Romantic Fiction Competition 1st Prize: £300 2nd Prize: £200 3rd Prize: £100 Closing date: 10th September 2011 Entry fee: £4.00 Entangled in his embrace, the world seemed softer, warm and altogether more pleasurable. She longed for this moment to last, to stay cocooned in pure happiness forever. A shiver of trepidation ran down her spine and fought it off in vain, snuggling closer to his warmth, inhaling his intoxicating scent. Why did life...

Trigger:  www.statushat.org/trigger 2nd Edition: The Extremes Call for Submissions Lately, we at Trigger have been thinking a lot about the role of subject matter in art. There are, it seems to us, two specific extremes of subject matter in fiction, poetry, and visual art. Some art focuses directly on moments of change or crisis, on the big moments in the lives of characters, creators, or subjects. Births, deaths, disease, divorce, marriage,...