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Competition
2011 Wyvern Publications Short Story Competition has a top prize of £100 and on-line and magazine publication.
Deadline: 1st March 2011

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Competition
The annual International Student Playscript Competition (ISPC), now in its 35th year, is a small, but important, part of the 54-year-old (British) National Student Drama Festival
Deadline: 30th November 2010

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Competition
Leaf Books invite you to send them writing that is no longer than 140 characters, which includes letters, spaces and punctuation.
Deadline: 31st October 2010

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Call from Submissions
The Association for Scottish Literary Studies have announced details of their call for submissions for New Writing Scotland.
Deadline: 30th September 2010

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Competition
The Writer's Digest 11th Annual Short Short Story Competition is looking for fiction that's bold, brilliant...but brief. Send us your best in 1,500 words or fewer.
Deadline: 1st December 2010

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Competition
Awards of £1,000 are financed by bequests made by Miss Nellie Tom-Gallon in memory of her brother, and by Olive Cook. The awards must be made to a writer of fiction who has had at least one short story accepted for publication, and who has serious writing ambitions.
Deadline: 31st October 2010

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Competition
Some Ways to Disappear invites submissions for Issue 2, Some Ways to Disappear.
Deadline: 1st October 2010

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Free Event
Producers love to ask for them - writers hate writing them - but what does the industry think about them? How can you make sure your treatment has the best chance of success?
Date: 2nd September 2010

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Event
London Screenwriters Festival 2010 is a brand new festival for writers & filmmakers, with insights into the screenwriting and filmmaking process as well as workshops and talks from top industry professionals.
Date: 29th-31st October 2010

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Competition
London Screenwriters Festival want YOU to leave the festival with a produced short film, ready to enter into film festivals and send to agents, broadcasters and producers as a sample of your PRODUCED work
Deadline: 15th October 2010

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Event / Opportunity
Are you a budding unpublished FICTION writer ie novelist ,short-story, playwrite, poem? If yes Black Books Events would like to hear from you and give you a chance to read out your work at thier Unpublished Fiction Writers Open Reading.
Submission Deadline: 4th September 2010
Date: 19th September 2010

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Competition
Cinnamon Press competitions offer writers in different genres excellent publication opportunities. Their novel/novella contest offers a £400 prize
Deadline: 30th November 2010

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Competition
Cinnamon Press competitions offer writers in different genres excellent publication opportunities. Their short story and poetry contest offers a £100 prize
Deadline: 30th November 2010

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Event
ComComedy returns from their month seeing shows and interviewing acts in Scotland and presents The Edinburgh Wrap Party a great show with the cream of the Fringe performing.
Date: 8th September 2010

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Competition
The Second Annual Bartleby Snopes Writing Contest: Dialogue Only is now open
Deadline: 12th September 2010

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Competition
Are you a secret storyteller? Now’s the time to let your talent out into the open. The Times and Chicken House are on a mission to find another great undiscovered children’s writer, whose novel will be published by Chicken House around the world!
Deadline: 29th October 2010