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£250

The short story competitions previewed here are open only to subscribers

of Writing Magazine. Enter online at http://www.writers-online.co.uk or see the

relevant issue of WM for more details. Prizes are £100 and £25 each month, with

publication in WM for the winner.

Short story competitions

SUBSCRIBER–ONLY

£125

TO BE WON

EVERY MONTH

SEPTEMBER

First person

Whether your first-person narrator is reliable or

unreliable, letting your story unfold in their own

words lets you experiment with voice, style

and point of view.

NOVEMBER

Senses

Play with texture and style in your

fiction by bringing the senses to

life in words. Sight, sound, touch,

taste, hearing – how will you

convey these in your story?

JULY

Stranger

Open poetry competitions

COMPETITION GUIDE 2020

First person

Whether your first-person narrator is reliable or

unreliable, letting your story unfold in their own

words lets you experiment with voice, style

and point of view.

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Who is the stranger

in your story, are

they friend or foe,

and what effect

do they have on

the fictional world

they enter? We’re

looking forward

to meeting the

strangers in your

stories.

£150

TO BE WON

EVERY MONTH

OCTOBER

Crime poem

Crimes against a person?

Crimes against humanity?

Chose any style, from ballads to

beat poetry, to rhyme the crime

and win this competition.

AUGUST

Different reality

Use your poetic imagination to depart

from reality and conjure different

possibilities in poems of any style.

DECEMBER

Open

What’s the best unpublished poem

you’ve written all year? Whatever style

it is, and whatever subject, that’s the

one to enter in WM’s annual Open

Poetry Competition.