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Current UK Writing Competitions
Ive never won a poetry competition, mainly, I like to think, because I havent entered many (4), but I did once win a cash prize for a short story, and then of course I won the Peter Pook Humorous Novel Contest with Stiff Competition, a novel that had previously been rejected by a top publisher for being too funny (see Comps Novel). I therefore speak from experience when I say that winning small, lesser-known competitions doesnt lead to overnight fame. But having
a few such successes to boast about does you no harm when approaching editors or agents, so if you do have dreams of a writing career, this could be the place to begin. Or maybe you just want to win some money. Whatever your motives, the only advice I can offer is to suggest you emulate my old friend Percy Vere, who reads, writes, reads, writes ad infinitum. Below is a list of the most interesting UK writing competitions Ive found recently
(entry is not necessarily limited to UK residents).=> Bear in mind that contests with smaller prizes, and those where you have to write for details, attract fewer entries. Such competitions are easier to win.
Below is a list of the most interesting UK writing competitions Ive found recently
(entry is not necessarily limited to UK residents).
=> Bear in mind that contests with smaller prizes, and those where you have to write for details, attract fewer entries. Such competitions are easier to win.
UK Writing Competitions (currently 71)
Updated 3.1.12
Writers Forum Short Story Competition. There is a new contest in each issue of this writers mag. All types of stories are accepted, from horror to romance, with a length of between 1,000 and 3,000 words.
Closing: Monthly. Entries arriving too late for one comp go into the next. Prizes: £300, £150, £100 in each issue. Entry Fee: £6, or £3 for subscribers to the magazine. Critique - £5 (enclose sae if entering by post). Comp Page: Click Here.
Writers Forum Poetry Competition. This
monthly contest from the glossy magazine Writers Forum is for poems of up to 40 lines. Closing: Monthly. Entries arriving too late for one month go forward to the next. Prizes: 1st - £100. Runners-up - A Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Entry Fee: £5 each, £3 each thereafter. Includes a free critique (sae required if entering by post).
Comp Page: Click Here.
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Hi Before I discovered your website Id never even thought of trying my luck in a writing competition. My stories were a very private part of my life, I was (and for the most of the time still am) very convinced that they are not good enough for the outside world. I dont know what made me try - call it a crazy moment of self-confidence - but here I am the October winner of the Cazart short story competition.
I havent felt so good about myself in months. It might not seem like a big deal to the world but for me it means everything. And it would not have happened if it wasnt for your wonderful website. Thank You very
much. - Dorota Nocun
Updated 17.9.14
Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet Prizes. Entries for ths one should comprise 15 to 25 poems of up
to 50 lines each. Closing: Annually (end of March). Prizes: 4 x £150 plus publishing contract. Entry Fee: £10. Comp Page:
Click Here.
Updated 17.9.14
Cinnamon Press Short Story Award. This is for stories of between 2,000 and 5,000 words. Closing: annually (end of May).
Prize: £700, £150, £50, plus publication. Entry Fee: £12 (includes a free copy of the winners anthology). Comp Page: Click Here.
Cinnamon Press Debut Novel/Novella Prize. To enter this you submit the first 10,000 words of your novel or novella. Closing: Anually (end of July). Prize
: £1,000 and a pulishing contract. Entry Fee: £12. Comp Page: Click Here.
WriteOnSite Writing Competition. This, they say, could be described as literary open mic. The competition opens at 5.30pm GMT every Saturday, at which point three themes are given. You choose your theme, pay your entry fee and then write. You have just 20 minutes to complete
your story. Three entries are then chosen to be read and judged by all the other entrants during the following week. Only for the brave. Closing: Every Saturday. Prize: £40. Entry Fee: £3. Comp Page: Click Here.
Added 6.7.09
Telegraph Just Back Travel writing Competition. If you are just back from somewhere a little more
interesting than the local park, the Telegraph Online would like the gripping details in up to 500 words. You can read previous winners on the website. A voyage across the Mersey is one of them - proving that you dont have to write about anywhere exotic to scoop the prize. Closing: Monthly. Prize: £200 in the currency of your choice. Entry Fee: None - free to enter.
Comp Page: Click Here.
Updated 27.6.10
The Write Place Novel Competition. This contest has now been cancelled by the promoters (The Write Place Creative Writing School) following my comments about the alleged value of the prize (publication) and the nature of the publishing firm (Pneuma Springs Publishing) supplying it. Although the promoters are blaming me for ruining a worthwhile
competition, I consider the cancellation to be their acceptance that my comments were spot on. Pneuma Springs Publishing offers services which are deemed by the book trade to be vanity publishing. If anyone is unclear about the meaning and implications of this term, they should read the free
Occasional Paper on Vanity Publishing by the Society of Authors: Click Here.
The Rules, the T&Cs, the Fine PrintWhen you submit a story or poem to a competition, you are entering into a contract with the promoter. Make sure you know the terms. It may be, for instance, that you are granting the promoter the right to publish your work without payment
even if you dont win. This is often the price you pay for entering a contest with no entry fee. If it bothers you, dont participate. But before you get sniffy about that 450-word story set in the sedate world of turnip farming, ask yourself this: Would I really be able to sell it to anyone else? Publication, even without payment, might not be a bad thing if it gets you a healthy crop of readers. And if its in a newspaper or magazine that carries some
prestige ... well, there are plenty of struggling writers who would gift wrap and hand over their very souls for the privilege of being able to put that in their cv. Only you can decide if its worth it.
Updated 1.1.13
Camp Trip Writing Contest. This recurring US contest is for camping related articles (minimum 200 words) in
which you share your tips, tricks, advice, infomative experience, etc. Note that your entry may appear on the website, so leave out the illegal stuff (such as what you were smoking round the campfire). Closing: Each time 100 entries have been received. Then a new contest begins. See website for latest count. Prizes: $100, $75, $25 - all in Visa Gift Cards. Entry Fee
: None - free to enter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Added1.11.09Updated 12.4.11
Dear Michael,
I just wanted to tell you that I won first prize in the Charnwood Arts' miniWords Poetry Competition (£250), so thank you very much for that!
- Mary Whitsell
Hello Michael I've just won the Telegraph's 'Just Back' Travel Writing Competition, which I heard about on your site. Thank you yet again for providing this service to writers. It's a good thing I don't have to tell you about all the competitions I entered but didn't win, isn't it? But all the rejections only make the wins that much sweeter!
Mary Whitsell
Added 7.4.13
Daggerville Games Writing Competition. This monthly contest from Daggerville Games is for short pieces of writing (up to 250 words) on a different theme each month. The theme for April - and I apologise if it is no longer April and Ive forgotten
to update this - is The Perfect Murder. You have to Like the firm on Facebook to enter, but other than this requirement to be free and easy with your affections, there is no cost. Closing: End of each month. Prize: $50 Amazon voucher. Entry Fee: None - free to enter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Dear Michael I regularly look at your website which is very helpful. I entered my novella 'Living Doll' in the
Pageturner competition run by Contact Publlshing which you listed and it made the 10 shortlisted entries, being rated 6th overall. Not a big success but something! Many thanks for your website. Best wishes
- Suzanne Thorpe
Updated 1.6.14
Dark Tales Short Story Competition. As you may gather from the name of the competition, this is not for the sort of cheerful happy-ending story that leaves you with a warm glow inside. It is for horror and speculative fiction, the sort that leaves you afraid to turn the lights out in case something is hiding in the wardrobe. Your entry must be
limited to 5,000 words. Closing: Monthly. Prize: £100. Winner and shortlisted stories will be published in Dark Tales. Entry Fee: £5. Comp Page:
Click Here.
