Online Annual Hastings Book Festival Competition with the Opportunity to Win £250
By: Hastings Book FestivalLast update:
Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
Skillsمهارات العرض, مهارات الكتابة, مهارات الكتابة الابداعية
Age
- 18 - 60
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity FieldForeign Languages and Literature
Fees£8.25
Needed documentsSample of your work
Opportunity description
The Hastings Book Festival announces its annual online competition, offering winners the chance to win a £250 prize.
Benefits
- The first-place winner will receive £250.
- The second-place winner will receive £100.
- The third-place winner will receive £50.
- The winning entries will be published on the Hastings Book Festival website.
- The festival offers two prizes: one for short stories and one for poetry.
- The winners of the short stories and poetry prizes will receive a two-night independent writing trip to a Sussex-themed cottage! The Sussex prize winners will also receive mentoring from local writers V. J. Lee (short stories) and John McCullough (poetry).
Eligibility criteria
- Entrants to all competitions must be at least 18 years old at the time of entry.
- This competition is open to everyone, including writers not resident in the UK.
- There are no geographical restrictions on entries.
- The deadline for all entries is 10 pm on 30 June 2025. Late entries will not be judged.
- A full list of winners will be published on the website shortly before the Hastings Book Festival in September.
- By entering the competition, you confirm your agreement to all rules and conditions.
- Judging will be confidential, and all judges' decisions are final.
- The maximum word limit for the main Hastings Book Festival and Sussex Short Story Prize competitions is 2,500 words for a story.
- The maximum line limit for the main Hastings Book Festival and Sussex Poetry Prize competitions is 40 lines for a poem.
- The maximum word limit for the Founder's Award for Creative Non-Fiction is 1,000 words on the theme of "Reflections."
- Entries exceeding the allowed word count will not be judged.
- All entries must be written in English.
- Please remove all identifying information, such as name and email address, from your document and file name.
- Please format your document in Arial or Times New Roman, size 12. For fiction, please double-space.
- Entries will only be accepted in Microsoft Word-compatible .docx formats. Please do not upload PDFs, Apple Pages, or any other format, as entries in other formats will not be evaluated.
- Please double-check your document before uploading. No post-submission edits will be permitted.
- You may submit as many stories and poems as you wish. You can upload up to three stories and poems at a time (see entry fees here).
- Please place all entries in a single .docx file, with each entry starting on a new page with its own title.
- The entry fee for one entry is £8.25, for two entries: £15, and for three entries: £21. (The maximum number of entries for creative non-fiction works is one.)
- The maximum number of entries per transaction is three, but you can submit more by completing another entry form and repeating the process.
About Hastings Book Festival:
The Hastings Book Festival celebrates writers and lovers of the written word - a welcoming and open place for everyone. The first festival took place in August 2018, and has now become a regular and welcomed event on the local calendar. Every book, story and person is unique - very much like Hastings - and the festival will give you the time and freedom to pause, think, connect, and be inspired.
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