Womag news
In case you missed Liz's comment on last week's post, she said – "A heads-up that a couple of writers have had stories accepted by Woman's World over a year after they submitted them. Until the past few weeks, writers could assume rejection after around 3 months. Also, recent acceptance emails have been sent out around publication time rather than a few weeks before. This probably isn't an issue for the solve-it-yourself mystery writers as there are no other outlets that accept that format. But the romance writers will need to be aware of it."
I wonder why that is? Could they be short of submissions? The magazine's website is here. I couldn't find any official submission guidelines, but this blog might be of interest.
Free entry competition news
The Tom Grass Prize is for 'a short piece of stand-alone prose in either Fiction or Non-Fiction (1,500 - 3,000 words). It can be adapted from a longer work but must be satisfying to read by itself. '
• Open to emerging writers over the age of 25 from around the world
• £1000 for first prize, and two runners-up prizes, each £500
• Judged by a panel including literary agents
• Submission deadline 31st March 2025
• Fiction, non-fiction or journalistic writing
The current Best competition is for a crime or thriller story of up to 1,200 words. Quite a few followers of this blog have won or been runner up in this competition (I was runner up in the last one), so it's definitely worth a try.
If the t&cs are too small to read, right click on them and save to your desktop - you should then be able to enlarge them (works with any online image of sufficient resolution).
9 comments:
Thanks for the competitions, Patsy.
Interesting Best say, ‘We’d love to hear from previously unpublished authors’.
I hadn’t noticed that before.
HB
Thanks Patsy great information as usual. That's very strange about Woman's World though, publishing after so long without notifying the authors in advance. Could be messy.
Also don't they take all rights? If you've sold the story elsewhere, it could be, as Shelagh says, very messy. I mentioned last time that TPF were also accepting stories after their cut off rejection time of a year.
Thanks for the competition info. It's always good to know the current theme for the Best competition, although this one probably isn't for me. Might have a go at the Tom Grass one.
Thanks for the competitions and information, Patsy.
Yes, fed up with winter here as well. Just spent a couple of hours in the garden but its still really muddy and rain and wind forecast for tomorrow...
@HB I had a look back over some of Best's previous calls for entries and they often use to say 'we'd love to hear from budding writers' but not always! The phrasing is different on each of the competition pages.
Thanks for the comp info Patsy. I'm never clear though with Best's comp if your contact details should be on the story or if it should be anonymous and contact details given separately. I do both which is probably incorrect!
Thank you, Patsy. I might have a go at the Tom Grass too. When I did my Best entry (Christmas), I had my name/contact details on the front page and then started the story just below that, if that helps, Elizabeth. Comps will usually/should say if they want anonymous. In a not unrelated question, would love to know how many they get :) I imagine it's 'a lot', but I have no idea what that is! Since June 21st is 'Midsummer', my reckoning is March 21st is mid-spring, which make it well in to the start of spring now :) That's what I keep telling myself anyway!
Thanks, Alyson.
It made me wonder re your previous post about not being picked a second time.
HB
Thanks Marguerite, I'll try doing it that way if I decide to give it a go.
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