Hi Michael Love, love, love your site! But it should come with a word of warning to other would-be comp winners. Go straight to terms and condition page first. Just spent the last hour and a half crafting (skillfully obviously) a poem about bingo for one of the contests on
your site, only to find that (unlucky for some, or rather - me) when I went to email it, it was for UK residents only! I went to dramatically raise my hand to my forehead saying `oh s**t!` when I knocked over my glass of wine on the desk. As I went to quickly mop up everything, I knocked my phone off the table where it now lies wet and immobilised. So, to re-evaluate: 1. Check terms and conditions. 2. Don`t make any sudden, dramatic hand movements. 3. Don`t place
wine on same surface as computer. 4. Don`t place mobile phone on same surface as wine glass. And finally, 5. Make sure there`s a spare bottle of wine in fridge when you go to drown your sorrows on your time-wasted, expensive, quiet sunday evening in.
- Susan from Dublin
Added 1.3.14
Spinetinglers Short Story Competition. This international contest from Spinetinglers Publishing is for stories of up to 5,000 words suitable for making the readers spine ... well, Im sure you can fill in the missing word. Closing: Monthly. Prizes
: £100, £50 and 3 x £25. Winners will be published on the website. Entry Fee: None - free to enter. Comp Page: Click Here
The Ó Bhéal Five Words International Poetry Competition. Heres another Corker from ireland. Sorry couldnt resist that. Ill start again. This one from Cork in Ireland is for poems of up to 50 lines (including line breaks) which feature the five words given on
the website for that week. At the time of writing, the five words were: compass, apple, Jasmine, onions, oblique. A shortlist of 12 will be selected after the final closing date next January, and the winner will be chosen from that. Ó Bhéal, incidentally, is a weekly poetry event in Cork (as you probably know, the word itself is Irish for word of mouth). Closing: Every Tuesday at noon until the last week of January 2015.
Prize: 500 euros and an invitation to read at the Ó Bhéals event in Ireland, with travel expenses of 100 euro and B&B accommodation. Entry Fee: 5 euro. Comp Page: Click Here.
Added 2.5.14
Templar Quarterly Pamphlet Awards. This is for short poetry collections of between 10 and 12 pages. Closing: 1.12.14, 1.3.15. Prize: Your collection publsihed as a Templar Pamphlet with a page on
the website dedicated to same. You get 25 free copies of the pamphlet and an offer of further copes at a discount price. You also get a Templar Poetry publishing agreement with the option to submit a full collection for possible publication. Entry Fee: £10. Comp Page: Click Here.
Dear Michael, Thank you for maintaining your informative and witty list of writing competitions.
I entered loads of them last year and got precisely nowhere, but I ploughed on regardless and have just won second prize (£100) in the Flash 500 Humour Verse contest, which would suggest that your friend Percy Vere might be onto something.
- Melanie Branton
Added 1.5.14
Writers Village Bursary Competition. This quarterly contest from the Writerss Village website offers an interesting opportunity for debut novelists. If thats you and you have a completed but unpublished novel ready to go, submit it together with a synopsis and covering letter as if sending it to an agent or publisher.
Closing: 31.12.14, 31.3.15. Prize: £500 and your novel assessed by literary agency A M Heath. The eight shortlisted entrants will receive a brief commentary on their submission from Award judge Michelle Spring. Entry Fee: £14. Comp Page:
Click Here.
Added 2.3.12
Dear Mr Michael I discovered your website back in November, then, in January, finally had the guts to enter the Whidbey Writers Competition, with the 'lazy' way of judging
entries: stopping reading once they found 'the one'. The January theme was Villains, and, guess what, I won. Thank goody-goody gumdrops for Prizemagic. Keep Smiling
- Hannie Duncombe (The youngest ever Student Choice winner, at 13, thanks to you.)
Updated 23.7.14
Flash 500 Humorous Verse Competition. This quarterly contest from the Flash 500 website is having the last laugh as its now in its fourth year. Any kind of humorous verse is required, up to 32 lines. Closing: 31.12.14, 31.3.15. Prizes: 1st £150 and publication in Words with Jam. 2nd - £100. 3rd - £50.
Entry Fee: £3 for the first, £2.50 thereafter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Hi Michael Just to let you know I was a runner up in last years Eyelands short story competition. I entered it mainly because entries were accepted by email. The main prizes were very generous, as I remember they included video cameras and computers and a notebook which I took to mean a notebook computer. I didnt win any of these but I was awarded with distinction and sent
a certificate to prove it. I also received a copy of the Eyelands anthology which included my story. Only one problem its in Greek. I recognised my story because it had my name at the top in English. I advise anyone entering this year's comp to look for the automatic translation feature in google - unless of course they understand Greek! Many thanks for your website. Always interesting even if I don't enter one of the comps.
- Mary Hodges
Flash 500 Competition. This quarterly flash fiction contest, which offers higher prize money than many similar competitions, is for stories of up to 500 words on any theme. Closing: 31.12.14, 31.3.15. Prizes: 1st - £300 and publication in Words With Jam. 2nd - £200. 3rd - £100.
Highly Commended - A copy of The Writers ABC Checklist. Entry Fee: £5 each, £8 for two. Comp Page: Click Here.
Michael, I have been a follower of your excellent site for a few years, finally with some success. I usually submit poetry but I have won 2nd Prize in the Eyelands Short Story competition - a piece of Greek pottery and copy of the Anthology containing my story. I hope the Anthology copy
which I receive is not all GREEK TO ME like Mary Hodges copy last Year!
- Regards Fred McIlmoyle
New Media Writing Prize 2014. This international contest from Bournemouth University is, as the name suggests, for new media. The contest has been running annually for five years now. In 2011 they explained new media thus: It is the amalgamation of traditional media such as films, images, music and the written word, but with interactive
features. As well as poetry, they want short stories, novels, documentaries. All entries should be written specifically for delivery/viewing on a PC or Mac, the web, or a hand-held device such as an iPad, mobile phone or one of the latest electric nose-hair clippers with Internet connectivity. To get an idea of what the judges are looking for, you can access previous winners on the website. There are three categories: Overall Winner, Student Winner, Peoples Choice.
