Memoirs & Journalism Competition 2011
£100 first prize, £50 second prize,
up to 10 x £10 runner-up prizes
There are two categories for this competition. You can tell a story from your own or your family's experience, or write an opinion or journalistic piece about a current event or issue in the news that interests you.
Rules and Conditions
- The competition is open to anyone over 16.
- The first prize is £100. The best entries will be published on the website. up to 10 will be included, depending on length and quality.
- Closing date August 30th2011 Winners will be notified in October.
- Entry fee £5 per article. Payment in pounds sterling. POs or cheques payable to Kay Green, or use the Paypal buttons below.
- Articles must be the work of the entrant, previously unpublished, and not simultaneously entered for other competitions. Maximum length 2000 words.
- Please mark your entry EPM if it is a personal or family memoir or EPJ if it is about a current event or issue.
- Entries can be on any topic or event anywhere in the world, and may be either reportage or opinion pieces but they must not be fictional. Entrants must ensure that information in the articles is true as far as they can ascertain, and that their work contains nothing which is illegal, defamatory, obscene or libellous.
- The judges’ decision is final. No discussion will be entered into.
- Copyright remains with the author although Earlyworks Press reserves the right to publish winning entries on the website.
- Email entries accepted. Please pay your fee using the Paypal buttons below then email the works to us, along with your Paypal transaction number. Please post them in the body of an email. We will not open attachments if we don't know the recipient.
- Alternatively, send paper copy to Earlyworks Press, Creative Media Centre, 45 Robertson Street, Hastings Sussex TN34 1HL along with a cheque for your entry fee.
- Paper copy must be titled and typed/clearly written on one side of A4 paper.
- Each entry must have a cover-sheet attached, marked EM2011, giving title(s) of article(s), author’s name, address, and/or telephone number/email address. Please say where you heard about this competition.
- Entries are not returnable and cannot be acknowledged without SAE marked for that purpose.
- Submission of work will be taken as acceptance of rules and conditions.
Email entries
Please click here to email your entry.