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Meridian Writing
Meridian Writing have been hosting quarterly short story competitions since 2009 - with deadlines of 31st March (spring), 30th June (summer), 30th September (autumn) and 31st December (winter).
Our competitions are open to new and published authors with stories in any genre/theme and have a maximum limit of 3,000 words.
An entry fee of £5/story applies with prizes of £100, £50 and £25 plus a firstwriter.com voucher worth £10.
We have a critique service available for competition and non-competition stories with prices ranging from £3 to £25 - please refer to the website for full details regarding submission requirements and critique options.
http:\\www.meridian-writing.co.uk
info@meridian-writing.co.uk

Erewash Writers' Group Open Short Story Competition 2012
Closing date: Midnight (GMT) Wednesday 27th June 2012.
Prizes: First £60, Second £30, Third £15, and a donation to a UK charity or voluntary group
Entry fee: £3.00 for one entry or £5.00 for two. £2.50 for each additional entry.
The competition is open to all ages. Submissions may be up to 1,500 words. Winning entrants will receive the cash prizes and can choose to have their work published on the website. With every entry there is the choice to nominate a UK charity or voluntary group for a donation, currently at £25 and likely to increase. Entries may be submitted by email, or by post. Payment to be posted. For full details please visit the web site. erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/

Emerald Writing Workshops
This is a site for short fiction with cash prizes and a modest entry fee. Three comps have already been judged and details of these are on the website as well as the remaining comps for 2011.
http:\\www.emeraldwritingworkshops.co.uk

Article Writing Competition
First Prize £50 plus publication
Entry fee £3
1000 words on the theme of 'Countryside Memories'
More info: Park Publications, 14 The Park,
Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire, GL54 1DX.

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize
Details of a fabulous £25,000 prize and other competitions from http://www.wellcomebookprize.org/About-the-prize/Rules-and-entry/index.htm
The award will be made on a yearly basis. Submissions will be permissible for any book published between 1 October of one year and 30 September of the next. A shortlist of six books will then be announced at The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival in October, and a winner will be announced at a ceremony to be held at Wellcome Collection in early November.

SPEAKEASY Milton Keynes Writers Group
Open Creative Writing Comp.
First Prize £100, second £50, Third £25. In two categories
Entry Form from www.mkweb.co.uk/speakeasy.

Writers' Forum Short Story Competition
Prizes from £150 to £250 in each issue. Annual prize of £1,000.
Reading fee is £10: SAE to Writers' Forum Short Story Comp, PO Box 3229, Bournemouth BH1 1ZS. See Writers' FORUM magazine for more details.

The Bridport Prize
First Prize £5,000 plus publication
Poetry and short stories Closing date 30 June
http://www.bridportprize.org.uk

Daily Telegraph Arvon International Poetry Competition
First Prize £5,000
Poetry of any length.
Competition opens in May and closes in August each year.
http://www.arvonfoundation.org

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
$2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2011 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a thirty-year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose voices have yet to be heard.
Deadline May1st.
www.shortstorycompetition.com