Closing: 28.11.14 (Noon). Students have a later deadline (noon on 12.12.14) as they seldom get up before noon and are bound to miss the first one. Prizes: Overall Winner: At this point regular readers will be expecting me say say a pair of overalls but Im giving that one a rest this time round. The prize is £1,000. Student Winner: A three-month paid work placement at a leading e-learning company (Unicorn
Trading). Peoples Choice - £250. Entry Fee: None - free to enter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Added 12.7.14
Magic Oxygen Literary Competition. Here is a poetry and short story contest with a difference. For every entry received, Magic Oxygen Publishing of Dorset will plant a tree in Kenya to create a tropical word forest. And when the contest closes each entrant will receive the GPS
co-ordinates of their tree. It is not clear if you will have visiting rights or if you will be able to send your tree a card on its birthday, but you will certainly be able to feel good about helping to restore some of our plants lost greenery. Poems should be limited to 50 lines while short stories can, if required, extend to 4,000 words. Closing: 30.11.14. Prizes (in each category): £1,000, £500, £100, and two of £50.
Entry Fee: £5. Comp Page: Click Here.
SLQ Poetry Competition. This regular contest from Sentinel Literary Quarterly is for poems of up to 50 lines on any subject. Closing: 30.11.14. Prizes: £200, £75, £50, 3 x £20. Entry Fee: £4 each, £7 for two, £9 for three, £11 for four, £12 for
five. For orders of one gross or more: P.O.A. Comp Page: Click Here.
Added 21.9.13
Dear Michael I wanted to let you know that I was awarded second prize, and publication in an anthology, for my entry into the Cwrtnewydd Scribblers Short Story Comp 2013. Without your wonderful website, I would never have found out about this prize! Thanks so much!
- Russell Clegg
Atlantis Short Story Competition. This contest from the USA is for stories of up to 2,500 words on any theme. Every participant gets a brief comment and something called an evaluation table. Closing: 30.11.14. Prizes: $300, $100, $50. Plus in-depth feedback for the top 15 entries and the
option to have the story published on the website. Entry Fee: $10. Comp Page: Click Here.
Added 1.7.14
The Plough Poetry Prize. Arr, it be that time again. The Plough Prize, which if Im not mistaken was formerly known as The Hayseeds Award, is back for its umpteenth annual appearance. It comes from the Plough Arts Centre in Torrington, Devon. It is for poems of up to 40 lines in any
style and on any subject. The judge is Liz Lochhead, the Scots Makar (national poet). Closing: 30.11.14. Prizes: Im tempted to say ploughs, but I think Ive done that one before. The prizes are actually quite useful amounts of money: £1,000, £500, £250. Entry Fee: £5. Comp Page: Click Here.
Added 2.9.14
Writers Bureau Flash Fiction Competition.
This one from creative writing correspondence college Writers Bureau is for stories of up to 500 words on any theme. Closing: 30.11.14. Prizes: £300, £200, £100. The winning entries will be published in Freelance Market News. Entry Fee: £5 each, £10 for three. Comp Page: Click Here.
SLQ Short Story Competition
. This return visitor from Sentinel Literary Quarterly is for short stories of up to 1,500 words. There is no theme. Closing: 30.11.14. Prizes: £200, £75, £50, 3 x £20. Entry Fee: £5 each, £8 for two, £10 for three, £12 for four. Comp Page: Click Here.
Fish Short Story Prize. Dont worry if you arent a fish, for this contest is actually for humans and doesnt even have a fishy theme. Its from Fish Publishing of Cork, Ireland, and is for stories of up to 5,000 words on any subject. Closing: 30.11.14.
Prizes: 1st - 3,000 euros (1,000 of which is for travel expenses to the launch of the Anthology in Ireland). 2nd - A week at Anam Cara Writers Retreat in Ireland plus 300 euros 3rd - 300 euros. Ten stories will be publishd in the Fish Anthology. Entry Fee: 20 euros for the first, 10 thereafter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Bridgend Writers Circle Short Story Competition. This contest from
Bridgend in Wales is for stories of betwen 1,500 and 2,000 words on the theme of Bridges. The bridges may be actual or metaphorical. Closing: 30.11.14. Prizes: 1st - A place on a writing course at the well-known Ty Newyyd Writers Centre in Wales worth £500. 2nd - A Chapter Arts Centre Silver Friends membership plus a set of 10 signed New Mabinogion stories from Seren Publishers. 3rd - A Chapter Arts Centre Silver
Friends membership plus an evening at Chapter. Winners will have the opportunity to be published in an anthology celebrating the Circles 40th anniversary. Entry Fee: £5 each, £7.50 for two. Comp Page:
Click Here.
Choc Lit Search for a Star Competition. This one from Choc Lit Publishing and Whole Story Audiobooks is for completed romantic novels. These should have an irresistible male
hero. How quaintly old-fashioned. Stories should run to between 60,000 and 100,000 words. To be eligible, your entry must be unpublished, or self-published with fewer than 15 reviews on Amazon (Damn - if only you hadnt begged all your relatives and friends to give you those favourable reviews!). Closing: 30.11.14. Prize: Publication. Entry Fee: £10. Comp
Page: Click Here.
Dear Michael, I love your website and its pertinent personal comments re the comps.
I entered the Alexander Cordell one some months ago, the mini saga, and was short-listed to win. It was a 600 mile round trip with two toddlers but we had a really wonderful weekend. My husband is self employed and works really long hours so it was great to drag him away and out into the countryside. The people were lovely, the whole event was fascinating, and I was thrilled to get two books and a book token. My little girl age 3 gets excited every time Wales is
mentioned on the news now! The greatest thrill was hearing the Director of Visit Wales read out my story so reverently, and with evident enjoyment. The organisers were delighted with the world-wide entries. I dont write for money - just as well - but for the love of the medium and the message.
Keep up the good work! - Julie Noble
Gregory ODonoghue International Poetry Competition
. This annual contest from the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland is for poems of up to 40 lines in English on any subject. Closing: 30.11.14. Prizes: 1st - 1,000 euros, publication in Southword Journal, a weeks residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and a trip to Cork. 2nd - 500 euros and publication in Southword Journal. 3rd - 250 euros and publication in Southword Journal
. Runners-up (10) - publication in Southword Journal and a fee of 30 euros. Entry Fee: 5 euros each, 20 euros for five. Comp Page: Click Here
Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition. This annual contest from the Norwich-based writers network Cafe Writers could be just your pot of tea and a buttered scone. It is for poems of up to 40 lines on any
subject. Poet David Morley will be judging. Closing: 30.11.14. Prizes: £1,000, £300, £200, and 6 x £50. Funniest Poem Not Winning Another Prize - £100. Norfolk Prize (for a permanent resident of the county) - £100. Entry Fee: £4 each, £10 for 3, £2 each thereafter. Comp Page:
Click Here.
TXTLit Micro Story Competition. For this contest you need a mobile phone. Well, everyones got one, havent they? No. Theres still one person in the UK who hasnt. Me. I dont like phones of any sort. I have one that plugs into the wall but I never answer it when it rings. I think: Theyll ring again if its important. They seldom do, and if they do I never answer it and they never ring again - which proves they were just
time-wasters. Now, I may seem to be rambling a bit here, but hey, what do you know, this turns out to be relevant because you mustnt ramble in this competition. Limit your stories to 154 characters (letters and spaces, not people), and while youre about it, refrain from using abbreviated TXT gibberish, as this is not welcome. At last - someone is fighting back on behalf of the English language! There is a different theme each month. Closing
: 30.11.14. Prize: £50. Entry Fee: £1 plus the normal cost of sending a text message (no use asking me what that is). Website: Click Here.
