Writing competitions to enter and Poetry Workshops

Thanks to my fellow blogger Blog About Writing for the following competition information:

1. The New Writer has a FREE competition to win a subscription to the magazine and publication and all you have to do is write a poem and send it to them on a postcard. Closes 16th September. See more here.

2. You can win a weekend for at the Festival of Romance on 9th and 10th November in Bedford. You just need to write your name and email address.

 

3. Richard and Judy have launched a new competition to ‘Find A Bestseller’ and there’s a £50,000 publishing deal on offer for the winner.

The rules are here (below the entry form). You have to be a UK or Eire resident and the competition’s only open to NEW novelists, although it’s fine if you’ve had short stories or non-fiction published.

You have to submit the first 10,000 to 12,000 words of your novel (which doesn’t have to be finished! Hurrah!) by 1st January 2014, along with an outline of the rest of the novel (not more than 1,000 words). They’re also looking for a biography of up to 500 words.

If you don’t mind appearing on telly, then I can’t really think of a better incentive to start that novel and get the first 10,000 words polished and ready to go by 1st January!

4. Those lovely people on the Novelicious site, have introduced a new monthly writing competition. Every third Wednesday of the month they will be posting a new photo, as a writing ‘prompt’.

You have to use the photo as your inspiration for 200-400 words of fiction which you then post in the comments section on the site and one writer will win £20 of Amazon vouchers. It’s free to enter, so what’s stopping you?

August’s prompt is open for entries until 12pm on 16th September and you can enter from anywhere in the world!

Poetry Workshops

And finally, if you live in the Midlands, you might be interested in some free poetry workshops, which Malcolm Dewhirst, Staffordshire’s Poet Laureate, is running at Lichfield and Tamworth libraries later this month.

Lichfield Library: Saturday 14th Sept 2013 – 10:30 – 14:30
Telephone: 01543 510700

Two Poetry Workshops at Tamworth Library
Saturdays 21st and 28th Sept 2013 – 10:30 – 14:30
Telephone: 01827 475646

Phone the libraries to book your place! There’s more information on Malcolm’s blog