SHORT STORY COMPETITIONS
- Entry Fees: £3 per story
First Prize:
☛ "WINNER TAKES ALL" ☚
(Example: 250 entrants x £3 = prize money £750)
- or equivalent in your currency -All winning stories, and commended entries, published in WORDS Magazine
and in an online anthologies that will be produced after each competition.
1. Entry is open to all writers throughout the world.
2. Work should be typed, in double spacing, on A4 paper. E-mailed entries, as attachments, are acceptable providing the above format is followed.
3. Entries must be the writer's own work, not currently entered into any other competition and should not exceed 2000 words.
4. Author's name (or nom-de-plume) together with an approximate word count, must appear on the cover sheet. Manuscripts cannot be returned so we advise you to keep a copy for your records.
5. The winners will be notified by post and announced in the next available issue of WORDS Magazine and on this website. Unsuccessful entries may be submitted to other publications two months after the closing date.
6. Entries should reach us on or before the closing date advertised.
7. Authors may submit as many entries as they wish.
8. All entries, whether successful or not, will be considered for publication in either a future issue of Words Magazine, in the library pages of this website or in a compilation of stories sold as an ebook. In all instances the authors will be contacted prior to any such publication.
9. Email entries should be sent as single files and ideally saved as either .doc or .txt files.
Postal entries should be sent to:
WORDS, PO Box 13574, London W9 3FX