Hi Michael I love your website, and am completely indebted to it! I began writing poetry when I was 12, but it would appear I've become a lot better at it now at 16, since Ive had a pretty good year thanks to your website - coming highly commended in a Poem Pigeon contest, runner-up in a Red Cross competition,
and commended in the Foyle Poets Award (which made me jump up and down for...hmm...three weeks straight). None of which I wouldve ever known about without your website. Thank you so much. Youve made this young writer very happy!
- Daniella Cugini x
Wild Words Writing Competition. This annual contest from Bridget Holding, a writing tutor at the University of Exeter, is for poetry or prose of up to 1,000 words. The theme is a quote from Isadora Duncan: You were once wild here. Dont let them tame you. I dont know where she heard these rumours about me, but I deny everything.
Closing: 1.12.14. Prizes: An online Wild Words writing course of your choice. Entry Fee: £5. Comp Page: Click Here.
Harpers Bazaar Short Story Competition. This return visitor from the well-known luxury fashion magazine Harpers Bazaar, which has been around since 1867 and has published stories by many famous writers, is for fiction of up to 3,000 words on
the subject of May. Thats that white stuff in the hedgerows. Or maybe its the month. Closing: 12.12.14. Prize: A weeks holiday at the Duchy of Cornwalls Manor House, Restormel Manor, which is said to be steeped in literary history (Daphne du Maurier lived nearby, and the house is now the venue for an annual festival in her honour). The winning story will be published in Harpers Bazaar.
Entry Fee: None - free entry. Comp Page: Click Here.
Added 1.9.11
St. Martins Minotaur/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition. For this international contest from the USA, which is for previously unpublished authors (self-published doesnt count), you submit a crime story of not less than 220 pages (60,000 words).
Closing: 15.12.14 (11.59pm EST). Prize: Publication by Minotaur Books, with a $10,000 advance. Entry Fee: None - free entry (only one per person). Comp Page: Click Here
Added 1.9.14
Junior Authors International Poetry Contest. This annual contest is for poems of up to 50 lines on any subject and in any style. It is open to writers aged between 9 and 21 from any
country (entries must be in English). Winners will be announced at the spring 2014 Junior Authors Writers Conference at the Manor House Hotel in Guildford, UK. Closing: 15.12.14 (midnight Pacific Standard Time). Prizes (in each of four age categories): 1st - Publication on the website, a certificate of achievement and a signed copy of Polly Wants to be a Writer: The Junior Authors Guide to Writing and Getting Published
by Laura Michelle Thomas. 2nd and 3rd - A $10 Amazon voucher, a certificate of achievement and a mention on the website. 4th, 5th and 6th - A certificate of achievement and a mention on the website. Entry Fee: None - free entry. Comp Page: Click Here.
Tethered by Letters Writing Competition. This international contest from the quarterly American literary journal
Tethered by Letters is for short stories of between 1,000 and 7.500 words, flash fiction of 55, 250 or 500 words max, and poems running to no more than three pages. Winners will be published in the journal. Closing: 15.12.14 (midnight PT). Prizes: Short story - $250. Flash Fiction - $50. Poetry - $100. Note that they reserve the right not to award any prizes if they consider none of the entries are up to
publication standard. In this case, entry fees will not be refunded. Entry Fees: Short Story - $10. Flash Fiction - $4 each, $10 for three. Poems - $5 each, $12 for three. Comp Page: Click Here.
Hi Michael, Thank you for continuing to provide so much information on your blog. Itd be a good read just for some of your coments even if I hadnt found it extremely helpful. Ive
had luck with a few of the competitions youve mentioned, including getting my first novel 'Escape to the Country' published a while back and more recently being placed in last months Spinetinglers competition.
- Patsy Collins
Word Hut Short Story Competition. Open worldwide, this regular contest from The Word Hut website is for stories of up to 1,000 words on any theme and in any genre. Closing: 21.12.14. Prizes: £70, £35, £15. Winners will be published on the website. Entry
Fee: £4. Comp Page: Click Here.
Writers Village International Short Fiction Award. This regular contest is for fictional stories of up to 3,000 words on any subject and in any genre. The judge is Dr John Yeoman, a man of letters (most of them after
his name: MA, MPil, PHD, RSVP, etc). Closing: 31.12.14. Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250, 5 x £50. In addition, five Highly Commended entrants will receive free entry into the next contest. Entry Fee: £15. All entrants receive a free critique ... even if they dont want one. Comp Page: Click Here.
Winter Warmer Writing Competition. This freebie from
Selfpublishing.ie is for short stories of between 750 and 1,250 words on the theme of Skimming Stones. This theme, they say, can be taken literally or metaphorically, or it can be used as an ending or a jumping-off point. I fancy the last option: I was skimming stones across the lake when Tinkerbell, my butler, brought me the news of Uncle Agathas ghastly murder. Closing: 31.12.14. Prizes: 1st - A place in highly-regarded
Listowel Writers Week 2015 Workshop (in County Kerry, Southern Ireland). You can choose from three workshops: Creative Writing Getting Started, Creative Writing Advanced, Short Fiction. 2nd - 50 euro Amazon voucher plus a copy of the Writers Notebook. 3rd - 25 euro Amazon voucher plus a copy of the notebook. Entry Fee: None - free to enter. Comp Page: Click Here.
SaveAs International Poetry And Prose Competition
. This one from the SaveAs Writers Group in Kent is for stories of up to 3,000 words and poems of up to 50 lines. There is no theme. Closing: 31.12.14. Prizes (in each category): £100, £50, £30. Plus each winner receives a trophy to be casually polishing when friends arrive. Entry Fee
: £3 each, £8 for three. Comp Page: Click Here.
Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. This annual contest from Irish magazine The Moth
is for poems oif any length and on any suject. I should perhaps mention that the magazine is not devoted to the subject of moths, fascinating though these may be. It is an arts and literature magazine. Presumably the name is a reference to the way artists and writers are attracted to the light of recognition, only to beat their wings in vain against an invisible barrier until finally, broken and defeated, they slide down on to the windowsill of despair. Youd think the magazine people could have come up with something a bit more cheerful than that, wouldnt you?
Closing: 31.12.14. Prizes: 1st - 10,000 euros. Runners-up (3) - 1,000 euros. Entry Fee: 12 euros. Comp Page: Click Here
Thank you, Michael, for bothering to put your website together. Encouraged by your words I sent off a piece to the Daily Telegraph Travel Writing Competition but didn't win. Third time lucky, and after considerable honing and editing, I have just been informed by the deputy editor that my piece will be published this Saturday (17th July) and I have won £200.
