Competition Information updated list

Group/Organisation	Cost	Prize	Closing Date
Thynks Publications (short stories and poems)  QUARTERLY www.thynkspublications.co.uk	WEB	PAGE	Jan Feb Mar Apr 2013
Pighog press www.pighog.co.uk	Pamphlet printed + 100 copies	10 poems of max 30 lines Cost £15 entry fee	31st Jan 2013
Kent and Sussex open poetry Competition www.kentandsussexpoetry.com	£5 for 1 £4 if 3 or more	£1000 £300 £100 £50 x 4	31st Jan 2013
Slipstream Poets www.slipstream-poets.co.uk	£3 per poem £10 for 4 £12 for 6	£250 £100 £75 £10 x2	31st Jan 2013
Open Poetry Competition www.kentandsussexpoetry.com	£5 per poem or over 4poems £4 each	£1,000 = 1 £300    = 2 £100    = 3 4 x £50	31st Jan 2013
NAWG Open Poetry Competition www.nawg.co.uk	£5	£250 £100 £50	31st Jan 2013
Prole Laureate Poetry www.prolebooks.co.uk	£3 1st poem £2.50 for 2nd	£130. + pblctn £30= 2runner ups	14th Feb 2013
Luman Camden Poetry Comp www.wardwoodpublishing.co.uk	£2.50 or 10 for £6	10 Bound copies of small poetry collection	14th Feb 2013
Grace Dieu Writers' Circle www.gracedieuwriterscircle.co.uk	£4 one poem or £12 for 4 poems, £3 for additional entry over four	1st prize £500; 2nd Prize: £200; 3rd Prize: £100; 4th Prize: £75; 5th Prize: £50	28th Feb 2013
Grace Dieu writers circle comp www.gracedieuwriterscircle.co.uk	£4 £12 for 4	£500 £200 £100 £75 £50	29th Feb 2013
Lightship First Poetry Book Competition www.lightshippublishing.co.uk	£20 for first 20 pages of a 50 poem collection	£1,000 and publication of 50 poems	31st March 2013
Fish Poetry Competition www.fishpublishing.com	£14 for 1 £8 subsequent 300 words	£1,000	31st March 2013
Words with Jam Humour poetry competition www.flash500.com	£3 for 1 £2.50 subsequent poems	£150 £100 £50	Quarterly 31st Mar 2013
Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) www.c-r-y.org.uk	£5 for 3 poems	£1,000 £700 £300	30th Apr 2013
Ware Poets Competition Special prize for the best sonnet www.poetrypf.co.uk/images/compware13.pdf	£4 £12 for 4	£600 £100 £250	30th Apr 2013
Templar Poetry www.templarpoetry.co.uk	£20 for 18 – 24 pages	£250 advance + launch of short collection	7th May 2013
Poetry Space – FULL PUBLISHING SCHEDULE www.poetryspace.co.uk	THAT	NO SUBMISSION	2014

 

 

Group/Organisation	Cost	Prize	Closing Date
Grace Dieu Writers' Circle www.gracedieuwriterscircle.co.uk 2,000 word story.	£5 one story £3 for additional entries	1st prize £500; 2nd Prize: £200; 3rd Prize: £100; 4th Prize: £75; 5th Prize: £50	28th Feb 2013
Flash 500 www.flash500.com	£5 for 1 £8 for 2	1st prize £300 2nd prize  £100 3rd prize £50	31st March 2013 QUARTERLY
Lightship short memoir Competition www.lightshippublishing.co.uk	£12 5,000 words	£1,000	1st May 2013
Lightship One Page Story Competition www.lightshippublishing.co.uk	£8 300 words	£250	31st March 2013
Lightship First Act Competition www.lightshippublishing.co.uk	£18 6,000 words	Play  performed in London	31st May 2013
Lightship Short Story competition www.lightshippublishing.co.uk	£12 5,000 words	£1,000	30th June 2013
Fish Publishing  Memoir www.fishpublishing.com	£16 4,000 words	£1,000	31st Jan 2013
Fish Publishing Flash Fiction www.fishpublishing.com	£14 for 1 £8 other 300 words	£1,000	28th Feb 2013
Bath Short Story Award www.bathshortstoryaward.co.uk	£5 or 2,200 words	£500 £100 £50	30th March 2013
Blue Thumbnail Short Story Competition   www.bluethumbnail.com	£6  for 3,000 words	Retreat to Greece!	30th March 2013
Bristol Short Story Competition www.bristolprize.co.uk	£8 for 4,000 words	£1,000 £700 £400 17 x£100	30th April 2013
www.prizemagic.co.uk Look on Website	LOTS OF	COMPS	INFO
Dark Tales www.literaturewales.org www.darktales.co.uk	£3 up to 5000 words	£100 £50 £25	Last day of every month
Exeters Short Story competition www.exeterwriters.org.uk	£5 for 3,000 words	£500 £250 £100	31st March 2013
Five Stop Stories – Monthly Competition www.fivestopstory.com	1 entry: £4 2 entries: £7 3 entries: £8 for 1,000 -3,000 words	£50	Last day of each month.
Flash 500 www.flash500.com	£5 for 1 story £8 for two For 500 words	£300	Quarterly 1st Mar 2013.
Home-Start Bridgwater Short Story Prize 2013 all proceeds go to charity. www.homestart-bridgwater.org.uk	£7for 2,200 words	£500 £200 £100	21st Jan 2013
Leaf Books tiny weeny story competitions www.leafbook.co.uk	£2 for 1 £10 for 6 Max 200 words	£100	28th Feb 2013
*Little House Short Story Competition www.nawe.co.uk	£5 for 2,000 words	£100	31st Dec 2012
Moth Short Story Prize www.themothmagazine.com	€8	€1,000	31st March 2013
Multi-Story www.multi-story.co.uk
Playing Bingo Short Story Competition Theme “Bingo” www.playingbingo.co.uk	Free 1,500 - 3000 words	£300 £100 £50 x2	28th Feb 2013
Writer's Worldwide Prize Theme “Travel” www.writersworldwideprize.com	£5 for 5,000 words	£1000	1st May 2013
www.thedock.info	Lots of	competition	info
I.B.P. Scribble competitions www.parkpublications.co.uk Lots of competitions.  Ongoing.  Look at the details on the web page under competitions			ongoing

