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Writing
Magazine competition programme
Writers' News competition
programme
After a long association with the David St John Thomas Charitable
Trust, Writers' News and Writing Magazine have launched
their own exciting competition programmes, with lots of prizes and
extra opportunities for short story and poetry winners to be published
either in print or online.
The DSJT Trust continues to organise its own writing competitions,
details of which appear in Writers' News, giving our subscribers
access to the Trust's programme as well.
Our new WN/WM programme has been designed so there
will be a smarter turn-around in the judging process, with all main
prizewinners being published within five to six months of a competition
being announced. The timetable still makes it convenient for entries
from overseas.
There will be year-round money-saving benefits for our Writers'
News subscribers, with free entry to all WN competitions.
Writers' News entries will no longer need to be accompanied
by three first-class stamps or, in the case of overseas entries, two
International Reply Coupons.
The normal fee for each Writing Magazine short story and poetry entry will
be £4, but as an added benefit our subscribers will pay only £3
per entry.
Full competition rules will appear in December's Writing Magazine
and Writers' News.
The full Writers' News/Writing Magazine 2006-2007
programmes – sometimes offering first, second and third places
in both short story and poetry categories – with its imaginative
range of subjects to get the writing juices flowing, appear here
and here.
There you will see a fascinating selection chosen by our competition
compiling team, based on both traditional themes and contemporary
life. The choice is yours: draw your ideas from past times, or use
your talents to dwell on what is offered by present day experiences
or observations.
The list of short story subjects represents a collection of situations
and subjects from which to create the heroes, villains, dreamers,
winners, losers, humdrum nobodies, high-fliers... or whichever characters
you create to populate your tales.
To take just a brief look at what is on offer, it could be someone
in debt (WM, January), a railway ghost (WM, March),
a gambler (WN, April), a swimmer (WN, October).
You will also be able to celebrate literary and other anniversaries
with poetry reflecting the modern world: the commercialisation of
St Valentine's Day, Space travel, Letters from abroad...
In different vein, you will be given the opportunity to write poetry
in diverse styles – the villanelle of five three-line stanzas,
the 31-syllable Japanese Tanka, for example.
All first prize-winning short stories will be published in Writers'
News or Writing Magazine as appropriate; second and
third prize-winning stories will be published on this website; selected
runners-up may also appear on our website.
First, second, and possibly third prize-winning poems will be published
in Writers' News or Writing Magazine as appropriate;
they, and selected runners-up, may also be published on this website.
Do join in. Enjoy the experience... and good luck to everyone.
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