Online Competition for Writers with £100 Award from Valerie Wood Prize

Valerie Wood is inviting writers all over the world to compete in the Val Wood Prize for Creative Writing 2020 titled “The Next Chapter”. The overall theme of this year’s competition has been chosen to feel good and Valerie Wood wants you to pack your entries with optimism, originality and creativity. The competition is open to anyone over 16 years of age. Entrants are free to write about whatever they wish as long as the theme is adhered to. Poetry will not be considered for the prize.

Competition Categories:-

• The International Open Prize

  • ‘The Next Chapter’ is open to anyone in the world. 

  • Your entry must be written in the form of an uplifting, feel-good short story with an overall word-count of 2000.

  • The winner of the Open Prize will receive £100 and their entry will be published on the website of Valerie Wood and shared via various social media outlets.

  • One runner up of the Open Prize will receive £50.

  • One highly commended entry to the Open Prize will receive £25.

• Yorkshire Prize

  • The inaugural Yorkshire Prize is open to residents of Yorkshire only.

  • The theme of the competition is The Yorkshire Coast, and is to be written in the form of a short story with an overall word-count of 2000. The winner of the Yorkshire Prize will receive £100 and their entry will be published on the website of Valerie Wood and shared via various social media outlets.

  • One runner up of the Yorkshire Prize will receive £50.

  • One highly commended entry to the YORKSHIRE PRIZE will receive £25.

  • Cash prizes are kindly donated by Estuary Words and The James Reckitt Library Trust.

  • Maximum of 1 entry per person for each PRIZE to the maximum word count of 2000 per entry.

  • The winning entries will also be made available on Hull Libraries’ BorrowBox ebook service.

About Valerie Wood Prize:-

Valerie Wood Prize is a prize named after the british writer Valerie Wood. Valerie Wood is the author of historical romance novels. She has written over 20 novels, all set in and around the city of Kingston upon Hull published by Transworld. This prize is dedicated for encouraging creative writers all over the world to come up with outstanding Literary Pieces.

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