Nottingham Writers' Club National Short Story Competition

Thanks to my fellow blogger Sally Jenkins for the following competition information:

Nottingham Writers' Club are holding their first National Short Story Competition. The winner gets £200 and there are 15 prizes in total. 'Emotion' is the theme of the competition and the word limit is 2,000.

Entries can only be submitted between 1st and 31st January 2014 and, "All entrants must be non-professional writers. For the purpose of this competition, we define ‘non-professional’ as a writer who has earned less than £500 from short story writing during 2013".

 

Our First National Competition

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Nottingham Writers' Club Short Story Competition 2014.

 

Nottingham Writers' Club has run thousands of competitions for its members since it was established in 1927; from prose to poetry in a wide range of genres and styles, our competitions have been judged by both published, and well-known, writers.

 

There will be three main prizes - £200, £100 and £50 – plus twelve extra prizes generously donated by Random House, Tesco and Morrison's.

 

The theme of the competition is 'Emotion', the story (up to 2,000 words) can be written in any genre and your characters don't even have to be human. We chose this theme because, at the heart of all good stories are the characters and the emotions that drive them. There are plenty to choose from including love, hate, envy, jealousy, frustration, despair, fear, terror, horror, resentment, sorrow. Make your reader feel the emotions…

This competition is for non-professional writers only, as we want to encourage as many new and less experienced writers to enter.

 

All writers will retain the copyright to their entry/entries and the winners will be published on the NWC website.

 

Entries must be received by 31^st January 2014.

 

Request an entry form and further details here.