Creative Writing Ink Short Story Competition and a Chance to Win £1,000
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Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
Age
- No specific age required
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity FieldForeign Languages and Literature, Music, Art and Graphic Design
Fees£12.00
Needed documentsSample of your work
Opportunity description
Creative Writing Ink is pleased to announces this year year edition of short story competition2025. It is open participation for entries of any theme or genre. You can enter any number of short stories and will have a chance to win a group of valuable prizes.
Benefits
If you win this competition, you will have:
- First prize:
- £1,000
- An online creative writing course with Creative Writing Ink.
- Publication on the website.
- Two runners-up: £200 each.
Please note:
- From the Entries submitted, the judges will draw up a longlist of up to twenty (20) Entries.
- The judges will then reduce this to a shortlist of three (3) outstanding Entries.
- The prize money will be transferred to the bank account of the winning Entrant and runners-up Entrants only.
Eligibility criteria
You should follow the following criteria:
- The Competition is open to writers across the globe, writing in the English language, aged 16 years or over at the time of submission.
- Entries can be on any theme or genre.
- Arial or Times New Roman, 12pt, black, and double-spaced.
- No illustrations.
- Save as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx). We also accept file types .rtf, .pdf, with the short story title as the file name. Please do not include the author’s name in the file name or it will be disqualified.
- The Entry must not contain more than 3000 words.
- Entries must be submitted by the author. Entries must be entirely the author’s own work.
- The author may submit more than one short story, as long as the entry fee accompanies each individual Entry.
- Entries must not have been published, self-published, published on any website, blog, or online forum, broadcast, or have won or been placed.
- Entries will only be accepted through Submittable.
- All authors are strictly required to obtain the prior approval of any third party who holds any rights in their story before submitting an Entry.
- The Competition is not open to employees, tutors, or editors of Creative Writing Ink, any of its associated, affiliated, or subsidiary companies, the administrators, or anyone connected with the Competition or their direct family members.
Please note: Entry Fee £12.00 GBP.
About Creative Writing Ink:
Creative Writing Ink have developed a series of online creative writing courses where you can improve your writing skills through one-to-one exercises, notes and critique.
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