Is a mystery box-shaped? Could you write one?
Margery Allingham was an English crime writer best known for her detective stories featuring Albert Campion a sleuth who appears to be an upper class silly ass but in reality … Continue reading
Wanted: a wine drinker who can write
Pavilion Books, in association with The Circle of Wine Writers, run an annual award to help develop promising new wine writers. To enter you have to write 1500 on any … Continue reading
Free to enter Harper’s Bazaar UK Short Story Competition
The prize for this competition is pretty special as befits a magazine of Harper’s Bazaar glossy snazziness. The winning entry will appear in the May 2014 issue and the author … Continue reading
Not so much a writing competition more of a very long job application
This is a writing competition with a unique prize – The Jim Henson company are searching for an author for a new novel set in the world of The Dark … Continue reading
Delve into the dark underbelly of the Criminal World for this Scottish Short Story Competition
The Bloody Scotland short story competition wants stories on the theme ‘Bad Luck and Trouble. The winner will receive £1,000, a weekend pass to Bloody Scotland Festival 2013 and a … Continue reading
The Devil Reads Prada
Originally posted on Colleen Anderson:
This is a tarot card, but maybe the devil is saying, if you don’t wear Prada, you wear nothing. You know the movie, the one…
PRADA international short story competition
Prada – the high fashion luxury brand based in Milan – is running an international short story contest with Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore. The theme is wide: “views of … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 