I am now inspired to go on to bigger things. Thanks again. - Liz Cleere
Dreamquest One Poetry and Writing Contest. The requirement for this US contest is for poems of up to 30 lines and short stories of up to five pages, any style or theme. Closing: 31.12.14. Prizes: Stories - $500, $250, $100. Poetry - $250, $125, $50. Winners will be published on the website. Entry
Fee: Stories - $10 postal, $12 electronic. Poetry - $5 postal, $7 electronic. Comp Page: Click Here.
The Jeremy Mogford Prize for Food and Drink Writing. Serving up a short story with a food and drink theme could win you a serious tip in this annual freebie from the FT Weekend
Oxford Literary Festival in association with Oxford Gastronomica. Just make sure you dont over-egg the pudding by exceeding the word limit of 2,500. Your entry, which can be fiction or fact, should be your own original work and unpublished. You must submit this by email as a Word attachment. Include your postal address, telephone number, email address, age and profession. The contest is open worldwide. Closing: 1.1.15.
Prize: £7,500. Entry Fee: None - free entry (only one entry per person). Entry Address (email): firstname.lastname@example.com Comp Page: Click Here.
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The Mona Schreiber Prize. This American contest is for humorous fiction and non-fiction running to no more
than 750 words. Comic essays, poetry, short stories, scripts and humorous shopping lists are all acceptable. Closing: 1.12.14. Prizes: $500, $250, $100. Entry Fee: $5. Comp Page: Click Here.
Henshaw Short Story Competition. This recurring contest from Henshaw Press is for stories of up to 2,000 words on
any subject. Closing: 12.1.15. Prizes: £100, £50, £25. Entry Fee: £5. Comp Page: Click Here.
Magma Poetry Competition. Heres one from the poetry magazine Magma. It has two categories: Judges Prize (for poems of 11 to 50 lines), and Editors Prize (poems of up to 10 lines). The judge is poet Jo
Shapcott. It is not stated who the editors are. The editorship rotates, they say. Closing: 19.1.15. Prizes: Judges Prize - £1,000, £300, £150. Editors Prize - £1,000, £300, and ten Special Mentions of £15 each. All fifteen winners will have their poems published in the magazine and will be invited to read at the prize-giving event. Entry Fee: £5 for the first, £4 for
the second, £3 thereafter. Its cheaper for subscribers. Comp Page: Click Here.
Hi Michael I spent a year or so reading all those comments on your website from people who, since consulting your list, seem have won just about every competition going. I read it and thought it must be too good to be true but worth a try. Then, on my third submission, I have actually gone and won the Yeovil Literary Prize for Poetry. I am absolutely over the moon,
unable to believe it, etc. Thank you so much.
- Andy Miller
SPC 80th Anniversary Playwriting Competition. This one from Sussex Playwrights Club is for plays with a performance time of between 75 and 100 minutes. These must contain the word or number eighty. Closing: 24.1.15. Prizes: £280, £180, £80. The top play will be give a rehearsed
script-in-hand reading as part of the Clubs anniversary celebrations. Entry Fee: £7. Comp Page: Click Here.
Erewash Writers Flash Fiction Competition. This latest flash fiction comp from Erewash Writers is for stories of up to 500 words. Closing: 29.1.15. Prize: A copy of Shirley Harbers paperback The Snake Princess, plus free entry
into the Open Short Story competition and online publication one comp website and Facebook. Entry Fee: None - free to enter. Comp Page:. Click Here.
Amnesty International Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year. Look away now if you are not between 7 and 18 and a UK resident. The rest of you get working on an article of up to 500 words on any human rights issue
or news story, or write a profile of a human rights activist or a campaign, or the human rights record of a particular country. The contest has four categories based on school years. The aim is to unearth and encourage the journalists of tomorrow to find compelling human rights stories. Closing: 30.1.15 (5pm). Prizes (in each category): 1st - The Amnesty Youth Awards trophy plus a certificate and a goody bag.
Runners-up (2) - A certificate and a goody bag. All winners will be invited to London for a ceremony at Amnesty International UKs offices. Entry Fee: None - free to enter. Comp Page: Click Here
Prole Lauriate Competition. This annual contest from Prole Books is for poems in any style that epitomise the editorial values of their poetry and prose magazine Prole. These values are summed up with the
following words: engaging, accessible, entertaining and challenging. Quality, they say, is all. They dont say anything about a line limit so you can if you wish really let yourself go and submit something long enough to test the judges endurance. But dont blame me if she hunts you down with a sawn-off shotgun. The judge in question is Helen Ivory. Closing: 31.1.15. Prizes: 1st - £200 and publication in the
magazine. Runners-up (2) - £50 and possible publication. Entry Fee: £3 for the first, £2 thereafter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Fish Short Memoir Competition. Memoirs of up to 4,000 words are required for this international contest from Fish Publishing of Cork, Ireland. Closing: 31.1.15. Prize: 1,000 euros. The
winner and nine runners-up will be published in the anthology. Entry Fee: 16 euros for the first, 10 euros thereafter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Dear Michael I won this year's Cinnamon Press Short Story competition. I wouldn't have known about this excellent small publishing press without your listings site. I just wanted to share with you my success (but not the prize money, obvs).
Best wishes, - Kerry Hood
The James White Award. This international contest is for science fiction stories of under 6,000 words written by non-professional writers. Professional and science fiction are defined on the website - which also contains a list of science fiction cliches you would be wise to avoid (e.g. robots that turn on their creators ... so no politicians). Closing: 31.1.15. Prize: £200. The
winning story will be published in the science fiction magazine Interzone. Entry Fee: None - free entry (although a donation would be appreciated). One entry per person. Comp Page: Click Here.
Nottingham Writers Club Short Story Competition. This national contest from the Nottingham Writers Club is for stories of up to 2,000 words on the theme of Water. It is aimed at new and less experienced writers,
defined on the website as those who have earned under £300 from short stories in 2014. I can think of some very experienced ones who havent earned that much. Closing: 31.1.15. Prizes: £300, £100, £50. Entry Fee: £5 each. Three or more, £4 each. Comp Page: Click Here.
Slipstream Poets Open Poetry Competition 2015
. Following close on the heels of their last contest, this one from Slipstream Poets of West Sussex is for poems of up to 60 lines on any subject. Roger Elkin will be judging. Closing: 31.1.15. Prizes: £275, £100, £75, 2 x £10. There is a separate prize of £25 and a trophy for the best poem by a West Sussex entrant, to qualify for which you must submit two copies of each poem entered. Entry
Fee: £3.50 each, £12 for four, £15 for six. Comp Page: Click Here.
Dear Michael Many thanks for your witty and informative listings. In 2012 I've won the Swanezine Poetry Prize, The Sampad 'Inspired by Tagore' Poetry Prize, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Prize and one of the Malahat Review Monostich Poetry Prizes. Feel free to hate me. I will still love you. Best wishes and thanks again.
- Cathy Bryant
Myriad Editions First Drafts Competition. For this one from Myriad Editions and West Dean College you submit up to 5,000 words plus a one-page synopsis of a work in progress. This could be a novel or a short story collection - but not the disjointed and interminable ramblings from your diary (save those for your blog).
Closing: 1.2.15. Prize: A one-week writing retreat at West Dean College near Chichester, with full board. Entry Fee: £5. Comp Page: Click Here.
