Members Only Contests

This is a flash fiction competition with a difference! Post a 250 word Christmas themed story direct to the contest web page and watch it gain votes and comments from your friends, family and other writers.

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If the pounds are piling on during the festivities here’s your chance to turn them to a positive use! Our latest Arena competition calls for a flash fiction story featuring someone who reaps unexpected consequences through attempting to lose weight!

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We’ve all got them so no excuse for lack of source material, but what do you or your protagonist see through yours? A homeless person looking longingly INTO a dining room window? Perhaps a bedridden old lady looking OUT onto her beloved, but now neglected garden? Or maybe your window is a metaphysical or allegorical window presenting life changing views of other dimensions?

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Don’t let Dan Brown’s book influence your ideas when it comes to our latest Arena competition! With Hallow’een just around the corner, we’re looking for hair-raising poems featuring either Angels and or those other chappies!

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Calling all fiction writers! Can you write a spooky tale featuring a festive phantom? If so register now for the Christmas Chillers short story competition.

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Travel, they say, broadens the mind, but how and whose mind? Our latest Arena competition is looking for a piece of flash fiction featuring a traveller with very little luggage!

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What a contest! All the 100 places were snapped up shortly before the closing date which was somewhat surprising as Novel Beginnings really made you work hard. As well as a 2,500 word chapter, entrants also had to submit a well thought out, 500 word synopsis. We didn’t expect quite so many people to rise to the challenge! The fact that you did certainly gave our judge and shortlisters something to think about which meant we’re a little late getting out the results as we wanted to make sure every entry received proper consideration.

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Well maybe the weather, at the moment, isn’t exactly the epitome of our warmer months, but why should that stop us from writing about it? For our latest Arena competition we want you to wax lyrical about summer. How is it for you? Long, halcyon days swinging in a hammock or soggy bar-be-ques, ravenous midges and shivery evenings?

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Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Guy Fawks and his cronies had succeeded in blowing up the Houses of Parliament? Or if it was William that got one in the eye instead of Harold?

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Shape poems are great fun to do and call for an extra bit of ingenuity so for our latest Arena contest we want you to write a poem in the shape of a right angle triangle!

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Crystal balls at the ready! Writelink’s Arena competition wants you to put your protagonist into the not too distance future and give us a glimpse of the world through their eyes.

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Sarah James almost re-wrote the history of our open poetry competition by entering three poems and taking First and Third places and Highly Commended with the third! Only the ever consistent Jay Smedley prevented Sarah from making a clean sweep!

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