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Welcome to the Flash 500 Competition! When it comes to prizes, it often seems as though flash fiction is the poor relation of writing competitions. The time seems right to ...

Welcome to our new Humour Verse Competition! We have noticed a scarcity of humour verse competitions with decent prize money, even though there are huge numbers of people who like ...

Aged 19+ Riddle us with your most brilliant writing. Rattle us with great characters and unexpected verbs. Win big prestige, and a little prize money, too! The winning story will ...

ENTRY: Submit an original (written by entrant), fiction short story of no more than 2,500 words, typed, double-spaced, and page numbered on 8-1/2-x-11 paper. Entries must be unpublished and may ...

Western theme 3,500 words maximum Typed Double-spaced Must involve a cowboy or two - or other western character(s) Fiction only This year the story MUST BE a SUSPENSE, MYSTERY, THRILLER, ...

Link: Deadline: 1st September 2011

Looks good. Here are the basics: Guidelines: Submissions of a previously unpublished original (not a translation) short story in English must be approximately 5,000 to 15,000 words of high literary ...

$10 entry fee - Canada only. ~ "Friends of Dutton-Dunwich" are accepting short stories, Canadian Fiction, in English, neatly typed, in an easy to read font 12pt, double spaced, on ...

Bot are open to everyone. Contests and Prizes (US $) Poetry Contest: on any theme, maximum 30 lines, typed or written, single or double spacing. First Place... $250.00 Second Place... ...

I agree with Rosey. Long sentences give your writing a somewhat formal tone, which is in complete contrast to the contractions you've got going on - "they'd"; "wasn't". The problem ...

*Moved to Writer's Corner*

For speaking, definitely. Nobody speaks in the Queen's English, except maybe the Queen. Otherwise it just comes off as forced - but whatever you do it really needs to be ...

And interview flaws. Interview flaws are bad. Those are the ones where you make a character "too good" at something, like too picky, too much of a perfectionist, too kind-hearted, ...

Well, the CERN website may be of help. Under the research section, they have tonnes of information - I haven't found anything specific, but have a good rummage and you ...

Thanks. I don't care how old i am I just want my book published. -mackenzie That can be the problem - take a step back. You're too interested in getting ...