Literary
Page & Blackmore Booksellers
National Short Story Competition 2018
Judge: Catherine Chidgey
Deadline: 3rd April 2018
Rules and entry forms available from: www.topwriters.co.nz
Or Page & Blackmore Booksellers, 254 Trafalgar Street, Nelson.
Details of the following opportunities may be found at: https://thewritersbloc.net/writingopportunities
Room Magazine: The Queer Issue
They want fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry by women and queergender folk who identify as part of the LGBTQIA community. The work itself need not be queer in focus. CLOSING 31/01/18
International Rubery Book Award
The Rubery Prize is a prestigious international book award seeking the best books by indie writers, self published authors and books published by independent presses, judged by reputable judges. Creative writing is such a key part of life for those who enjoy writing yet it is increasingly difficult to become traditionally published. Through our reputation of finding quality and outstanding books we aim to bring recognition to the works that win and heighten an author's profile. The Rubery Prize is now a well-established name in the publishing world. In 2017 the prize pot is approximately £2000. £1500 of which is allocated to our Book of the Year.
CLOSING 31/03/18
NATURE AND PLACE POETRY COMPETITION 2018
The Rialto working with the RSPB, BirdLife International and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place – these terms will be given a wide interpretation by the judge.
Closing Date March 1st 2018
PRIZES 1st prize – £1000 2nd prize – £500 3rd prize – A place on a creative writing course at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre in 2018
TWO ADDITIONAL PRIZES
A personal tour with Mark Cocker of his most cherished wildlife places in East Anglia.
A personal tour with Nick Davies of his beloved Wicken Fen to learn about his research there.
Tŷ Newydd (Third Prize) National Writing Centre of Wales and offers an impressive range of Creative Writing courses in the beautiful coastal surroundings of north-west Wales. (www.tynewydd.wales).*
Mark Cocker is one of Britain’s most celebrated writers on nature. He is author of the magnificent Birds and People as well as the award winning Crow Country and Birds Britannica. He writes and broadcasts regularly in national media and his column in The Guardian has run for more than 30 years.**
Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge. For many years his work has focused on the evolutionary battle between cuckoos and their hosts and has been based at Wicken Fen in Cambridge. In 2015 Nick published Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, a book David Attenborough describes as, ‘an amazing detective story by one of the country’s greatest field naturalists’.**
*The prize is for a shared room accommodation, and does not include the cost of travel to and from the Centre.
**The prize does not include the cost of travel or accommodation.
The prizewinners will be invited to read their poems at an event with Michael Longley at CCI in Spring 2018. The winning poems will be published in The Rialto, Britain’s leading independent poetry magazine. All profits raised by the competition go to support conservation. CLOSING 01/03/18
Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest 2018
In the wake of Earth’s hottest year on record, the effects of climate change are more apparent than ever. But how do we come to grips with the consequences on the ground, for actual people in specific places? Paolo Bacigalupi, renowned for his climate fiction novels and short stories, believes the answer lies in story: “Fiction has this superpower of creating empathy in people for alien experiences. You can live inside of the skin of a person who is utterly unlike you.” If our political responses and our empathy for people besieged by the consequences of climate change fall short, perhaps we need new stories to help us imagine possible futures shaped by climate change and our reactions to it.
Last year, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University hosted the 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest, inviting writers from around the world to submit speculative fiction stories exploring climate change, narrating a world in flux. We were thrilled to receive submissions from 67 different countries, and to publish 12 finalists in a digital anthology, Everything Change.
For the 2018 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest, we are broadening the scope, enthusiastically inviting submissions in all genres of short fiction, including speculative, realistic, literary, experimental, hybrid forms, and more. Climate change is so massive and sometimes so ineffable that we need all of the tools of narrative to adequately understand it and share stories and experiences about it.
The contest will once again be judged by science fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of many foundational works in climate fiction, along with other climate fiction experts from ASU.
The winning story will receive a $1,000 prize. Nine finalists will receive $50 each. The winner and finalists will be published in an online anthology, which will be free to download, read, and share.
