December 2019: Competition Monthly
16 December 2019
Some photographs to inspire those competition entries
It’s nearly Christmas, so not long to a brand new year – and a brand new decade. Perhaps among your new year’s resolutions will be one to enter more competitions. Sometimes it’s hard to think of fresh ideas, particularly when the competition’s theme is open so there’s no particular direction. Here are a few photos to give you a little inspiration for the coming year.
Happy New Year and good luck in your endeavours.
Click October 2019 and November 2019 for posts detailing further competitions closing in December and January.
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January Competitions
The Big Moose Prize
Theme: Unpublished novel, 90 – 1,000 pages
Prize: $1,000 plus publication
Closing date: 31 January 2020
Entry: $25
The Hudson Prize
Theme: Unpublished collection of short stories or poems
Prize: $1,000 plus publication
Closing date: 31 January 2020
Entry: $25
February Competitions
Northern Writers’ Awards (For writers from the North of England)
Theme: Several, including children’s/YA, fiction or non-narrative nonfiction, debut
Prize: Various
Closing date: 6 February 2020
Entry: Free
March Competition
Bridgend Writers Short Story Open Competition
Theme: Open, 1,500 – 1,800 words
Prize: £100 / £50 / £30
Closing date: 1 March 2020
Entry: £5
The Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction
Theme: Open, at least 10 pages (2,500 words), up to 50 pages (12,500 words)
Prize: $2,000
Closing date: 14 March 2020
Entry: $15
Fowey Festival Short Story Competition
Theme: ‘Not After Midnight’, 1,500 words max
Prize: £100 / £75
Closing date: 16 Mar 2020
Entry: £5
New Welsh Writing Awards: Rheidol Prize
Theme: Prose with a Welsh theme or setting, fiction or nonfiction, short unpublished books 5,000 – 30,000 words.
Prize: £1,000 plus an ebook deal / One week residential course at Tŷ Newydd Writing Course in Gwynedd. Further prizes
Closing date: 17 March 2020
Entry: £12
An Axe to Grind Flash Fiction Competition
Theme: 1,000 words
Prize: $200 plus further prizes according to entry numbers
Closing date: 31 March 2020
Entry: $5
Rubery Book Award
Theme: A book either self-published or by an independent press. All genres
Prize: Award money (possibly £1,500 / £500)
Closing date: 31 March 2020
Entry: £37
The Lindisfarne Prize for Debut Crime Fiction
Theme: Writer from the North of England or a work which celebrates the area. A short story of no more than 10,000 words or 2 to 3 chapter of a full novel plus a synopsis
Prize: £2,500 plus editing support
Closing date: 31 March 2020
Entry: Free
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Francesca Capaldi Burgess has been placed or shortlisted in a number of competitions including Winchester Writers’ Conference, Twyford Writers, Chorley & District Writer’s Circle, Retreat West, Cordelia.net, Meridian Writing, Flash a Famous Phrase, Wells Festival, Writing Magazine and The People’s Friend serial competition. She’s had stories and a serial published in magazines worldwide and her third pocket novel is due out next year. Apart from the RNA, she’s also a member of the Society for Women Writers and Journalists. Francesca runs a writing blog along with RNA member Elaine Roberts called Write Minds.
