On Saturday I had lunch with the Birmingham Chapter of the Romantic Novelists’ Association.
It was a very positive affair with lots of people having good news to share such as excellent reports from the RNA’s New Writers’ Scheme, publishing deals and competition successes. As always I came away eager to get writing again.
One of our members, romantic comedy author Alison May has been asked to judge a short story competition for the first time and she gave us the details (unfortunately there’ll be no favouritism because it’s all judged anonymously).
The first Black Pear Press Short Story Competition is for stories up to 1500 words in any genre/theme.
First prize is £75 and second prize is two Black Pear Press publications. Entries may be published on the Black Pear Press website and may be included in an anthology.
Closing date is 26th September 2014 and entry is via email. Entry fee is £5.
Full details are here.
Another ‘first’ short story competition that you might like to consider is that currently underway at KISHBOO. This will become a regular quarterly competition with a first prize of £50 and a second prize of £25. The entry fee is £3 and the first competition closes on October 20th 2014. Again any genre/theme is acceptable and the maximum word count is 2,000. The full terms and conditions are here.
Good Luck!
Sally Jenkins 
#1 by susanjanejoness on September 2, 2014 - 2:44 pm
Thanks for the details Sally. I’ve entered the kishboo one, and I’ve got an article appearing in there…. looks like a good e-zine from Kieth and Sharon, hope it goes well for them. And hope I win the competition of course. Good luck to you if you have a go…
#2 by Sally Jenkins on September 2, 2014 - 3:25 pm
I’ve sent an article to Kishboo too, Susan. Hope you do well in their story competition.