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Open competitions
Sharpen your pencils and plots with a sneak peek at our
competition programme for the end of 2020£250
TO BE WON
EVERY MONTH
All the competitions previewed on this page are open to any writer. Enter online at
http://www.writers-online.co.uk or see the relevant issue of Writing Magazine for more
details. Prizes are £200 and £50 each month, with publication in WM for the winner.
Please note, competitions will open for entries on publication of the full competition
details in the relevant issue of Writing Magazine.COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
OCTOBER
500 Words
Keep it short to get a
sweet result. Make every
word count as you tell any
kind of story, in any kind of
style or form as long it’s no
longer than 500 words.DECEMBER
Open
The choice is yours for this competition- any story, any style, any genre.
It’s up to you. Just make sure
it’s a winner!
JULY
Dark tales
From creepy spec fic to bleak psychological
thrillers, make you story nasty and ghastly so it
puts the frighteners on us to win this competition.AUGUST
Love
Who loves who and how the situation
plays out is up to you – we’re looking for
all kinds of love stories, from those that
break your heart to the ones that make
you believe in happy ever after.NOVEMBER
Epistolary
People writing to each other is a great
way for writers to drip-feed their story,
so tell yours via letters, emails, tweets,
texts... even smoke signals!SEPTEMBER
Dystopian
Whatever genre you chose
to write and whatever issues
caused your dystopia to exist,
explore the idea of ‘what if’ to
create future and alternative
worlds in stories you enter.