Short Story Competition
THE PRIZE
The Fine Line’s inaugural short story competition is now open for entries. Whatever your taste, style or inspiration, submit your tale and you could win £200 ($320/€230) and publication in The Fine Line Short Story Collection. A percentage of all entry fees goes to charity so you’ll be doing good while getting your work out there.
Email your story with contact details and the name of the charity, from those below, to which you would like the donation to be made to editorial.consultancy@gmail.com. Click here to add your competition entry to your cart, and proceed to checkout.
THE RULES
The competition is open to anyone. Only employees of The Fine Line or The Fine Line Editorial Consultancy may not enter.
Maximum word count for each entry is 5000 words. There is no minimum word count.
Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published on any website or public online forum, broadcast nor winning or placed in any other competition.
The entry fee is £5 ($8/€6) per story. Payment is made online via credit/debit card or PayPal. Entries will not be read until payment has been received.
£1 of every entry fee will be donated to charity. Entrants should specify the charity to which they wish the donation to be made in the email accompanying their entry: Irving House, Cricket for Change, or Home-Start Worldwide.
Entries should be sent as email attachments to editorial.consultancy@gmail.com.
Entrants may submit as many stories as they wish.
Worldwide copyright of each entry remains with the author, but The Fine Line will have the unrestricted right to publish the winning and runner-up stories, in the short story anthology and any relevant promotional material.
First prize is £200 plus publication in The Fine Line short story anthology. Twelve runners-up will also be published in the anthology.
The judges’ decision is final and no individual correspondence can be entered into.
The deadline for entries is the 31st of May, 2011.
Winners will be notified by the 30th of June, 2011.