A Little Competition

So that 'pretty peaceful - stay at home/be on call - week', I talked about in my last post didn't really end up going as expected and I have ended up working six days out of the last 7. That coupled with three days a week at the gym and time away from the house hasn't really made for the most productive environment...

Thankfully I'm no longer on call and I am itching to get some writing done so I should have something up within the next few days.

In the meantime I've been taking another look at the various writing competitions that are coming up that I would be eligible to enter.

This is what I have found so far:

Odyssey House Short Story Competition

1500 word short story exploring the theme "How did I find myself here" and making some reference to experiences either with drugs or alcohol - may be difficult to pull of considering lack of experience with abuse of either... Still the website says that they only need to be mentioned in the story as opposed to being the main focus. Have a few ideas, will see where they go.

Submissions close 4th November.

Link

Australian Literature Review Monthly Competitions

Short story of between 1000 and 3000 words fitting the theme of the month entered - in November the theme is 'Murder', which I'm not really sure about, but it won't hurt to take a crack. Will need to do some thinking on this one.

Submissions close 20th November.

Link

The Writing Lab Facebook Competition

Bit of an odd one. At first I thought it said 420 word limit, but it's actually a 420 character limit... Still this one will be seen by the most amount of people - as it is on Facebook and the winner is decided by the number of likes (a fair system to be sure...). Though given the length and the possible exposure it seems silly not to enter.

Submissions close 31st December.

Link


Not a very big list so far, but I get the feeling that there aren't that many competitions run at the tail end of the year. Will keep checking and update with more as I find them, as well as having a look for international competitions as well as Australian ones.


Comments and story ideas welcome - always good to bounce ideas off someone.

Till the next one,



M.