The Poetry Kit

Deadline	First Prize	Summary
25th March 2010	1st £100 entry £5	SENTINEL LITERARY QUARTERLY SHORT STORY COMPETITION (APRIL 2010) Deadline: March 25th. Stories on any subject, in English, 1,500 words maximum. Prizes: £100, £60, £40; publication in Sentinel Literary Quarterly. 4 stories from competition published in The Sentinel Champions Magazine in August. Results announced April 30. Fee: £5 per story, £9 for 2 stories; £12 for 5 stories Cheques in GB£ payable to Sentinel Poetry Movement. Judge: Chuma Nwokolo jr Details on website; enter online or SEND TO: Unit 136, 113-115 George Lane, London E18 1AB sentinelpoetry@gmail.com www.sentinelquarterly.com
31st March 2010	1st $3000 entry $15	TOM HOWARD/JOHN H. REID SHORT STORY CONTEST 18th year. Ten cash prizes totaling $5,550. Top prize $3,000. Seeks short stories, essays and other works of prose, up to 5,000 words. Winning entries published online. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Fee per entry is $15, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: March 31. Judges: J.H. Reid, D.C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to Winning Writers, Attn: Tom Howard Short Story Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060. Winning Writers is one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2009). More information: www.winningwriters.com/tomstory
30th April 2010	1st £150 entry £3	Nano Fiction Writing Competition Can you tell a story in 100 words or fewer? Leaf Books invites you to write a piece of Nano Fiction on any subject. This is our second Nano competition - and with the success of our first collection of Nano- fiction, Ada, hitting record sales we thought it was about time we put further writers of outstanding short sharp storywriting into print. Winning and outstanding entries will be published in the Leaf Writing magazine, These, and further commended entries will also be published in an anthology. First prize: Winner receives £150 and a free copy of the Leaf Writing magazine and the anthology One runner up will receive a free copy of the magazine / anthology. Further successful entrants published in the magazine will get a free copy, and commended authors for the anthology will be able to pre- order the book at a reduced rate To enter: £3 per entry, 4 entries for £10. Enter online or by post: visit the Leaf Website for further details: http://www.leafbooks.co.uk/New/For%20Writers/CurrentCompetitions.html#Nano
30th June 2010	1st £75 entry £3	Earlyworks Press Flash Fiction Competition Closing 30th June 2010 £75 1st prize + 5 x £5 runner up prizes Max 100 words, including title Entry fee £3 per entry, £12 for up to 6. Payment in pounds sterling POs or cheques payable to Kay Green or use Paypal button on website. Full details at http://www.earlyworkspress.co.uk/Competitions.htm or SAE to Earlyworks Press, Creative Media Centre, 45 Robertson St, Hastings, Sussex TN34 1HL
30th June 2010	Prize fund £3000 entry £5	Keats-Shelley Prize 2010 Two competitions, open to all: an essay ~ a poem £3,000 IN PRIZES The winners’ work will be published The essay can be on any aspect of the lives and works of John Keats, P B Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and their circles. It should be of 2,000 - 3,000 words, including quotations. Preference will be given to entries showing originality of thought and written in a clear and accessible style. All sources must be acknowledged. The poem (which may be a narrative) must be original, unpublished and not a parody. It should focus on the theme ‘Ice’. It may be of any length up to 50 lines. Three copies of your entry should be sent to KSMA Competition Secretary, School of English, The University, St Andrews, KY16 9AR, Scotland. Please enclose an SAE if you want your entry to be acknowledged. Copies of entries cannot be returned and no correspondence will be entered into. For all further information regarding shortlists, date of Awards, etc., please see the KSMA website, www.keats-shelley.com
31st July 2010	1st $500 entry $10	Dream Quest One Writing Contest Write a short story, 5 pages maximum on any theme, single or double line spacing. Must be neatly hand printed or typed. Multiple entries are accepted. All works must be original. Prizes: $500.00, $250.00, $100.00. Entry fee is $10(USD) per story. Postmark deadline: July 31, 2010. Send your name, address, phone#, email address with brief biographical info (Tell us a littlel about yourself) on the coversheet. Include a self addressed stamped envelope. Make fee(s) payable to: DREAMQUESTONE.COM. Mail entri(es)/fee(s) to: Dream Quest One Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 3141, Chicago, IL 60654. Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com/rules.html for guidelines and to enter online.
3rd August 2010	prize fund £1000 entry €10.	2010 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition sponsored by Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop The competition is open to both poets and fiction writers. The total prize money is €1,000. The best fiction entry will win €300. The best poetry entry will win €300. One of these will then be chosen as the overall winner and will receive an additional €400, giving the overall winner total prize money of €700 and the title *Over The Edge New Writer of The Year 2010. The 2010 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year will be a Featured Reader* at a reading to be scheduled in Galway City Library in Winter 2010/11. Entries should be sent to Over The Edge, New Writer of the Year competition, 3 Carbry Road, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland with an accompanying SAE. Entries will be judged anonymously, so do not put your name on your poem(s) or story. Put your contact details on a separate sheet. Criteria: fiction of up to three thousand words, three poems of up to forty lines, or one poem of up to one hundred lines. Multiple entries are acceptable but each must be accompanied by a fee. The fee for one entry is €10. The fee for multiple entries is €7.50 per entry e.g. two entries will cost €15, three entries €22.50 and so on. Fee payable by cheque or money order to Over The Edge. To take part you must be at least sixteen years old by September 1st 2010 and not have a book published or accepted for publication in that genre. Chapbooks excepted. Entries must not have been previously published or be currently entered in any other competition. The closing date is Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010. For further details contact Over The Edge on 087-6431748, e-mail over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com or see http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
31st August 2010	1st £100 entry £5	Earlyworks Press Short Story Competition Closing 31st August 2010 £100 1st prize. Publication for best entries. Entry fee £5 up to 4000 words, £10 for 4 – 8000 words. Max 8000. Payment in pounds sterling POs or cheques payable to Kay Green or use Paypal button on website. Full details at http://www.earlyworkspress.co.uk/Competitions.htm or SAE to Earlyworks Press, Creative Media Centre, 45 Robertson St, Hastings, Sussex TN34 1HL
30th September 2010	1st £100 entry £14	*Earlyworks Press New competition for 2010*: Book-length Fiction for Children or Teens Closing date September 30th, 2010 £100 advance and publication OR £350 cash for the winner Entry fee £14. Payment in pounds sterling PO or cheque, made out to Kay Green. Full details at http://www.earlyworkspress.co.uk/Competitions.htm or SAE to Earlyworks Press, Creative Media Centre, 45 Robertson St, Hastings, Sussex TN34 1HL

Other Competitions

Nano Fiction Writing Competition