Homestart Bridgewater Short Story Prize 2014. This contest in aid of the Homesart Bridgewater charity is for stories of up to 2,200 words on any theme. The judge is Tracy Chevalier, author of The Girl With a Pearl
Earring. Closing: 1.2.15. Prizes: £500, £200, £100, £100. Entry Fee: £7. Comp Page: Click Here.
Keats-Shelley Prize 2014. This annual international contest from the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association is for poems of up to 40 lines on the theme of Watcher of the Skies, and essays of up to 3,000 words on any aspect of the lives of the Romatics and
their circle. There is a new category this year for the 16-18 age group, and for this essays should be no more than 1,500 words. Matthew Sweeny and Jo Shapcott will be judging the poetry, while the essay judges are professors Simon Bainbridge and Sharon Rushton. Closing: 1.2.15. Prizes: There is a total of £4,000 to be divided in unspecified ways amongst an unspecified number of winners. The winning poems and essays
will be published in the Keates-Shelley Review. Entry Fee: Nothing vague about this. It's £5 a go. Comp Page: Click Here.
PWG Short Story Competition. This contest from Plymouth Writers Group is for stories of up to 2,000 words on any theme. Closing: 1.2.15. Prizes: £250, £50. The top five entries will be
included in the Plymouth Writers Group Anthology. Entry Fee: £5. Comp Page: Click Here.
Spotlight First Novel Competition. For this one from Adventures in Fiction you submit the first page of your novel and a one-page synopsis. Closing: 14.2.15. Prize: A Stage One mentoring package said to be worth £850, a spotlight on you and your novel, and
your sysnopsis, before and after, posted online. Entry Fee: £16. Comp Page: Click Here.
Writers & Artists Yearbook Short Story Competition. This annual freebee from Bloomsburys venerable Yearbook is for stories of up to 2,000 words on the theme of Joy. Closing: 15.2.15. Prize: £500 plus a place on a residential
Arvon writing course of your choice. The winning story will be published on the website. Entry Fee: None - free to enter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Christopher Tower Poetry Prize 2014. This annual contest from Christ Church, Oxford, is open to full- or part-time UK students between the ages of 16 and 18. It is for poems of up to 48 lines on the theme of Cells.
Closing: 27.2.15. Prizes: £3,000, £1,000, £500. The school/college of each winner will also receive a cash prize of £150. The three winners will be eligible for a place on the Tower Poetry Summer School. Longlisted entries will be published on the website. Entry Fee: None - free to enter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Fish Flash Fiction Competition. This one from
Irish publisher Fish is for stories of up to 300 words on any subject. Closing: 28.2.15. Prize: 1,000 euros. Ten stories will be published in the anthology. Entry Fee: 14 euros for the first, 8 euros thereafter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Grace Dieu Writing Competition. This annual offering
from the Grace Dieu Writers Circle is for short stories of up to 2,000 words and poems of up to 40 lines. Closing: 28.2.15. Prizes (in each category): £500, £200, £100, £75, £50. Entry Fees: Stories - £6 for the first, £4 thereafter. Poems - £5 each, £12 for thre £3 each thereafter. Comp Page: Click Here.
Hello Michael Just writing to let you know that my poem was "Highly Commended" in a Poem Pigeon contest I
found on your site. This was pleasing to me, but what was even better was to become part of such a friendly, hospitable group. Every one is so supportive of and kind to each other. They put up some pretty good poems too. Best wishes
- Penny Turner
Exeter Writers Short Story Competition. This annual international contest from Devon is for stories of up to 3,000 words in any genre except childrens. Closing: 28.2.15. Prizes: £500, £250, £100. In addition there is a £100 prize for a writer living in Devon.
Entry Fee: £6. Payment is by cheque or postal order only. If you are under 25 you may need to Google these. Comp Page: Click Here.
Neil Gunn Writing Competition. This contest from Scotland, which is organised by High Life Highland and the Neil Gunn Trust, is open worldwide and is for short stories of up to 2,500 words and poetry of up to 40 lnes on any of the set themes taken from
works by Scottish writer Neil Gunn. The themes, which you may interpret in any way you choose, are as follows: 1. For love is the creator and cruelty that which destroys. 2. The secret loveliness and laughter in things. 3. The extra magic of distance. A fourth theme, For goldtop holds the secret of creation ... from his note to the milkman has unfortunately been dropped. The contest also has free-to-enter categories for children attending Highland
schools. The details and themes for these can be found on the website. Closing: 2.3.15. Prizes: Adults - £500, £250, £100 in each of the two categories (short story and poetry). Entry Fee: Adults - £7. Comp Page:
Click Here (links to entry rules and forms at foot of page).
Erewash New Writer Competition 2015. Heres
another one from Erewash Writers. It is for stories of up to 3,000 words on any theme. Closing: 26.3.15. Prizes: 1st - £40. Runners-up receive a critique and a free entry to the Open Short Story contest. All winners will be published online. Entry Fee: £3 for one; more than one - £2.50 each. Comp Page:. Click Here.
Fish Poetry Competition. This international contest is for poems of up to 300 words on any subject and in any style. Closing: 30.3.15. Prizes: 1st - 1,000 euros. 2nd - A weeks residence at Anam Cara Writers and Artists Retreat in Cork, Ireland. Ten poems will be published in the anthology. Entry Fee: 14 euros for the first, 8 thereafter.
Comp Page: Click Here.
Bath Novel Award. Dont worry - you dont have to write a story about someone having a bath. The contest, which is open worldwide, takes its name from the town of Bath in Somerset and it is for novels on any subject. To enter you submit the first 5,000 words and a synopsis. Closing: 31.3.15. Prize: £1,000.
Entry Fee: £20. Comp Page: Click Here.
Bath Short Story Award. The task in this annual contest from the famous Roman spa town of Bath is simply to write a story for adults or young adults on any theme. There is a word limit of 2,200. Entries exceeding this will be going down the plughole, rejected before the first reading. Closing: 27.4.15.
Prizes: £1,000, £200, £100. Local Prize: £50. Entry Fee: £8. Comp Page: Click Here
One less Pedestrian ...Hi Just to let you know rather
belatedly that I entered a number of prose competitions last year all from your web site and had great fun trying a varied menu of different word lengths and genres. I won $500 in an essay writing competition in the Pedestrian magazine - entering despite your scathing comments. I got the money and bought a lovely new bike. The magazine then went bust so my entry wasnt published - so yet to see my name in print but I have the bike so hey ho.
- Rosemary Barry
Tom Howard/John H Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. This annual contest from American website Winning Writers is for stories and essays running to no more than 6,000 words on any theme. Previously published works are acceptable.
Closing: 30.4.15. Prizes: Best Short Fiction - $1,500. Best Essay - $1,500. In addition there will be ten Honourable Mentions with prizes of $100 each. The twelve winning entries will be published on the website. Entry Fee: $16. Comp Page: Click Here.
