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Hi everyone. Our next meeting will be this Tuesday, 2nd May. Hope to see you all there.
Competitions
This was posted on one of my loops and I thought some of you might find it interesting.
Penny Jordan
The Fish-Knife Award > Opens: 1 May 2006 > Closes: 17September 2006 > Judges: TBC > > Fish Publishing, in conjunction with the Crime Writers' Association are > introducing The Fish-Knife Award, the Short Crime-fiction Award 2006. > This competition offers a top prize of €1,500 plus an engraved silver > Fish-knife, and publication as the title story in the Fish-Knife > Anthology 2007. Nine runners up will receive an award of €100 and will > also be published in the anthology. > > This Award is all about crime. From high treason to petty larceny, what > we are looking for is high quality writing with a crime based theme up > to a maximum of around 5,000 words. Also, and for the first time, this > is an On-line only competition. > > Full details of this competition can be found at The Fish-Knife Award. > > > > Short Histories II and the Historical One Page Prize > Opens: 1 May 2006 > Closes: 17 September 2006 > Judges: TBC > > Given the success of last years inaugural Historical Short Fiction Award > and the very well received Short Histories Anthology' All the King's > Men, Fish Publishing, once again in conjunction with the Historical > Novel Society, are proud to introduce Short Histories II,. the Short > Historical Fiction Award 2006, This competition offers a top prize of > €1,500 and publication as the title story in the Short Histories > Anthology 2007. Nine runners up will receive an award of €100 and will > also be published in the anthology. > > At the same time, and as part of the same Anthology, Fish are > introducing the Historical One Page Prize, for historical short fiction > gems that only take up one page of the anthology. This part of the > competition offers a first prize of €1,000 and the winning very short > story and four runners-up (who will each receive a €100 prize) will also > appear in the Short Histories Anthology 2007. > > These Awards are of course all about history. From Egyptian Pharoahs to > English Knights, from Byzantium to Bay of Pigs, what we are looking for > is high quality writing with a historical theme up to a maximum of > around 5,000 words. Also, for the first time, these are On-line only > competitions. > > Full details of both these competitions can be found at Historical Short > Fiction Prize 2006. > > > > > The best short stories, writing contests & writing competitions > Fish Publishing Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork Ireland > t: 027 55645 e: info@fishpublishing.com > > www.fishpublishing.com >
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