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Free entry competition news
On the premises are back! To mark the occasion they're running a short story competition with a $250 top prize and lots of smaller prizes. They want 1,000 to 5,000 words about someone or something returning. Thanks to Alyson for letting me know.
Womag news
From Eirin Thompson - "Just wanted to let you know that The People's Friend has posted on Twitter/X inviting submissions of 3,000-word stories - any genre, any season. Hope this might be helpful to those not on Twitter/X." (Thanks to HB for also passing on that message.)
Fortunately I'd just had a rejection from TPF, so was able to submit something else to them. I super speedily wrote something fitting the requirements – and it was accepted two days later!
18 comments:
Congratulations on your TPF turnaround, Patsy. Interesting that you had a rejection. I just never hear back at all.
HB
Well done to all with positive news. I haven't got any news to report.
Congratulations Patsy on your TPF acceptance and making a rejection into a success, there's a story in that! Well done everyone else with acceptances or making submissions. And for those with less positive news, keep writing if you don't you'll never know what you might have achieved. I'm proof of that having just had my first acceptance by My Weekly, thanks to Alyson for encouraging me to try again. Thank you!
Thank you for all the information, and congratulations Patsy!
I sent a poem to the Wetherby Festival Comical Poem competition, I didn’t get anywhere, but it kept me amused writing it…!
I received my copy of the journal ‘Hooded: - Cosy Romance’ (Crowvus). It was lovely to read the stories, especially from those who contribute to this blog. Don’t think I’ll submit anything for ‘High Fantasy’, I wouldn’t know where to start with that one…
Dee
Congratulations Elizabeth, that is good news. Dee
Thank you Dee :)
The next Hooded submission window opens early November. There's nothing on their website at the moment about it.
Is that the next theme - high fantasy, Dee? If so, I'll be giving that one a miss. Like you, I wouldn't know where to start... this is Sharon at a quick read, but for some reason, it says anon.
Crowvus is https://crowvus.com/author-submissions/ yes, High Fantasy... hmmm. Not really me. Yes, Dee, lovely receiving the Hooded with 5 of us in it! I hope everyone finds one of the submission windows suitable at some point. The poem which was successful with the Portsmouth Authors' Collective with Victory was a failure at Wetherby from last year! Shows, you just gotta keep going! Trying somewhere else - on that, congratulations, Patsy. Thank you, Alyson, HB and Eiring for comps :)
Congratulations, Elizabeth! And does that mean My Weekly are accepting unsolicited subs? I really hope so...
Thanks Marguerite - yes it is High Fantasy, Sharon.
Dee
My weekly haven't opened their fiction submissions for new writers. It's still a closed list, as far as I know.
Sorry Marguerite it doesn't, I already had a Pocket Novel published by them,.
Ah, of course. Thank you.
Sorry, Eirin, trying to type on a tablet and failing.
I have a story in this week’s WW. Another is being published at Christmas. I entered Best’s Halloween competition, but obviously I’m not a winner or runner up. I’ve just come up with an idea for another Halloween story which will do for next year. That’s the good thing about seasonal themes. They come around every twelve months. Good luck to everybody with their submissions.
Michael
Don't give up hope, Michael, I had 8 days between finding out the Christmas win and publication date. Anyway, congrats on the WWs!
Thanks, Marguerite.
Michael
@ HB – I tend to either get quite fast responses, or nothing unless I query, which is what I did with this one. I don't mean it was rejected as a direct result of querying, just that my nudge lead to a response – I've also had acceptances after querying stories which have been out a long time.
@ Sharon – Thanks. I hope you get news, the good kind, soon.
@ Elizabeth – congratulations! The first one to a new (to you) publication is always special.
@ Marguerite – I think they'll also consider fiction submissions from people who have non fiction published with them, so if you've got any ideas for articles it might be worth pitching one.
@ Dee – If you enjoyed writing it, then it was worth doing.
@ Marguerite - it's great to be able to turn a 'failure' into a success - and shows that judging can be subjective and that a piece of writing which fails to pick up a prize / get published on the first attempt, might well have a better response elsewhere.
@ Michael – It's a sensible idea to take note of recurring themes and have work ready to submit.
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