Bristol Short Story Prize 2014. This annual international
contest, bristoling with prizes as usual, is for stories of up to 4,000 words on any subject. It is open to published and unpublished writers. I went to Bristol on a treasure hunt once in search of a whalebone associated with the explorer John Cabot who was based there in the late 1400s. The whalebone wasnt the prize. It was a clue, or rather it would have been if I hadnt misinterpreted earlier clues and gone hopelessly wrong (the irrelevant Cabot whalebone was in
the western entrance to St Mary Redcliffe church, a fact Im confident you will one day find useful). You have probably twigged by now that this is in no way relevant to the competition. Its just that I cant think of anything else to say about Bristol, nice though it may be. One of the contest judges, incidentally, is literary agent Sarah Davis. Closing: 30.4.15. Prizes: 1st - £1,000 plus a £150 Waterstones gift
card. 2nd - £700 plus a £100 Waterstones gift card. 3rd - £400 plus a £100 Waterstones gift card. Runners-up (17) - £100. All 20 winners will be published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 8. The 20 shortlisted writers will be invited to an awards ceremony in Bristol where the winners will be announced. Entry Fee: £8. Comp Page: Click Here.
WritersReign Short Story Competition. This annual contest from Essex writers group WritersReign is for stories of between 1,000 and 1,500 words on any theme. They want stories that are well written, they say ... so that plotless shambles you dashed off in your coffee break probably wont do. Closing: 31.5.15. Prizes: £100, £50, £25, plus runners-up 3x£10. Entry Fee
: £3.50 each, £6 for two. Comp Page: Click Here.
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Hi Michael Just to say thanks to your website. I have won, not one, but two prizes! Having never entered a travel writing competition in my life before, I entered the Justback competition with the Telegraph, and won after a few attempts - working out what the travel editors liked. I then came second in the British Guild of Travel Writers competition. Great site - keep up the good work.
- Helen Moat
L. Ron Hubbards Writers of the Future Competition. This US contest is open worldwide and is for short stories of up to 17,000 words. They should be science fiction, fantasy or horror with fantastic elements. Closing: Quarterly. Prizes: $1,000, $750, $500.
Entry Fee: None. Website: Click Here.
Dear Michael Just to say a big Thank You for your work on the website. I have been selected for publication in the Mirador competition which ran last year and have been awarded 3rd place in the Stringybark Speculative Fiction competition. To be published twice is like a dream for me, which the information found on your site made possible. Thanks again.
- Pat Davies
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Just finished a sleep study with a "Winx" machine, which I think just got FDA approval.
To clarify why, I've been an xPAP user (CPAP, VPAP, ASV) for over 3 years. For whatever reason, despite good numbers after an arduous journey to using it successfully, I just don't feel awake. It's like xPAP only helps about 50%. You can search for my old threads if you want to learn more.
Anyways, this is quite honestly just something my doctor and I are trying. I think CPAP would still be the first line of choice for anybody for treatment, and it'll always be better because you have data that you can track. But if for whatever reason it's not working, another alternative is good, maybe.
I've also tried a dental appliance, which only dropped my AHI from the 40s to the 20s, so I figured it wouldn't be too much of an adjustment trying to sleep with this thing. My initial sleep study with CPAP was not fun!
So, if you've never heard of this machine, it works by negative pressure rather than positive pressure. It sucks up your tongue to the top of your mouth, which creates space behind your throat. CPAP "pushes" your throat open with pressure, the Winx "pulls" your throat open. This is another reason CPAP is probably better for most people, because you can almost always find a positive pressure amount which opens things up, whereas I think the negative pressure can work for some people, but not others. I'm not a doctor or a scientist, this is just my impression as a long-time xPAP user.
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It creates a vacuum when you 'seal' your throat. When you swallow, the back of your throat closes, and then the vacuum will keep it closed. (It may not close or stay closed for everybody, I think) Then the vacuum will slowly pull your tongue up and keep it there - you can feel this happening. It's a pretty weird sensation at first, and it took me a little time to get used to it. But after a while it didn't feel like something that would keep me up.
I had to take it out a few times overnight to "reset" it - it felt like I had to give my tongue a break. I think it would be something that I'd need to do less and less over time, maybe not at all - just guessing here.
In terms of sleep, I probably got about 5, maybe 6 hours on my sleep study. That's pretty good for me - I don't tend to sleep well in sleep studies. The sleep felt okay, considering everything. I'll have to see what the sleep study says in terms of breathing issues, desats, and arousals. My impression right now is that I'd probably want to try it for a few weeks and compare it to CPAP. At least, I can't think of anything more to try with xPAP. I've tried everything I can think of with it.
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Re Mike to middle class: Im on your side, May 18: I would vote for Bloomberg again. You forgot to mention he declined his mayoral salary. He accepts only $1 of his $195,000. Being that he is a billionaire he has no need to use taxpayer money. Using his own private jet is a great thing! If he can make money for his company, he would do the same for the city. Go Bloomberg!
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Mayor Bloomberg is spending obscene amounts of money with his Orwellian ad campaign selling his bogus message to the middle class, but his administration crushed the middle class. Mikes message is like the seats in the new Yankee Stadium nice, but most New Yorkers cant afford them. He prides himself on being an environmentally conscious mayor, but he flies around on his private jet.
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The media refuses to give much attention to the other, superior, candidates for mayor and then they have the nerve to run stories about how voters dont know any of the other candidates? I bet if you listed any of the Democrats platforms against Bloombergs youd find his approval rating drop to about zero. Did you not see what 16 years of Republican rule of NY has done to us? Eight years of Republican rule in D.C. destroyed America and that cant be refuted.
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6 Nov 2014 17:00 • Chris Donegan
Brothel keeping accused in court
A 35-year-old woman accused of keeping a house where men paid for sex with prostitutes appeared at Fermanagh Court yesterday (Wednesday).
6 Nov 2014 13:00 • Chris Donegan
Road rage driver attacked off-duty traffic officer
An angry driver vented his road rage on the wrong people when he attacked two cyclists, not realising they were off-duty policemen and one was a traffic cop.
18 Sep 2014 13:00 • Chris Donegan
Seriously ill serial stalker escapes jail
A 71-year-old serial stalker who terrorised a young mother of two for three years has escaped jail because he has cancer and may not live much longer.
28 Aug 2014 14:00 • Chris Donegan
Farmer still owes £20,000 over illegal dumping
A 70-year-old Fermanagh farmer who was the first person in Northern Ireland to be jailed for illegal dumping has paid a £50,000 fine but still owes £20,000.
28 Aug 2014 13:00 • Chris Donegan
Family homeless after arson attack
A family has been left homeless after a bungalow on the Greentown Road at Florencecourt was destroyed in an arson attack in the early hours of Sunday morning.
13 Aug 2014 11:30 • Chris Donegan
Boat engine stolen within metres of Enniskillen Police Station
Thieves in Fermanagh continue to commit crimes under the very noses of the police.
7 Aug 2014 18:00 • Chris Donegan
Released McDermott can visit parts of Donagh
A 64-year-old serial paedophile who sexually abused children for over 30 years is back on the streets.
