Writing Competitions

I recently had my English teacher critique my personal statement, within which I state my career goal of becoming a published writer. After reading, she asked if I had entered any competitions, but I wasn't even aware there was such things as I didn't really get the encouragement to develop in English until I got to college. Could anybody point me towards competitions that I should enter? Is there any particularly high quality ones?

Cheers in advance. :smile:

Reply 1

gethsemane342

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Giant list which is updated very often

Go nuts.

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Glenbot3000

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Original post by gethsemane342

Giant list which is updated very often

Go nuts.

muchos gracias.

I don't s'pose you have any experience yourself, or perhaps, more importantly, any tips to share? :smile:

Reply 3

diggy

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Quite interesting I might just have to enter one of those

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gethsemane342

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Original post by Glenbot3000

muchos gracias.

I don't s'pose you have any experience yourself, or perhaps, more importantly, any tips to share? :smile:

Nah - I have some sketchy experience (only really substantial one being I was one of the first runners-up for the Young Fiction Writer of the Year contest. There's a youtube video somewhere of the winners and runners-up meeting the PM at the time but I'm missing from it as I had to be somewhere else that day) but I haven't gotten back into competitions for years. I found that site when I went through one of my "I should enter a competition again" phases :tongue:

From what I know of competitions, don't be offended if you get rejected: it happens to everyone. I think I read somewhere that Harry Potter was rejected by quite a few publishers before Bloomsbury (or whoever it is) decided to take a chance on it and see how that's turned out. That and proof-read a *lot*. Get a third party to read it over if you can.

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Glenbot3000

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Original post by gethsemane342

Nah - I have some sketchy experience (only really substantial one being I was one of the first runners-up for the Young Fiction Writer of the Year contest. There's a youtube video somewhere of the winners and runners-up meeting the PM at the time but I'm missing from it as I had to be somewhere else that day) but I haven't gotten back into competitions for years. I found that site when I went through one of my "I should enter a competition again" phases :tongue:

From what I know of competitions, don't be offended if you get rejected: it happens to everyone. I think I read somewhere that Harry Potter was rejected by quite a few publishers before Bloomsbury (or whoever it is) decided to take a chance on it and see how that's turned out. That and proof-read a *lot*. Get a third party to read it over if you can.

Thank you very much, most helpful. I'm excited to get started now. :smile:

Reply 6

badgerdawkins

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The Foyles Young Poetry contest is good especially as the winning prize is a workshop to develop your writing skills further. Also, a good place to start is a flash fiction competition. Last year I entered a Bloomsbury competition to write a story in only 147 words and I won two books from it!

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