Short Story Workshop
My story ’Ghirlandaio’s Blue Window of Treachery’ reached the top three in the Short Story Workshop Competition. No prize, but I’ll get a page of feedback. You can read the story here.
My story ’Ghirlandaio’s Blue Window of Treachery’ reached the top three in the Short Story Workshop Competition. No prize, but I’ll get a page of feedback. You can read the story here.
My story Seeing Himself Out got third place in the latest Cranked Anvil competition! I seem to be doing well lately. You can read the story here.
My story ’Presolar Grains’ has been shortlisted for this year’s Hammond House competition!
My story ’Pachydamned’ got an Honourable Mention in the Literary Taxidermy competition – the one where you take the first and last lines of a novel and write a new story to fit between them. I’ve added it to the ’Read Now’ page.
Here’s my look at writing competitions I might enter during the coming month.
All the rest have a deadline of 31 December.
I am going into hospital for major surgery in early December and will be out of action for some time, so I’m afraid there will be no update on January competitions. Ones you may want to keep in mind include Secret Attic’s regular contest, the Mogford competition for food-related stories, the prestigious Manchester award, the Fish memoir competition and the Parracombe prize. Otherwise, why not keep an eye on the helpful big list Globe Soup have put together here?
See you next year!
Update: my operation was cancelled – I don’t yet know when it will be rescheduled, but in the meantime I’m not up to much.
My story ’Huge Ships’ is one of the three winners in the regular competition run by ’Meet me @ Nineteenth Street’! That means $100 for me plus publication in the online journal here.
Here’s my regular look at writing competitions I might enter during the coming month (so no poetry or competitions not open to UK writers, for example).
If you get anywhere in one of these competitions, do let me know!
We bought a mini peach tree this year (‘Crimson Bonfire’) to grow in a big pot, but were not led to expect any fruit in the first year. However, quite a few tiny peaches appeared. They were bullet hard and didn’t seem likely to amount to much, so we didn’t bother thinning them out. Today they all fell off spontaneously and turn out to be perfectly ripe – and rather nice, albeit smallish.
My story ’Song of the Charnel Square and the Vale of Voles’ (I was going through a phase of long titles when I wrote it) has been shortlisted for the Olga Sinclair prize! The winner will be announced at a gala event in Norwich on 2 November.
Update
I did not place, but had a pleasant evening with the Norwich writers and was presented with a certificate and pen as well as a copy of the anthology.
Here are the writing competitions with deadlines in October that I might enter – so mainly short stories and novels, with no poetry or flash.
All the rest have a deadline of 31 October.
Good luck – if you get anywhere with these, do let me know!