How about a mass historical entry in one or either?
See the Early Works Press website and details. Payment by Paypal and e-mail entries allowed for overseas entrants!
http://www.earlyworkspress.co.uk/Competitions.htm
Sixty Word Sagas
£100 in prizes
1st prize £60, 2nd £30, 3rd £10
Flash fiction on any topic you like. Points will be awarded for style and entertainment value. Aim for 60 words exactly. Points deducted for every word over or under. Closes April 30th, 2008. The winning entries will be published on the website.
Open Short Story Competition
£100 1st prize. Publication for best entries.
Rules and Conditions
- The competition is open to anyone over 16.
- The first prize is £100 and first place in the anthology. The best entries will be published, and their authors will receive one complimentary copy. 10-20 will be included, depending on length. All winners will be offered further copies at a reduced price.
- Closing date September 30th 2008. Winners will be notified by November.
- Entry fee £5 up to 4000 words, £10 for 4 – 8000 words. Max 8000. Payment in pounds sterling. POs or cheques payable to Kay Green.
- Stories must be the work of the entrant, previously unpublished, and not simultaneously entered for other competitions.
- Stories must be titled and typed/clearly written on one side of A4 paper.
- Names must not appear on the stories. Each entry must have a cover-sheet attached, marked ES4, giving title(s) of stories(s), word count, author’s name, address, and/or telephone number/email address. Please say where you heard about this competition.
- The competitions are judged anonymously and the judges’ decision is final. No discussion will be entered into.
- Entries are not returnable and cannot be acknowledged without SAE marked for that purpose.
- Copyright remains with the author although Earlyworks Press reserves the right to publish winning entries in a competition anthology in 2008/9.
- email entries only accepted where access to UK post/currency is denied. (Email us for assistance if this is the case)
- Send paper copy to Earlyworks Press, Creative Media Centre, 45 Robertson Street , Hastings Sussex TN34 1HL.
- Submission of work will be taken as acceptance of rules and conditions.
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