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SUMMARY:Searchlight Awards − Best Novel Opening for Children or Young Adults 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) 1 September 2024\nEntry Fee: £16 per entry\nPrizes: 1st prize: £1\,000 plus a one-to-one call with the agent judge; 2nd prize: editorial review of 5000 words of your manuscript and a one-hour on-line meeting with celebrated author and creative writing tutor Steve Voake; The top 10 entries will feature in Searchlight’s Agent/Publisher Pitch Book of winning stories\nWord Limit: 1\,200 words\, not including the title. Pitch: maximum 175 words\nJudge: Rachel Petty of The Blair Partnership\nCategory: Novel Competitions\nCompetition Website:  searchlightawards.co.uk\n\nAuthors writing for children and young adults have a great opportunity with this Searchlight Awards competition. As well as the top prize of £1\,000\, the top 10 entries are included in a Publisher Pitch Book which is sent to a selection of literary agents.  \nAuthors should submit the first 1\,200 words of a longer novel for middle-grade or young adult readers and a short pitch that tells the judges what the book is about. You don’t need to have finished writing your manuscript to enter. Note that this year the competition is for unagented and unpublished writers only.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/searchlight-awards-novel-opening/
CATEGORIES:Novel Competitions
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SUMMARY:Searchlight Awards − Best Children’s Picture Book Text 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) 1 September 2024\nEntry Fee: £12 per entry\nPrizes: 1st prize: £500 plus one-to-one call with the agent judge; 2nd prize: Detailed Editorial Review by Natascha Biebow; the top 10 entries will feature in Searchlight’s Agent/Publisher Pitch Book of winning stories\nWord Limit: Your text and illustration notes together should be no more than 1\,000 words; pitch maximum: 125 words\nJudge: Lorna Hemingway of Bell Lomax Moreton\nCategory: Novel Competitions\nCompetition Website:  searchlightawards.co.uk\n\nAuthors working on picture books (or the text for picture books at least) for children should take a look at this Searchlight Awards competition. Authors should submit the complete manuscript and a short pitch that tells us what the story is about. Note that this year the competition is for unagented and unpublished writers only. \nAs well as the top prize of £500\, the top 10 entries are included in a Publisher Pitch Book which is sent to a selection of literary agents. The winner will also have a one-to-one call with the judge\, Lorna Hemingway of Bell Lomax Moreton. While the author of the entry picked in second place will receive a Detailed Editorial Review by Natascha Biebow\, expert picture book editor and founder of Blue Elephant Storyshaping. The review includes an in-depth consideration of your picture book manuscript (up to 1000 words)\, and a detailed editorial review letter\, with specific comments about the work\, notations on your manuscript and suggestions for revision.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/searchlight-awards-picture-book/
CATEGORIES:Novel Competitions
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SUMMARY:UK Writers College Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 30 September 2024\nEntry Fee: Free\nPrizes: Winner: NZ$1\,000\, Second: NZ$500\, Third: NZ$500; the three winning entries will be published in an anthology\nWord Limit: 2\,000 words\nTheme: ‘It didn’t have to be this way’\nCategory: Short Story Competitions\nCompetition Website: ukwriterscollege.co.uk/the-uk-writers-college-annual-short-story-competition\n\nThe UK Writers College Short Story Competition is open to new writers aged 16 or over but anyone who has made a living from writing (fiction or non-fiction) is not eligible to enter. It is run by The Writers College\, who offer a range of writing resources and courses to aspiring authors and who have bases in the UK\, New Zealand and South Africa. Whether you want to hone your short story writing skills\, or you want to learn the craft of writing a novel\, The Writing College will have a course that might appeal. \nThe judging panel is made up of three talented authors: Lorraine Forrest-Turner\, Alex Smith and Andrew Salomon who have a wealth of writing experience between them.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/uk-writers-college-short-story-competition/
CATEGORIES:Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:New Writers Book Review Competition 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) on Monday 30th September 2024\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: 1st Place: £50 and publication on the NewWriters.org.uk website\nWord Limit: 1\,000 words (excluding title)\nCategory: Non-fiction Competitions\nHow to Enter: Send your entry as an attachment (Word doc or Google doc please) to: competitions@newwriters.org.uk with the email subject “Book Review Competition”.\n\nThis competition is free to enter\, but entrants must sign up to the NewWriters.org.uk newsletter (use THIS LINK to sign up if you haven’t already). Our monthly newsletter includes details of upcoming writing competitions\, along with tips and prompts and other news or offers we think might interest writers. We don’t share subscribers’ information with anyone else. \nNote that the novel or poetry collection you choose to review must be published and available to purchase in the UK and must be the first novel or poetry collection published by that writer (though it’s okay if it was published prior to 2024). \nEntry to this free competition assumes you accept the following terms and conditions: \n\nEntered book reviews must be the sole work of the entrant and no AI or similar software may have been used to write it.\nEntries must be unpublished\, either in print or online (including social media).\nEntrants must be aged 16 years or older at the time of entry.\nBooks reviewed can be on any theme or genre but must be either novels or poetry collections\, published in English in the UK and available for general purchase at the time of entry.\nThe winner of competition will be paid a £50 prize; this prize includes the purchase of the copyright of the book review and it should not be published elsewhere.\nResults of the competition will be published in the NewWriters.org.uk Newsletter in October 2024 and the winning entry will be published on the website soon after.\nEntries should be sent as email attachments (Word doc or Google doc please) to competitions@newwriters.org.uk with the email subject “Book Review Competition”
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/book-review-comp/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions
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SUMMARY:EGG+FROG Inspirathlon 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 11.59 pm (UK time) on 30 September 2024\nEntry Fee: £6 (or £15 with feedback)\nPrizes: Round 1: £50\, Round 2: £75\, Round 3: £100. All winners & runners-up published in EGG+FROG\nWord Limit: 800 words (for each round)\nCategory: Flash Fiction Competitions\nCompetition Website: eggplusfrog.com/competition\n\nIf you’re seeking a flash fiction competition that’s a little different from the usual contests\, this offering from EGG+FROG could be right up your street. The competition is split into three rounds (though one entry fee gives you access to all three rounds). EGG+FROG will provide inspirations for each of the three round – they could be videos\, pictures or songs – and writers will have one week to write a response. There’s a maximum limit of 800 words per round and entries must be received before the closing day of each round. One winner and two runners-up will be selected in each round. \nCheck out the EGG+FROG site for all the details and the T&Cs.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/egg-frog-inspirathlon/
CATEGORIES:Flash Fiction Competitions
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SUMMARY:WriteTime Short Story Competition 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 30 September 2024\nEntry Fee: £5 for one entry\, £10 for three\nPrizes: 1st Place: £100; £50 each for two runners-up\nWord Limit: 1\,500 words\nEligibility: Entrants must be over 60 years old\nCategory: Short Story Competitions\nCompetition Website:  writetime.org/how-to-enter\n\nRun by Shoreham Press\, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC)\, the WriteTime Short Story Competition is aimed at older writers out there (you have to be aged over 60 to enter). It challenges writers aged over 60 to share their stories and their talent and to turn their reflections into fiction. \nIf your entry is not picked as one of the winners\, you have the option to request feedback\, which is a great way to help you improve your writing. Check out the competition website for the full details.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/writetime-short-story-competition/
CATEGORIES:Short Story Competitions
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