Win a Holiday in Greece with your Short Story!

After last years success Limnisa is organizing a second short story competition. The top two winning entrants can choose between a FREE PLACE at our two week creative writing seminar in Greece, OR a one week FREE STAY in a Holiday Seaview Apartment in Greece, just a three minute walk from the beach.

We hope this will inspire the writers out there to pick up their pens!

Limnisa is looking for short stories, up to 3000 words on any subject. Entrance fee is £5.-

For more details on the competition or the writing seminars go to: www.limnisa.com

Unbound Press Poetry Competition

Closes 31 October 2010

Poem: 40 lines max

Fee: £3

Prizes: £30; £15

Details: for info see www.unboundpress.co.uk. Email entries only to upsubmissions@googlemail.com All Winners and Runners-up will be published in the Unbound Press Journal and will each receive a free copy of the journal.

We are looking for short story entries of no more than 1000 words and imaginative illustrations on the given titles below:

* Sport\\\'s Day Fiasco
* Ruddy, Sam and Ondine
* The Intergalactic War
* Rage
* The Magic Pot.

The stories must be original and previously unpublished.  The deadline for entries is midnight on Sunday 31 October 2010.  All the winning stories and drawings will be published in the Children\\\'s Story Book in 2011.

The entry fee is £5 per story or illustration and you can enter as many times as you like along with the correct entry fee.  Submissions and payment are accepted online as well as by post.  School, colleges and youth clubs can submit up to 20 stories for just £60.

The prizes are £150 for the winners in each of the four age categories, £75 and £50 plus £200 worth of books goes to the school that submits the best overall entries.

The competitions are open to children from the ages of 7 to 18 years old.  For more information please check out the rules on our website.  If you have any questions then please do get in touch.

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Flash 500 is a quarterly open-themed competition with closing dates of 31st March, 30th June, 30th September and 31st December. The results will be announced within six weeks of each closing date and the three winning entries each quarter will be published on the competition website. The judge changes each quarter, details on the judge's page at: www.flash500.com

Entry fee: £5 for one story, £8 for two stories

Optional critiques: £10 per story

Prizes are awarded as follows:

First: £250 plus publication in Words with JAM

Second: £100

Third: £50

Highly commended: A copy of The Writer's ABC Checklist

Competition website: www.flash500.com