Writers aged under 21 may be interested in this competition. There are cash prizes for the authors, plus book tokens for their school to be won.
It was my birthday yesterday (these gorgeous flowers are from Gary) and I'm not 21 anymore. (Not that I was at the start of the week!) Do you know any writers that young? I don't think I do.
I may have mentioned this crime writing competition before. My memory isn't great. It never was, and I don't suppose it's going to get better. Still, it looks like a great opportunity so it won't hurt to have a reminder.
Good things often come in threes. which is why I try to include links to at least three free to enter writing competitions each week – and why there were three different types of chocolate chunk in my birthday cake!
You may remember that I was a finalist in a short story
competition run by Nottingham Writer's Studio last year. I've already had the cash prize, my paperback copy is on the way and the ebook is available here. I love the striking cover image and the way it references several of the stories – mine included, I think.
Thanks to Carrie Hewlett for the following ...
My news
Several years ago I won a novel writing competition and Escape To The Country was published (on my birthday) as a result.
Unfortunately the publisher didn't last long, but I got my rights back and re-published it. It's available as an ebook and paperback – and I've just got the cover for the audio version which will be released later this year.
If you've read the book, is this how you imagined Leah, Tarragon (the dog) Rosemary (the cow) and Aunt Jayne's home of Primrose Cottage?
9 comments:
Congratulations on being included in the Black Lives Anthology. Yvvette Edwards is a fabulous writer (and a lovely person.) And that birthday cake. You need birthdays every month.
Happy belated birthday Patsy, flowers and cake look gorgeous.
Well done on being included in the anthology, and thank you for the comp links.
I absolutely love the cover of Escape to the Country, fairly brings the story to life.
Enjoy those three types of chocolate chunks, I'm so jealous.
Happy Birthday Patsy! Your flowers are beautiful. And that's awesome that you got your rights back.
Happy Birthday, Patsy. And congrats on being a finalist - it's nice to hear of someone I 'know' doing well in these competitions. The Escape to the Country cover looks great.
Happy Birthday for yesterday, Patsy - cake looked scrumptious! Flowers lovely too :)I fancy living in Primrose Cottage...,. Thank you for the comps - I like those regular ones because you can nip in when you want - one to add to my list :)Well done for inclusion in the anthology!
Happy Easter everyone, and I hope you had a happy birthday, Patsy... cake looked gorgeous.
Just in case anyone has been trying unsuccessfully to upload their republished stories from Woman's Weekly's Best Of Fiction to ALCS - I've been in touch with Ersilia at ALCS and sent her the details she asked for, a cover shot of the mag showing the barcode - which includes the ISSN - and a link to the website where the magazine is listed. Hopefully it will be enough to see it added to their database. Don't know how long that will take (it's Easter, after all) but at some point it should enable us to claim our ALCS payments. Although Future Publishing buy All Rights, I checked with Emma, WW's former fiction ed, last year and she confirmed that they have no objection to us claiming ALCS payments.
@ Lindsay – A monthly birthday cake sounds a good idea – as long as it didn't age me faster!
@ Elizabeth – Thank you. The cake was at least as good as it looked.
@ Natalie – The flowers look even better now!
@ Eirin – I know what you mean. It's encouraging to see names we recognise in the lasts of finalists.
@ Marguerite – It's nice to feel you can have another try isn't it?
@ Chris – Thanks for the info. I've found ALCS to be very helpful when I've had queries.
Fabulous - the cake, the flowers and the cover picture.
Many Happy Returns on all three.
Karelann67
Thanks, Karelanne.
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