Writing Magazine March 2020

WRITERS’ NEWS

92 MARCH 2020 http://www.writers-online.co.uk

The Lakeland

Book of the Year

Award showcases

how the Lake

District can inspire

creativity. The

2019 Award will

be given in a year

celebrating the

250th anniversary

of the birth of the

famous Lakeland

poet Wiliam

Wordsworth.

Entries are

welcomed from

authors and

publishers. The

closing date is 28

February.

Website: https://

writ.rs/lakeland

Six books are

in the running

for the Slightly

Foxed Best First

Biography Prize

2019, organised by

The Biographers’

Club. The winner

will receive £2,500

at a ceremony on

10 March.

Shortlisted are:

Nicholas Hilliard,

Elizabeth Goldring;

Self-Portrait, Celia

Paul; The Life and

Legend of the

Sultan Saladin,

Jonathan Phillips;

Mother Ship,

Francesca Segal;

My Name Is Why,

Lemn Sissay; The

Photographer at

Sixteen, George

Szirtes.

‘Respect to the

guy for sitting

there and

painstakingly

creating a whole

universe, but to

me it’s a load of

indecipherable

nonsense.

However, it’s

sold 150m

copies, spawned

countless big-

budget movies

and I quite like the

idea of getting a

royalty statement

thicker than a

phone book.’

This is Going to

Hurt author Adam

Kay on Lord of the

Rings.

FLASHES

Frontier opportunity for new poets

GLOBAL POETRY MARKET

Jenny Roche

Welcoming international writers,

under represented and marginalised

voices, Frontier Poetry seeks to

provide a platform for new and

emerging voices, ie those who

have not had more than one full

length work published at the time

of submission. If you have self-

published work on social media,

personal pages, Amazon, etc, or

had published work with a print

run of less than 500 copies, you are

eligible to submit.

It is advised you send only

your best work. ‘Bend language,

experiment with visuality and

form, lay your heart bare on the

page,’ say guidelines. Simultaneous

submissions will be considered, just

submit a note if it then becomes

accepted elsewhere. Simultaneous

submissions will not be considered.

Submit no more than ten pages

or five poems along with a cover

letter noting any publication history,

your educational background and

personal history and what drives

your passion for writing. If you

would like a 1-2 page feedback on

your work or a fast response these

are available for a fee.

Payment rates are $50-$150 for

first publication rights for a three

month period.

Submit using the Submittable

link on the website and include all

poems in one document.

Website: http://www.frontierpoetry.

com/submit/

Golden light

Win £500 for fiction up to 5,000 words in the

international 2020 Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize.

Short Fiction journal has relaunched its competition in

affiliation with the Department of Literature, Film and

Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. This year’s

judge will be Jon McGregor.

The first prize is £500 and there is a runner-up prize

of £250. The two winners will be published online by

Short Fiction.

Enter original, unpublished prose fiction up to

5,000 words.

The entry fee is £7 for entries submitted in February,

and £9 for entries submitted in March.

The closing date is 31 March.

Website: http://www.shortfictionjournal.co.uk

Keep it short

Gold Wake Press is a US indie which ‘seeks

to bring voices to the spotlight who combine

daring content with meticulous attention to

form’. It publishes poetry but is open to full-

length manuscripts in all genres.

The team also publish the thrice-yearly

Gold Wake Live, an online journal of poetry

and prose. Submit prose, under 3,000 words,

or five pieces of flash or poems. Follow the

guidelines and submit online.

Full-length book submissions open on 1

March. Writers who have bought one of their

books through their Submittable system get a

free manuscript submission.

Website: https://goldwake.com; submit online, guidelines:

https://goldwake.com/guidelines/

The Windsor Fringe Kenneth

Branagh Drama Award is

inviting entries.

Amateur playwrights can enter

one-act plays in the international

scriptwriting competition.

Three winning scripts will be

selected for performance at the

2020 Windstor Fringe Festival.

The overall winner will

receive £500.

Enter original, unperformed

one-act plays. Entries should be

no longer than thirty minutes,

have a cast of no more than six

actors, and be suitable for staging

in a studio theatre.

Only amateur playwrights

may enter.

There is a £10 reading fee per

script.

The closing date is 5 March.

Website: http://www.windsorfringe.

co.uk/drama-writing-

awards-2020.html

THE (SHORT)

PLAY’S THE

THING