 

 

First Meeting 2013

Will be on Wednesday January 9th at 11am at our usual location (See profile)

Happy New Year to everyone.

REACH OUT TORREVIEJA

The Reach Out Charity, currently supporting  200 families in the Torrevieja area, are very appreciative of the donation The Torrevieja Writers were able to make to them last week and ask for continued support in various ways over the coming months.  

At present the charity is based in C. Bella Antonia in town and has a drop-in coffee shop where people can get a hot cuppa along with help and advice from the many international volunteers on hand. The Reach Out Centre Manager, Sandra Stephens said, in a recent article in The Leader newspaper; "Many of these people were drawn to Spain in the boom times where there were many well-paid jobs. But then the recession hit and they suddenly found themselves without jobs."

The centre also provides food parcels for families - small boxes with a few of the essentials of life, such as dried, tinned or preserved foods, rice, pasta or flour, cooking oil, UHT milk, processed cheese, lentils, beans and chick peas and tinned meats or fish. Also provided are baby foods, nappies and other toiletries and toilet rolls, and these items are particularly needed at present.

The charity is planning a move to larger premises in the near future at which time they will open a workshop to repair and renew old, donated furniture to be sold to help finance the charity.

For the full story and contact details see: http://www.theleader.info/article/34768/reach-out-torrevieja/ 

From an email

Considering our attempts at writing erotica, I thought it would be a good idea to post this on our Blog. A friend sent it to me and it made me laugh out Loud - a Lot.  I hope you enjoy it.  I was also entertained by reviews done by men on Veet O hair removal cream - if you go amazon dot com and look at the reviews on this cream, you will find that there are some very descriptive accounts experienced.  Not that you would call erotic, but very funny.

The novel "Fifty Shades Of Grey" has seduced women - and baffled blokes.
Now a spoof, Fifty Sheds Of Grey, offers a treat for the men. The book has author Colin Grey recounting his love encounters at the bottom of the garden. Here are some extracts...
 
Fifty Sheds Of Grey
 
We tried various positions - round the back, on the side, up against a
wall...
but in the end we came to the conclusion the bottom of the garden was the only place for a good shed.
 
She stood before me, trembling in my shed.
"I'm yours for the night," she gasped, "You can do whatever you want with me."
So I took her to McDonalds.
 
She knelt before me on the shed floor and tugged gently at first, then
harder until finally it came.
I moaned with pleasure. Now for the other boot.
 
Ever since she read THAT book, I've had to buy all kinds of ropes, chains and shackles.
She still manages to get into the shed, though.
 
"Put on this rubber suit and mask," I instructed, calmly.
"Mmmm, kinky!" she purred.
"Yes," I said, "You can't be too careful with all that asbestos in the shed roof."
 
"I'm a very naughty girl," she said, biting her lip. "I need to be
punished."  So I invited my mum to stay for the weekend.
 
"Harder!" she cried, gripping the workbench tightly. "Harder!"
"Okay," I said. "What's the gross national product of Nicaragua?"
 
I lay back exhausted, gazing happily out of the shed window.
Despite my concerns about my inexperience, my rhubarb had come up a treat.
 
"Are you sure you can take the pain?" she demanded, brandishing stilettos.
"I think so," I gulped. "Here we go, then," she said, and showed me the
receipt.
 
"Hurt me!" she begged, raising her skirt as she bent over my workbench.
"Very well," I replied. "You've got fat ankles and no dress sense."
 
"Are you sure you want this?" I asked. "When I'm done, you won't be able to sit down for weeks."
She nodded.
"Okay," I said, putting the three-piece suite on eBay.
 
"Punish me!" she cried. "Make me suffer like only a real man can!"
"Very well," I replied, leaving the toilet seat up.
 
"Pleasure and pain can be experienced simultaneously," she said, gently
massaging my back as we listened to her Coldplay CD
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

OPEN  MIC

 

 

 

 

 

MONDAY 3RD DECEMBER

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHADWICKS BAR VILLAMARTIN

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.30 P.M.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prose: Poems: Song or just for a sit down and a drink