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I didn't realise that the online entry would close the day before the deadline or at least at midnight. I was planning to enter my story for the adult fairy tale last night until we had a very restless night with my daughter. I figured I could just do it first thing this morning. I'm so frustrated that I didn't get to enter as there's not really any other places I can send such a story. That'll teach me not to leave it to the last minute but I don't seem to be able to finish an idea without a deadline looming grrr. I really could kick myself.
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Thanks I've emailed Webbo and changed my spelling. Cheers for the heads up.
Thanks for your help though :-)
Sorry for the confusion
Please ignore that the listing now displays the incorrect closing date of 15/6. I had to do this to make it allow entries today.
This will be fixed ASAP. Thanks for highlighting it.
(I sounded a bit like Peter Kay then.)
I was going to post mine en route to work, then panicked in case it might not arrive in time since I was posting from N Ireland and decided to enter online, which I've never done before. Everything seemed to go okay until right at the end, after I'd typed in my bank account details, when it came up with an error. I called the person to whom the entries are addressed, but the phone clicked off on me twice and went dead. I called another number and got a very helpful person, Rebecca, who said she'd look into it. I went off to work but as I hadn't heard anything by lunchtime, I called again. Rebecca was still waiting to hear whether or not the entry had been received or the money had gone out of my bank account (£4 despite being a subscriber, but hey, I was desperate to get my entry in) Rebecca advised me to send off the hard copy with a cheque for £3 just in case the online entry hadn't gone through, and assured me that the second fee would be refunded if I'd already paid. Now I don't know if either of my entries have been received. :( I wouldn't mind, but this story took me ages to write so I'm hoping at least gets read!