This week’s competitions that have caught my eye:

New-Media Writing Prize 2011 

Category: Fiction
Closes: 31st October 2011
Fees: £0 for one entry.
Prizes: £0 for first place. Prize of software/hardware/meeting digital publishers at awards evening
Details: Entries must be digital multi-media writing for iPad, internet, mobile phones etc. Must not be printable – must be for digital media. International competition. Second year. Special student prize as well as main prize. Awards ceremony at BU in November.
http://www.newmediawritingprize.co.uk/

The Short Story Fiction Competition

Category: Fiction
Closes: 15th September 2011
Fees: £0 for one entry.
Prizes: £300 for first place. £150; £50.
Details: For short stories up to 5,000 words, submitted by email only. No poetry, novel chapters, sci-fi, fantasy or stories for children.
Email: submit.theshortstory@gmail.com
http://www.theshortstory.net

Writer’s Digest Horror Competition

Category: Fiction
Closes: 31st October 2011
Fees: $20 for one entry.
Prizes: $1,000 for first place. $500.
Details: For horror stories up to 4,000 words.
Contact: WD Horror Competition, 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236
http://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/wd-horror-competition

Fantasy Book Review Fantasy Short Story

Category: Fiction
Closes: 10th September 2011
Fees: £0 for one entry.
Prizes: £0 for first place. Apple iPad; Amazon Kindle x 2.
Details: For fantasy stories between 2,000 and 5,000 words.
Email: f

antasyshortstorycompetition@fantasybookreview.co.uk
http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/blog/2011/04/10/fantasy-book-review-fantasy-short-story-competition-2011

RWA

2011 Gateway to the Best

Sponsor: Missouri Romance Writers of America (MORWA)
Fee: $20 for MORWA Members for 1st entry & $10 for additional entries; $30 for Non-MORWA Members for 1st entry & $15 for additional entries
Deadline: September 9, 2011
Eligibility: Open to unpublished authors and authors who have not been contracted in novel-length fiction (40,000+) in last 3 years.
Entry: Electronic entry only. Entry length limited to first 7,000 words (25-28 pages). No synopsis.
Judges: Published, Unpublished, PRO writers
Categories and Final Round Judges: Laura Barth, HQ, Contemporary Series; Esi Sogah, HarperCollins, Historical; Adam Wilson, HQ Teen, YA; Margo Lipschultz, HQ, Romantic Suspense; Katherine Pelz, Berkley, Single Title; Latoya Smith, Grand Central Publishing, Paranormal.
Top Prize: $100 & entire manuscript critiqued by published author.
FMI, http://www.morwa.org/gateway.htm.

Fiction from the Heartland Contest

Sponsor: Mid-America Romance Authors (MARA)
Fee: $30.00
Deadline: September 9, 2011
Eligibility: unpublished in book-length fiction in the past five years of deadline.
Entry: Prologue/First Chapter/Synopsis (max. 35 pages).
Judges: at least one published author and experienced critiquers.
Final Judges: one editor and one agent.
Top Prize: $50.00 and Plaque.
FMI, categories and final round judges, www.mararwa.com.

Kathryn Hayes Love & Laughter Contest

Sponsor: RWA/NYC
Fee: $25–30.00
Deadline: September 12, 2011
Entry: See website for criteria.
Judges: experienced, published authors.
Final Judges: editor/agent.
FMI, cwgreenfed@aol.com, or visit www.rwanyc.com/Love-LaughterContest.html.

Good luck and let me know how you get on.

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