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Wish You Were Here Competition

Send us a postcard from your favourite book and you could see your postcard in print as part of the series! Winners will receive 100 copies of their own postcard and a full set of the celebrity cards. Winners cards will also appear on the ACWE website.

Competition winners will be announced in May, 2010 and the winning postcards will appear on the ACWE website. Winners will also receive 100 postcards of their own entry and a full set of printed celebrity postcards.

There are three competition categories: Primary-age, Secondary-age and FE/Adult. Entry is free and the deadline is March 31st, 2010.

For more details, click here

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All Write! 2010 Competition

Allwrite2009
There are two competition categories:
  • 14-16 year-olds (Years 9, 10 and 11)
  • 16-19 year olds (Years 12 and 13)

Writing can be in any genre (poetry, short story, novel extracts, journalism, scripts, song lyrics etc) and on any topic.

The competition deadline is 31st July 2010. Entries are welcome now. Click here for poster (pdf format).

There is no word count limit but longer pieces may be abridged or edited. See the All Write! 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 anthologies for examples of previous successful work.

Competition winners will have their work published in All Write! 2010. The competition will be judged over the summer break and all participating schools will be invited to a celebration evening in November, where copies of the All Write! 2010 anthology will be presented to authors by celebrated writers.

You may submit entries by post or email.

Entry details that we need from you:

  • Your name
  • The title of your piece
  • The name of your school
  • Your contact details
  • Contacts details for your teacher (if possible)
To submit by email:
  • Email k.tew@mmu.ac.uk, including all the details requested above and with the subject heading "Competition2009"

To submit by post:

  • Send a copy of your work remembering to include all the information and contact details listed above.
The All Write! 2008 competition saw approximately 50 schools and colleges taking part from across the North West.

Thanks to previous Arts Council funding, we were able to supply copies of All Write in to all participating students and teachers free of charge and also provide writing and performance workshops for winning authors. We will, of course be applying for funding for 2009, but hope that schools and colleges will also support our project by purchasing copies of the anthologies for their school

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The Manchester Fiction Prize 2009



Under the direction of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, The Manchester Writing School at MMU launched the first Manchester Fiction Prize in early 2009. The competition was designed to find the best new short stories and celebrate them in Manchester - one of Europe's most adventurous and creative spaces. By the closing date of 1st August, the prize had attracted more than 1,700 entries from over 40 countries.
The winners will be announced at this special gala event at Manchester Town Hall on Fri 23rd October. There will be readings from the competition judges – distinguished novelists and short-story writers Sarah Hall, M. John Harrison and Nicholas Royle – and the competition finalists will read from their short-listed stories.
The £10,000 first prize will be awarded to the winning author, and a bursary for study at MMU will go to an entrant aged 18-25: the Manchester Young Writer of the Year. This event forms part of the 2009 Manchester Literature Festival

Venue: The Lord Mayor's Parlour, Manchester Town Hall, Albert Sqr, Manchester
Tickets:£7 (concessions £5)
Contact:Manchester Literature Festival box office: 0843 208 0500, or purchase tickets online via the MLF website. For further details, James Draper 0161 247 1787 or j.draper@mmu.ac.uk
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Many Hands Poetry Competition



Judged by copland smith

Chorlton’s Community Arts Café invites entries of poems up to 50 lines on the theme of community. 1st prize, gift vouchers worth £100; 2nd prize, gift vouchers worth £50; 3rd prize, gift vouchers worth £25. Winners will be announced 1st January, with an opportunity to read at the café and compete for the position of ManyHands Café Poet in Residence.

The competition closes on the 15th December. Please do not write your name on the poems themselves but instead include a separate page with poem titles, name and contact details. Entry fee £2 for one poem, £5 for up to three poems or £8 for up to six poems. Cheques payable to ManyHands Café.

Send to ManyHands Café, 2/20 Napier Road, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 8AW

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Anglo-British Short Story Competition



Do you have a passion for France? Are you a Francophile with a story to share? The FBC, in conjunction with Prospect magazine and Eurostar, is inviting those aged between 16 and 25 to submit a short story of no more than 1,500 words. The story should be inspired by France or the French. It could be based on a real or imagined visit to France, a French person you know in the UK (a friend or celebrity), a French lesson at school, a French film you have seen or it could be a work of pure imagination. The wining pieces will be published by Prospect and the best contributions will be included in a new collection of work to be published by the FBC. Click here for more details
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