished writing in no more than 1000 words
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
Speakeasy have launched their Open Creative Writing Competition 2011 with categories for poetry and short story.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
Leaf Books have said past years memoir competitions have yielded some fantastic pieces and are look forward to reading them again this year..
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
Southport Writers' Circle Annual Open Short Story Competition 2009 has a top page of £150.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
Bournemouth University's Media School has announced its second annual prize for new media writing.
The prize encourages writers working with new media to showcase their skills, provoke discussion and raise awareness of new media writing, the future of the 'written' word and storytelling.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
Writer's Digest is running a series of genre based short story competitions with $1,000 cash for the winner. This one is for
Horror.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
Southport Writers' Circle Annual Open Short Story Competition 2011 is now open with top prize of £200.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
Tom McKitterick, the former editor of Political Quarterly and author of an unpublished novel, endowed the
McKitterick Prize which was first awarded in 1990. It is given annually to an author over the age of 40 for a first novel, published or unpublished.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Call for Submissions
Word Gumbo is the bi-monthly e-zine from the newly formed Gumbo Press. Submissions are now open for the next edition. The theme is Silence which you can interpret however you wish.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
MoviePoet is dedicated to the art of screenwriting, in particular, the short screenplay. Each month, we run a free online five page screenplay contest.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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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 October 2011
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Competition
Five Stop Story is pleased to announce its short story competition for stories of 1,500 to 2,500 words.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Opportunity
Creative Print Publishing is running a monthly conest to find new novelests. October's theme is Humorous and Comical.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
Brigton Cow's autumn contest is for either fiction or non-fiction pieces on the subject of autumn, endings, afterglow, nostalgia – anything that suggests the inevitable passing of time.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
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Competition
DrunkenWerewolf, a not-for-profit bimonthly music fanzine and online blog, are looking for a new team of writers to contribute to the zine.
Deadline: 31st October 2011
