Welcome to the inaugural Travel Expert Writing Competition First of all this competition is Free To Enter and offers a cash prize to the author of the best entry (to be judged by the editors of TravelExpert.org.uk). We are seeking the best travel writers to send us exciting, original, even abstract travel writing in any form you choose: fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose. The only requirement is that your piece of writing presents a real...

Ten Best Stories Published Claire Kilroy is the judge. We are honoured that she will select the best ten stories for publication in the 2014 Fish Anthology. Clare Kilroy is the acclaimed author of 4 novels including All Summer, (recipient of the 2004 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was short-listed for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award), Tenderwire (shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel Award), All Names Have Been Changed...

Now open for entries. Deadline: 30th November 2013 Type:  Short Story (UK and International) Prizes: Winner:  £1000 Runner-up:  £100 4 x Highly Commended £25.00 All prize-winners will have their story published to the InkTears Readers and consideration for a short story collection/anthology publication.  Full results will be announced by 30th March 2014. Fee £6.00.  Length:  1000 – 3000 words, any theme and open to age 18+ NB:  Stories...

The Time & Place Prize is an international literary award established to provide the two things every writer requires . . . the time and the place to write.   Join us in France! The winner of The Time & Place Prize receives a month-long stay in an idyllic cottage nestled among the menhirs, myths and mists of Bretagne, France. The Prize includes:   Round-trip airfare to and from Paris, France plus ground transport to and from the cottage...

The Cassini spacecraft launched in October 1997 and has been orbiting Saturn since 2004. The 2013 Cassini Scientist for a Day Essay Contest is open to students in grades 5-12.  Essays must be under 500 words.   There are three essay topics to choose from:  1.  Saturn’s moon, Iapetus 2.  Saturn’s moon, Dione 3.  Saturn Students choose one of these topics and write an essay about why they think this image should be taken by the...

(Ventura, CA—August 27, 2013)  The Ventura County Writers Club (VCWC) announced its 14th Annual Short Story Contest, which will open for submissions on September 1, 2013 and close October 15, 2013. For the second year, the Short Story contest will accept entries from students currently enrolled in high school. The student entries will be judged in a separate category.The contest draws entries from around the country as well as internationally....