Retreat West 100 word Micro competition, deadine today

With details of the competition and more, here are the latest newsletters: Last chance to send your micros! Today is deadline day for the November monthly micro and you have until 23.59 (UK time) tonight (Sunday 7th November) to get your stories to us to us. Quick! The first and second prize winners share 50% of the entry fees and the People's Prize winner gets a mystery prize (previously they've won Community Membership, feedback reports, flash festival tickets, books, notepads, and lots of lovely writerly things!). Plus everyone shortlisted will be entered into our new annual Retreat West Awards. We can't wait to read your stories inspired by this month's brilliant prompt! See all the info and enter here Copyright © 2021 Retreat West, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Retreat West Apartment 3735 Chynoweth House Trevissome Park Truro, Cornwall TR4 8UN United Kingdom Ahead of our 2021 novelette-in-flash competition, which closes this month, we thought we'd reduce our ebook of the three 2020 stories down to 99p, to give our entrants a chance to read the winning stories (and if you're not planning on entering, well it's still a very beautiful book, at a bargain price!) … a woman gives away parts of herself and struggles with the impossibility of it ever being enough. … a man’s life is explored through a single defining moment and the tragedy that follows. … a mother and daughter navigate a relationship shaped by resentment and love. The human condition is laid bare in these spell-binding narratives that weave their way through dreams and reality, hope and regret, the past and the present. 99p kindle offer 99p Kobo offer Copyright © 2021 Retreat West, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Retreat West Apartment 3735 Chynoweth House Trevissome Park Truro, Cornwall TR4 8UN United Kingdom Industry insights: novel submission tips We’re delighted to welcome Nicola Barr to the blog today and as the next guest judge of our annual First Chapter competition, which closes in January 2022. Nicola has been a literary agent for about ten years, and has been with The Bent Agency for four years now. She represents a range of writers across fiction and non-fiction. She has previously worked as an editor at Flamingo, the literary imprint of HarperCollins, a scout for European publishers and a book reviewer for the Guardian and the Observer. We asked her some questions about what’s going to impress her both as judge of the competition and when submissions land on her desk. Find out what she had to say here Final monthly micro comp of 2021! You have until 23.59 UK time on Sunday 7th November to send your 100-word stories for the final micro comp of the year. We have December off and will be back in January with the next contest. Our brillant prompt this month comes from our community member, Hannah Hoare, and you can read our interview with her here. See her prompt and enter your story here Copyright © 2021 Retreat West, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Retreat West Apartment 3735 Chynoweth House Trevissome Park Truro, Cornwall TR4 8UN United Kingdom