Competitions for Writers.


Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize. Closes: 31 st August 2008

 A question will be posed around the subject of Benjamin Franklin's relevance in our time. 1000 to 1500 words are required and there are two entry groups.

Young Writers Prize: £500
Professional Writers Prize: £1000.

Young writers will be judged by Professional writers and vice versa. More information is available here:

www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org


Manga Jiman 150 Competition. Closes: 26th September 2008

This competition is run by the Embassy of Japan and is open to anyone of 14 years old, or above.

First prize is a return ticket for two to Japan.

Second prize is a Toshiba Laptop, and third prize is a Ricoh Digital Camera.

 Runners up will receive some Manga publications and various gift vouchers.

 More information is available here:

www.japan.go.jp/manga.html 



 Park Publications.

 This company produces two quarterly magazines of short stories and they run open writing competitions every year.

There are cash prizes and publication for each winner.
More information here.

www.parkpublications.co.uk


Moon Town Cafe

Poetry website runs free to enter poetry contests with cash prizes.
 For information.

Moontown Cafe


There are many more writing competitions on and off the internet. If you know of any, particularly those where no fee is charged for entry, please let us know by using the contact form.