Current Competitions:
(Click Here for previous competitions and results)(Download Competition Guidelines)
New Writing Workshop Competition - Closes Nov 30th 2010
New Write about Writing Competition - Closes Oct 31 2010
Memoir Competition - Closes 30th Nov 2010
Tiny Weeny Competition - Closes Oct 31 2010
Micro-Fiction Competition - Closes September 30th 2010
Postcard and Short Travel Writing Competition - Now Closed - results out in October - best pieces to be printed in the Magazine Issue 3.
Creative Writing Workshop Competition - Now Closed, click here for results. To be printed in the Autumn Leaf Writers' Magazine.
Write About Writing Competition - Now Closed, click here for results. To be printed in the Autumn Leaf Writers' Magazine.
Poetry Competition - now closed, judging in progress - we hope results out Sept/Oct
Nano Fiction Competition now closed - click here for results.
Click Here for previous competitions and results
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New Writing Workshop Competition
The Workshop:
This is an exercise in the use of different narrative points-of-view.
Write a short piece, prose or poetry, in which you describe the same event using two or three
different narrative point-of-views – first-person (‘I opened the door’), second-person (‘You
open the door’) or third-person/omniscient narrator (‘Mary opened the door’). You can write
it in any tense you choose and you’re welcome to attempt variants on these three conventions,
eg. first-person plural.
Try to consider how the descriptions of the event will differ according to your chosen narrative
voice – how an omniscient narrator can be privy to information that a first-person narrator
may not be aware of; how first-person narrative needs to inhabit a specific character and to
accurately reflect their voice, their actions and reactions; how third-person narrative can be
used to pass objective comments on events and characters; how the rare and difficult second person
perspective can be used to draw in the reader. Crucially, bear in mind that the same
event can seem vastly different from one point-of-view to the next.The Competition:
Send us a short poem (20 lines or fewer) or up to 300 words inspired by this writing exercise.
The winning entry will be published in the next edition of the Leaf Writers’ Magazine, and the winner will receive £75 and a free
copy of the magazine.
To enter: £3 per entry, 4 entries for £10.
You’re entitled to one free competition entry if you’ve bought the magazine.Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your details and a cheque. click here for postal address
Enter online: pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing. Please send your work as an attachment to contact@leafbooks.co.uk
For a single entry (£3.00):
For 4 entries (£10):
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New Write about Writing Competition
We invite you to send us up to 300 words on one of the following themes:
How I started writing
Why I write
How other authors influenced me
Advice to a new writer
My writing routine
Please state your chosen category on your entry form/in your email.
Prizes: The winning entries will be published in the third edition of the Leaf Writers’ Magazine. One winning entry will receive £75 and a free copy of the magazine. Further successful entrants may also be published in the magazine and will receive a free copy.
Entry Fee: £2.50 per submission,
5 submissions for £10.Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your details and a cheque. click here for postal address
Enter online: pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing. Please send your work as an attachment to contact@leafbooks.co.uk
For a single entry (£2.50):
For 5 entries (£10):
Closes 31 October 2010
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New Memoir Competition
Closes 30th Nov 2010
Send us an extract from your own life in 1,000 words or fewer. Your mini-memoir can be on any subject – childhood, war, travel writing, family, school, work, community projects, political activism, the story of your allotment or anything else you can think of that's happened to you in your life. It can be as dramatic or as low-key as you like: just make sure that it grabs our interest and that it stands alone as a narrative. The previous competition anthology Foresight with Hindsight is now available on this website to buy either as a hard copy or a downloadable pdf e-book, so if you want to see what really caught our attention last time then have a look at this publication.
Prizes : Winner will receive £150, a free copy of the anthology and a year’s subscription to the Leaf Writers’ Magazine (or a refund if you already subscribe). Runner-up will receive a free copy of the anthology and a full set of Leaf mini-books. All selected pieces will be published in the anthology and the winner and runner-ups will be published in the Leaf Writers’ Magazine.
Entry Fee : £4 per submission, 3 submissions for £10.
Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your details and a cheque. click here for postal address
Enter online: pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing. Please send your work as an attachment to contact@leafbooks.co.uk
For a single entry (£4)
For 3 Entries (£10)
Closes 30th Nov 2010
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New Tiny Weeny Writing and Drawing Competition
Closing Oct 31 2010
Back by popular demand (we enjoyed it anyway) the tiniest of our competitions. We invite you to send us EITHER writing that is no longer than 140 characters, which includes letters, spaces and punctuation, (not the title but please don’t make those more than 30 characters) OR a piece of black and white art no bigger than half a post card. Obviously you can send both, but as separate entries.
You can use any form - a petit poem, a short short short story, a playlet, your best ever tweet, anything you like. For the drawings please can we have black and white and if you send them online as a jpeg or a gif.
Prizes: The best of the pieces will be published in the Leaf Writers’ Magazine and the very best single piece will win £75.00 and a free years subscription to the Magazine.
Last time the winners went up on the Showcase site – have a look at these great entries for ideas and inspiration.
Entry Fees: £ 2 per submission, 6 pieces for £10. If you have one of our £3 off entry vouchers from your magazine then in a moment of pure craziness we’re giving you 2 entries for that.
Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your details and a cheque. click here for postal address
Enter online: pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing. Please send your work as an attachment to contact@leafbooks.co.uk
For a single entry (£2):
For 6 entries (£10):
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Micro-Fiction Competition
Closing date: September 30th 2010
Leaf Books invites you to submit micro-fiction (max 300 words) on any subject imaginable.
Winning and outstanding entries will be published in the Leaf Writers’ Magazine. These, and further commended entries, will also be published in an anthology.
First prize: Winner receives £150 and a free copy of the Leaf Writers’ Magazine and the anthology.
One runner up will receive a free copy of the magazine/anthology.
Further successful entrants published in the magazine will get a free copy, and commended
authors for the anthology will be able to pre-order the book at a reduced rate.
To enter: £3 per entry, 4 entries for £10Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your details and a cheque. click here for postal address
Enter online: pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing. Please send your work as an attachment to contact@leafbooks.co.uk
For a single entry (£3.00):
For 4 entries (£10):
