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Womag / free entry competition news
From Sharon Boothroyd "Prima are running a crime story comp that's free to enter. The CD is 27th October. You are given an opening to start the story (written by a published novelist) then the writer has to finish it. I think they take all rights to the winner.
Thank you, ladies!
Womag news
Also from Alison, are a couple of tweets she spotted from The People's Friend.
Here's a shout out from Fiction Ed Lucy! We're now looking for stories from mid-January onwards for the weekly, and from spring onwards for our specials.
We're also looking for 3500 word stories of any genre. Please remember seasonal stories must be sent in six months in advance.
11 comments:
Thanks Patsy, Sharon and Alison for the competition info (and super photos Patsy).
Catching up after being away. Was shortlisted in the latest Globe Soup competition and had a few ‘sorry not this time’ emails, but plough on!
Looking at the previous blog comments on Readly, wondering if people know that you can share your subscription? My son, husband and sister all use my account, so it gets well used.
And scrolling through My Weekly on Readly I spotted the All About You page. I sent off two photos and short captions - one of a circus trapeze artist and another of shadow figures waving on a beach - then a few weeks later got a cheque for £25. I’m still waiting to find out which one they chose!
Me again! Forgot to say, thank you to whoever listed the Inclusive Voices competition on here. I started my entry, but the word limit was 550 and I felt I couldn’t squeeze my story into it. I sent the longer, finished story to PF and it was accepted.
I’d never have written a story about someone with failing hearing and eyesight without the prompt of the competition theme.
As the first prize in the competition is an Echo Dot (which I don’t want) and the second a £20 voucher, I feel I definitely won!
Well done, Fiona. Think I might have mentioned the Voices comp... Being a Globe Soup finalist is wonderful. Was that the flashback comp? The winning story was wonderful!
I sold two stories to TPF yesterday both 3500 words - I guess that's the length they were reading and hence the call out.
Alyson (not Alison!)
Thank you, Patsy, and everyone for the comps and info.
Congratulations to those with successes. Unfortunately, no such good news to report, but as Fiona says, plough on.
I wasn’t surprised to hear (from Sheelagh in last week’s comments) that TPF Writing Hour has finished but thought the abrupt way it ended was quite shocking and not very ‘Friend’-like.
Well done to all with positive news. I don't have anything to report. Reading the t&C's in the prima crime comp, it looks like they take the rights to every entry, but I could be wrong. I don't know what hearst intend to with every entry.
Good morning , thank you for all the Womag and competition news, and congratulations Fiona.
Re comments last week. Interesting to read about Readly, and also what you can access with a library card. I hadn’t realised that. Thank you Sharon and Marguerite. People are who comment on this blog are so supportive and helpful.
Also, in the Prima ongoing 800 word monthly competition, Hearst states that by entering the competition the copyright, and all other rights in respect of the entry, shall be assigned to them. Dee
Congratulations Alyson re TPF acceptances.
Oh dear, just noticed an extra 'are' appeared in my comment. I pressed Publish too quickly...! Dee
Another of those... don't get me started topics! I wrote to Hearst a while ago re the Prima rights - for everything, published or not, to clarify - twice - ignored! I might try again, once a week, every week, until I get an answer! ðŸ˜
Re: the normal 800 words prima comp.
I contacted Prima last year and they said that actually, despite what it states in the mag, they take the rights to the winning entry only (I've kept the message, just in case).
I don't know if they've simply copied their T&C's over to this crime competition. Either way, the T&C's are not clear in either comp.
Thank you, Sharon. That makes sense, surely? Surely they don't want everyone's story to make into feature films and live off the film rights. I think it is probably a bit of the legalese that's used for other components of the mag that's just got scooped up in the short story comps. Anyway, a thank you to Sharon and Alison for all the details. I so wish I could sustain 3500 words! I must try.
Congratulations to Fiona and Alyson 🙂. Nothing to report here except I've already submitted two for the Crowvus Ghost stories (paid) for end of September and keep slogging away at the WM ones... with no luck. Several now shortlisted but that's it. And yes, I have tried to analyse the ones that have been shortlisted. They are not my natural type (science fictiony type things that have a unique take). I'm really not into science fiction!
Letters I've had printed (in WM) have, without exception, been things I've been passionate about and it shows through.
That's an almost surreal photo, Patsy. Very atmospheric.
Thanks all & congratulations to everyone who has had good news. Ive nothing to report myself I'm afraid. Thanks to Marguerite I've sorted out borrow box from the library though despite access to thousands of magazines, including Woman's Weekly TPF is not one of them so I'm taking Sharon up on her kind offer to let me know if she sees something of mine. I often buy it but I could easily miss especially if it's published in a special as my local newsagents don't stock the special. Thanks again Sharon.
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