The competition is called Libboo Bounty – www.libboo.com/bounty The deadline is the 1st March 2012 and the prize is a publishing deal with Libboo and $500 (shared between the successful authors). The theme is short-stories under the category of ‘Holiday & Vacation Mayhem’ – anything that tells the tale of disasters/comedy during a holiday or [...]

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Mind’s Eye Magazine is coming in June of this year. If you would like to see your work published and sold amongst the public, as well as the having the chance of winning a £50 Book Token, then all you need do is fulfil these criteria: Submit a piece of writing under one of these three [...]

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Welcome to the 12th Year of Scriptapalooza’s Television Writing Competition! Our intention is to open doors for the aspiring television. There are four categories you can submit to, which include 1 hour existing shows, 1/2 hour existing sitcom, original pilots and reality shows. The participants we have chosen to read the winning scripts are from established [...]

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We are now taking entries for our January writing competition. Offering you a chance to win £10o for your ‘how to’ article. The prize will be awarded for the best article submitted for the month of January, as judged by our editors. The article can be on any category and on any topic. As long [...]

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ABC Writers Network offer a fully searchable list of writing competitions mainly in the UK and Ireland but with a scattering from around the English speaking world. We hope to make the list more international in the months ahead. Here’s December 2010

We update our database twice weekly and are in the process of switching to a more orderly Monthly outlay.

If you have a genuine writing competition or contest that you’d like us to promote then please drop us a line we need to know the following:

Name of Competition

Closing Date: e.g 31 December, 2010
Details: A small description of what the contest is about
Fee:
Prize: 1^st 2^nd 3^rd
Details: Preferably a web address where we can direct readers to. Failing that a full postal address.

Below is our current offering for December 2010

Write Christmas Writing Competition

Closing Date: 24 December 2010
Details: The concept of Write Christmas is simple – to write a film review of the greatest Christmas film never made.
Fee: Doesn’t Seem To Be One But Check
Prize: Various
Details: Write Christmas Competition

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest

Closing Date: Dec 31, 2010
Details: Any Choice Of Subject, 30 lines or less, may be handwritten
Fee: $5.00 (US dollars) entry fee per poem submitted.
Prizes: $500, $250, $100
Details: Dream Quest One

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 The FBFT Sports Writing Competition 2011 is open to anyone aged 18 years or older.  Entries may be up to 1000 words in length and must be related to sport in some way. The three winning articles will receive the cash prizes as detailed and will be published on the website. We are particularly interested [...]

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We are now taking entries for our November writing competition, offering you the chance to win £100 for your ‘how to’ article! The prize will be awarded for the best article submitted during the month of November, as judged by our editors.   Here’s what Alan Barker, author of July’s winning entry, How to Run [...]

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First Prize: $300 and publication Second Prize: $150 and publication Third and Fourth Prize: publication Turtle Trails and Tales is holding its very first writing competition. Writers of any age are strongly encouraged to participate. Winning entries will be published on the front page of TurtleTrailsandTales.com, as well as in the Winter issue. There is [...]

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PPooDD is a cooperative and collaborative travel writing project holding monthly writing competitions to attract new membership and reward current members. There is no entry fee, but you must be an active participant in the project to enter.   November – Encounters With Animals December – Music January – Christmas   Closing date is the [...]

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November online writing contest – $3,000 prize fund   This competition is to find skilled and prolific writers of non-fiction content. The competition is hosted by Videojug Pages, a new knowledge & revenue-sharing website that has a growing writers’ community who write & publish hundreds of informative new Pages each week on VideojugPages.com.   The [...]

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