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Information about competitions that might be of interest to those teaching children or young people appears in the list below. Many are offered by our partner organisations and most are free to enter. If you know of any competitions that you think may be of interest to other CLN members please send the information to mcbfcln@mmu.ac.uk.
LIST OF COMPETITIONS
MMU Competitions
- The Manchester Poetry Prize 2012 – closing date: Friday 31st August 2012
- All Write! 2013 Competition – closing date Monday July 29th 2013
- Postcards from the past
Other Competitions
- Best of Manchester Poets Competition – closing date Friday 17th August 2012
- Marple International Writing Competition – closing date 2nd September 2012
- Mslexia Childrens Novel Competition – closing date 10th September 2012
- The Short Story competition – closing date 15th September 2012
- Poetry Society national Poetry Competition – closing date 31st October 2012
- Booktrust’s List of Competitions
Free and open to: 9-12 year olds (Years 5,6,7)
The Manchester Children’s Book Festival invites young writers to send in their creative writing for this free-to-enter competition. There is no set theme and pupils are encouraged to write in any genre. If you are a secondary school running a transition project with feeder primaries let us know – we welcome group entries and are happy to publish work produced by other projects.
The best entries will be illustrated and published in All Write 2013 and copies of the anthology will be presented to winning pupils at a Manchester Literature Festival event in October.
Please submit entries by email if possible but we do accept postal entries, too.
All entries must be also include the following information:
All Write competition
2013,
Metropolitan University
Room 123, Geoffrey Manton building
Rosamond Street West
Manchester M15 6LL
If you are a school wishing to publicise the competition please email allwrite@mmu.ac.uk and we will send out printed materials.
In partnership with Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Manchester Creative Learning Network, and with support from the Midland Hotel, this October we will be launching a history-inspired creative writing competition, Postcards From The Past. We invite people of all ages to travel back in time and write an imaginative postcard from the point of view of a real or fictional character.
Puppywolf are requesting poetry submissions for the Best of Manchester Poets.
They are accepting up to two submissions from anybody who calls themselves a (Greater) Manchester poet and while we leave it up to individuals to decide if they qualify, we’ve provided some guidance here.
This includes students attending Greater Manchester writing schools, even if they don’t live in Greater Manchester.
There’s no theme or style of poetry we’re looking for, and they don’t ask for exclusivity before or after publication.
If you call it a poem, they’re interested in looking at it.
The anthology will be published in December this year and will once again be launched in a blockbuster event celebrating Manchester poetry.
More information about the Best of Manchester Poets project can be found here.
To submit work, individuals should visit the following website.
Is pleased to announce that this year it is running an Open Poetry competition , ending on the 2nd of September 2012
Overseas entries are already being received, and UK entry forms can be obtained by writing to :-
Marple Writing Competition, PO Box 143, Marple (LDO), Stockport, SK6 9AD, and send a SAE,
or by downloading an application from its website
Our writing competitions were started to encourage all writers, but in particular new writers – and this poetry competition is somewhat unique, because in addition to 3 main cash prizes, there is a special prize for the winner of the best collection of poems—minimum 7 entries, who will have a booklet of up to 40 of their poems professionally produced.
Last years winner in this category was Rosie Garland, and her compilation “Those who wait” is both a powerful and moving selection of poems.
Entry fees are :
Total prize fund is £175.
The judge is prize winning author and poet Joyce Reed G.N.S.M.
Mslexia Childrens Novel Competition – closing date 10th September 2012
Prize: £5,000
Judging Panel:
The competition is open to children’s novels in any genre by previously unpublished women novelists, but it must be for children who are able to read for themselves or for young adults.
Crossover fiction (i.e. that aimed at children and adults) is eligible. Nonfiction, and fiction intended for adults is not eligible. To qualify as a novel, your book must total at least 30,000 words.
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The short Story competition – closing date 15th Septemper 2012
New or established writers. Stories will be published on the website.
First Prize £300.
Word limit : 1,000-5,000 words
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The top-three winning poems will be published in Poetry Review. The winner is also invited to read at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in July 2013. Up to 150 entrants will also be offered a discount on selected activities from the Poetry School. Winning and commended poems will be published on the Poetry Society website when the competition prizes are announced in spring 2013.
Judges
The judges of the 2012 National Poetry Competition are: Vicki Feaver, W.N. Herbert and Nick Laird. The National Poetry Competition is an award for individual poems that are previously unpublished. Each entry remains anonymous throughout the judging process.
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