The deadline for the prestigious Bridport competitions looms ever closer. I entered last year to a big fat nothing. Not sure I'll enter this year.
Deadline: 30 June 2009
Prizes: £5,000, £1,000, £500, 10 x £50
Short Story
Judge: Ali Smith
Looking for: A beginning, a middle and an end not necessarily in that order. Nothing spare, a voice you can hear after you've read the story.
Fee: £7 per story
Cue lots of stories structured like Pulp Fiction, if at all.
Poetry
Judge: Jackie Kay (love her stuff)
Looking for: authentic voices. Imagery which might be mundane but still startles. Lines which hook and draw the memory.
Up to 42 lines.
Fee: £6
You can enter online.
six quid per pome? Ouch... Maybe my entry will be something along the lines of:
ReplyDeleteRecession, how I love thee...