Master's in Creative Writing

The 17 Winchester Writers’ Competitions are now open – the competitions include

• Writing for Children
• the Short Story
• the Shorter Short Story
• Poetry, Haiku
• Feature Articles
• Slim Volume
• Small Edition
• Crime Fiction
• Lifewriting
• Retirement
• The First Three Pages of the Novel
• Sustainability of the Environment
• the Young Writers Poetry Competition.

Entries must be original, unpublished work, written by one author, submitted using a pseudonym and must not have won an award in any previous competition. Self-published work is acceptable. Copyright remains with the author. The deadline is 24 May, 2013 for all competitions, except the Young Writers’ Poetry Competition, which has a deadline of 19 July.

Sixty-three prizes and five trophies will be awarded at the Writers’ Awards Ceremony on June 22nd, during the 33rd Winchester Writers’ Conference. In addition, the winner of each competition will be published in the Winchester Writers’ Conference anthology,_The Best of 2013_, published in the autumn. For the competition booklet, please follow this link:http://www.writersconference.co.uk/

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The language of focus in 2013 is Portuguese, the text to be translated is ‘O sucesso’ by Brazilian author Adriana Lisboa.

The judges are Ellie Steel (editor),  Naomi Alderman (author),  Margaret Jull Costa (translator) and  Ángel Gurría-Quintan (literary reviewer).

Open to all between the ages of 18 and 34, with no restriction on country of residence.

Deadline for entries is 2nd August 2013.

The short story and details on how to enter are available at www.youngtranslatorsprize.com

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First prize  £1,000, and the story published in Prospect online and in the RSL Review.

“In addition to this, there will be an opportunity to appear at an RSL event with established short story writers in autumn 2013 (the 2012 winner read at an event with short-story writer, novelist, and poet Jackie Kay).

This year’s judges are award-winning short story writers Adam Foulds, Jackie Kay and Helen Simpson.”

Closing date: 13 June 2013
Entry Fee:  £5
Entry form available on the website.

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