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Writing Peers Summer Short Story Competition
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The latest writing competition from Writing Peers is very different to most contests, so be sure to familiarise yourself with how it works on their website.
The main difference to your average competitions are that whenever you register, on 22nd June you’ll be randomly assigned a genres along with five prompts, of which you choose one to incorporate in your story. Then you have six days in which to write and edit your story… and then the fun begins!
There follows five rounds of judging. In each round, entrants will receive two stories from genres they weren’t allocated. You will then need to give feedback for each of the stories and pick your winner. The votes are totted up from the five rounds and the winner for each genre is announced on 30th July 2024.
One of the best things about this competition is that you will receive plenty of feedback on your entry from your peers which can be very useful even if you don’t end up winning the competition. Reading lots of other entries is also a fine way to pick out the things that work and don’t work in these genres.
So if you fancy getting involved in a writing competition with a difference, this could be the one for you.
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