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Erewash Writers' Group Competitions are open to all
I've started this as I noted Cooper on another thread was upset as some countries are excluded from writing competitions.
EWG competitions are open to all.
We currently have two flash fiction and two short story competitions organised for 2013. Two of these competitions are FREE ENTRY. One of our competitions provides a donation and a UK charity or voluntary group of your choosing could receive this cash.
Please read Rules of Entry before submitting an entry.
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/
If you'd like further details about each competition, and/or an entry form and Rules of Entry, see our website. Alternatively, whisper your email address to me and I'll be happy to send them through.
Thanks.
Comments
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Thankee kindly.
If your entry is listed here, please don't identify which is yours for the time being.
http://writingworkshopsandcompetitions.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com
We have three further competitions for 2013
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-burst-flash-fiction-competition.html
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-open-short-story-competition---maria-smith.html
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/2013-full-stop-short-story-competition---helen-baggott.html
I only saw the shortlist, so I didn't get the chance to appreciate it (or not). That's the problem with competitions - a different set of readers at the first stage would probably have produced a different shortlist. A different judge would have picked a different winner. It's all subjective, as you say, although you'd hope that the best stories will always be nudging their way towards the top of the heap.
Good luck with sending your entry somewhere else.
The more we write, the better our writing becomes. As a result the more likely we are to produce a story that will be one of the best stories in the competition, nudging a way towards the top of the heap.
I will be putting the results on the website tomorrow after I have phoned the winner. Second placed and a third entry which received honourable mention have been emailed tonight.
That made me chuckle.
Congrats to all involved. Sounds like another success, Dora.
And yes, Toothlight's and Dan's comments made me chuckle too. :)
just about to put the details on the website!
http://writingworkshopsandcompetitions.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/result-for-start-flash-fiction.html?spref=tw
Any Talkbackers in the lists?
I won the Honourable Mention for my story You Start.
It's my first EVER short story success, after all the duds.
It does not behove a writer to say she is lost for words, and it's a cliche, so let's just say I am chuffed, thrilled and jumping for joy.
I know how difficult it is to win an Erewash competition, and to receive such an accolade.
Thanks a million Erewash, dora and Dan.
I genuinely would never have guessed it was you - Dora removed all the entrants' details from the entries and I didn't recognise any of the writing styles. I thought "You Start" had probably been written by a woman but that was as far as my intuition took me.
The hardcover book pictured on my blog is - sadly - just a computer model. I wondered about getting a few like that manufactured, but I think they'd be too expensive (and I didn't think anybody would be interested in buying one). The paperback is for sale on Amazon, but I'm looking to set up a PayPal button on my blog so people can get a signed copy direct from me. I have a few at home so it would be good to sell them direct if people are interested.
Congratulations again, and may it be the first short story success of a great many. Well done.
Drinks on you at Honiton, I think.
http://www.beaconrcc.org.uk/message_board/images/smiles/icon_winky.gif
Well done, YOU!!
I didn't come anywhere either, Toothlight, but it sounds like our 'young' judge did a good job!
It's a tad irritating.
If you are trying to view the information on the weebly site, I am sorry but it's just so difficult. I don't know what's going on with it.
For those that prefer their judges to be a little on the mature side...stay tuned.
*sings 'Doh, a deer' while waiting*
Yes thanks S&M, competition was successful.
Right, well the judge's report is finally on the site.
Has only taken me about four hours BUT it's there. :)
Has only taken me about four hours BUT it's there. [/quote]
Well done for persevering, Dora. Very odd that Weebly is unco-operative to the point of you having to print out the report and scan it. If you'd like me to email you a PDF exported from Word, just let me know. I'm guessing you've had enough of fighting with the site for now, though.
I had to keep loggin out of Weebly and back in again. Very odd, yes.
So there may be a problem somewhere.
I can' t even get in to Weebly today.
Can somebody else try and see if it's just me, please?
I am back in now. I think it's a general prob with my computer.
Note to Self: Don't offer to do something then bugger off for the weekend. Sorry, Dora - I'll send that to you as soon as I can.
:)
Sums up life perfectly.
:)
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/winners-2013.html
Well done that TBer. :)
And congratulations, Dora.
"Aaaaaaw, gosh!"
pbw, I read yours first and loved it. So intimate and real.
I enjoyed the others, too.