Friday 28 May 2010

Waterstone’s Perfectly Formed Short Story Competition

Missed this one earlier. From the lovely Diva in making Eimear Ryan.

2,000 words or less (shouldn't this be fewer? call yourself a bookshop)
Writers have to be "over 18 and haven’t had fiction professionally published before"

What does that mean exactly? What kind of fiction? A short story in a mag? That's paid?

Judged by: Waterstone’s booksellers; the Books Quarterly and Waterstones.com teams; Arvon Centre Director Claire Berliner; Editorial Director Will Atkins of Pan Macmillan and its top Macmillan New Writing discoveries, James McCreet, Ann Weisgarber and Brian McGilloway:

Prize: Publication in the October issue of Books Quarterly; a publisher’s lunch at Pan Macmillan; £200 worth of Pan Macmillan books; a week-long creative writing course at the Arvon Foundation.

Fee: Free
Deadline: 1 July 2010

See the website.

They say:

Entrants cannot have had fiction professionally published previously: specifically, ‘professionally published’ meaning in book or eBook format produced by a professional publisher and available to the general public for a charge. This definition excludes self-published books or stories published in newspapers or magazines, but includes anthologies.

4 comments:

Simon Kewin said...

Thanks for that - interesting! And, yep, it should be "fewer" ...

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the link! In the fine print I think "professionally published" excludes journals but includes anthologies. Yes, it is confusing.

Totalfeckineejit said...

Inhale. Exhale. Repeat after me. Enry fee , free, entry fee, free. And relax.
Anyone that HASNt been publo in any mag etc , me is thinking.So that is YOU -Hennessy short listed genius- OUT, and me, hopeless bollix never publo ,(fictionwise),IN.
Mwahahahahahahaha!

Emerging Writer said...

Open to anyone who hasn't had fiction published in a book, including anthologies...