POSTED 29/11/17
CLOSING
28/02/18
Page & Blackmore Booksellers
National Short Story Competition 2018
Judge: Catherine Chidgey
Deadline: 3rd April 2018
Rules and entry forms available from: www.topwriters.co.nz
Or Page & Blackmore Booksellers, 254 Trafalgar Street, Nelson.
Details of the following opportunities may be found at: https://thewritersbloc.net/writingopportunities
Room Magazine: The Queer Issue
They want fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry by women and queergender folk who identify as part of the LGBTQIA community. The work itself need not be queer in focus. CLOSING 31/01/18
International Rubery Book Award
The Rubery Prize is a prestigious international book award seeking the best books by indie writers, self published authors and books published by independent presses, judged by reputable judges. Creative writing is such a key part of life for those who enjoy writing yet it is increasingly difficult to become traditionally published. Through our reputation of finding quality and outstanding books we aim to bring recognition to the works that win and heighten an author's profile. The Rubery Prize is now a well-established name in the publishing world. In 2017 the prize pot is approximately £2000. £1500 of which is allocated to our Book of the Year.
CLOSING 31/03/18
NATURE AND PLACE POETRY COMPETITION 2018
The Rialto working with the RSPB, BirdLife International and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place – these terms will be given a wide interpretation by the judge.
Closing Date March 1st 2018
PRIZES 1st prize – £1000 2nd prize – £500 3rd prize – A place on a creative writing course at Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre in 2018
TWO ADDITIONAL PRIZES
A personal tour with Mark Cocker of his most cherished wildlife places in East Anglia.
A personal tour with Nick Davies of his beloved Wicken Fen to learn about his research there.
Tŷ Newydd (Third Prize) National Writing Centre of Wales and offers an impressive range of Creative Writing courses in the beautiful coastal surroundings of north-west Wales. (www.tynewydd.wales).*
Mark Cocker is one of Britain’s most celebrated writers on nature. He is author of the magnificent Birds and People as well as the award winning Crow Country and Birds Britannica. He writes and broadcasts regularly in national media and his column in The Guardian has run for more than 30 years.**
Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge. For many years his work has focused on the evolutionary battle between cuckoos and their hosts and has been based at Wicken Fen in Cambridge. In 2015 Nick published Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, a book David Attenborough describes as, ‘an amazing detective story by one of the country’s greatest field naturalists’.**
*The prize is for a shared room accommodation, and does not include the cost of travel to and from the Centre.
**The prize does not include the cost of travel or accommodation.
The prizewinners will be invited to read their poems at an event with Michael Longley at CCI in Spring 2018. The winning poems will be published in The Rialto, Britain’s leading independent poetry magazine. All profits raised by the competition go to support conservation. CLOSING 01/03/18
Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest 2018
In the wake of Earth’s hottest year on record, the effects of climate change are more apparent than ever. But how do we come to grips with the consequences on the ground, for actual people in specific places? Paolo Bacigalupi, renowned for his climate fiction novels and short stories, believes the answer lies in story: “Fiction has this superpower of creating empathy in people for alien experiences. You can live inside of the skin of a person who is utterly unlike you.” If our political responses and our empathy for people besieged by the consequences of climate change fall short, perhaps we need new stories to help us imagine possible futures shaped by climate change and our reactions to it.
Last year, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University hosted the 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest, inviting writers from around the world to submit speculative fiction stories exploring climate change, narrating a world in flux. We were thrilled to receive submissions from 67 different countries, and to publish 12 finalists in a digital anthology, Everything Change.
For the 2018 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest, we are broadening the scope, enthusiastically inviting submissions in all genres of short fiction, including speculative, realistic, literary, experimental, hybrid forms, and more. Climate change is so massive and sometimes so ineffable that we need all of the tools of narrative to adequately understand it and share stories and experiences about it.
The contest will once again be judged by science fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson, award-winning author of many foundational works in climate fiction, along with other climate fiction experts from ASU.
The winning story will receive a $1,000 prize. Nine finalists will receive $50 each. The winner and finalists will be published in an online anthology, which will be free to download, read, and share.
POSTED 29/11/17
CLOSING
28/02/18