26 Jun 2014 17:00 • Chris Donegan
Heroine revives 'cot death' baby
A mother of two from Kesh is being hailed a hero after bringing a dead baby back to life.
26 Jun 2014 13:00 • Chris Donegan
Contractor chases gang of five and gets back his stolen goods
A gang of five criminals met their match when they stole chain saws and other equipment from Adrian Walmsley's shed at his home on Boa Island, Kesh.
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Segovia - Spanish Rest?
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- joe Feb 23, 2006 10:44 AM
Has anybody been to Segovia? I was looking for a spanish place to go, and I found this one, near Yonge/Wellesley, but I've never heard of it before. Is it any good? Any suggestions?
I've never been, but only because I haven't heard good things.
Try Casa Barcelona -- I absolutly love their food. The service is great too.
re: RYP
Re: Casa Barcelona-(On Bloor just east of Royal York)Thumbs up, I agree - we go there a couple of times a month - our fave's:
Shrimp with Garlic
Steak with Portobello and Shitake sauce
Chicken with Saffron sauce
Salmon with red pepper sauce
(it's all about the sauces!).
Very extensive wine list - I usually just ask them for a glass of Rioja and not been disappointed
re: RYP
I just checked the link you listed. I was curious about this place because I lived in Barcelona for two and a half years. It doesnt seem very authentic just from looking at the website - for one thing, why is there a picture of 3 guys wearing Mexican mariachi outfits? The food list doesnt seem Catalan either.
re: mango
Since visiting Barcelona last year hubby & I have been dying to try tapas in TO. Went to Casa Barcelona last night and it was nothing like the tapas we had in Barcelona. The food was good, although not as great as I thought it would be. The thing I didn't like was ordering on a piece of paper only to have all of the dishes come out so quickly that we were finished our meal in less than a half hour. In Barcelona you wrote out your order but then they only brought out two at a time and gave you time to breath for a couple of minutes before astounding you with new tapas. We had 7 tapas and 1 ltr of Sangria and we were 92.00 before tip. In and out of the restaurant in less than one hour. Not the relaxing evening I had invisioned!
re: chanelsmomma
You guys are funny - in Barcelona each tapas place is VERY different than the next one. Some specializing in certain fish dishes, others in meats, etc. The best (ie. most expensive) serve whatever got hauled up on the dock that day. Casa Barcelona is, as noted, quite Canadianized and not the same as anything you'll get overseas (try explaining the difference between Spain and Catalan to a Canadian!). Hell, last time I was there my server was polish. That said, it was good (but not great) and, as noted, quite expensive.
Toronto is still waiting for great tapas.
I was there recently with a large group for a celebration.
- sangria
- friendly service
- great atmosphere
- mussels appetizer
- paella (all)
- most of the other appetizers
We had a few vegetarians in our group, so we called ahead, and they made an amazing vegetable paella for them, as well as some appetizers. I'd stick to the mains, and sangria. It's a good place, and not too expensive.
Can't vouch for authenticity, but Segovia is a hoot. Wild decor, very friendly staff, resonably priced. Have brought a few people and always enjoyed myself.
Perhaps more of an experiental restaurant than one striving for authenticity.
Also, the only restaurant I've seen in toronto located in a back alley!
re: bluedog
It is not a back alley, it is St. Nicholas Street Segovia is not the only restaurant on it either - there is a french bistro just up the street from Segovia along the same "back alley" as you call it. Matignon. It is cosy and reliable.
re: qwerty
Your are, of course, correct, however, I think you are being a bit hard on bluedog. The section of St. Nicholas from Wellesley up to Phipps and even to St. Joseph does look more like a back alley than a street - north of St. Joseph (where Matignon is) it is a different looking street.
I have been to Segovia (and Matignon) and enjoyed both, nothing spectacular but I would return.
re: George W.
Hmm, just noticed this and yes, of course, you are correct, it is a public thoroughfare with a name. However a rose, by any other name, is still a rose and every time I've taken people there, from my family, kids, a few out of town business associates, all of them refer to Segovia as that Spanish place in the back alley!
A case of the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law, methinks.
Anyhow, one way or the other enjoy it if you haven't already.
I have been dying for a taste of something approaching that of an actual paella - can I get an opinion on the better place to go for that? (The last time I even saw it on a menu was at the Pickle Barrel. When you order an ethnic dish from the Pickle Barrel you know you're reaching.)
re: TOfoodie
You can also get a tapas size paella at Segovia. Went for dinner a couple of weeks ago and wasn't that impressed with the rest of our meal. We had the garlic shrimps (tasteless), chorizo (tasty but I've had better), mussels (bland) and the monkfish (good but oily). I would recommend Embrujo over Segovia for tapas. Surprisingly my favourite paella was from Ba Ba Luu's in Yorkville.
I like Toritos- it's not "authentically" Spanish- but the owner, Veronica Laudes spent quite a bit of time in Barcelona and offers a contemporary, South American-flavoured take on trad tapas dishes. They have wonderful sangria (with fruit that hasn't been sitting around for days in lemon juice!) and a lovely selection of jerez and riojas.
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Thanks for the help. The tapas serving at Segovia and the convenient location entice me to try it sometime. As much as I'd like to try Ba Ba Luu's the price indicates a portion and investment that's too much for me...
I've been dying to go to Torito for some time as I read elsewhere they have fresh and delicious Sangria - a rarity in Toronto. I like the tapas format but does anyone know if Torito has a paella dish? And if it's any good?
Seems like there are just a few Spanish places that always come up, Casa Barcelona, Embrujo Flamenco Tapas, Segovia, and now Torito. It's odd how Toronto can have Thai places on every corner and a reasonable sprinkling of french bistro fare but less than a handful of Spanish places. <shrugs>
re: artificialard
The food is decent, but to add a bit to the experience they'll sometimes have a show. They'll have a girl sing and an older lady dance, it's not bad.


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Good afternoon! I'm excited to get started... This is a tricky market, so I'll be happy to answer your questions about the current trends and strategies for buying and selling that are working out there.
Sequester... Sequester.. Sequester... We hear it all the time. People want to know if this is the foil to the escalating prices. I don't think so. What has been driving the price increases of late, more than anything is a slim inventory coupled with the low cost of borrowing - interest rates. People are worried that the impact of cuts from the sequester will be falling employment. Truth is that the effects won't be immediate - if the steep cuts go through. Employers are still hiring - though at a lesser pace and the overall local economy is strong. I think rising interest rates and the realization that Sellers can get more for their homes will drive an uptick in inventory once people have a sense of increased equity in their homes.
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That is ton's of fun. Fixer uppers are a great way to build equity. They allow you to skip the premium that many are paying for a completely done up or new home and to build up your "sweat equity"... thing is, not everybody is good at or has the ability to manage a contruction site. Be careful not to bite off more than you can chew... who wants to brush their teeth in the kitchen sink for a year while their master bath is done over? Not most of us... Kitchens and baths get the most bang for your buck, but adding and preserving charm is also a fun and crafty way for an inexperienced renovator to make the place shine.
Buying a fixer uppper is a great way to buy in a neighborhood that you might not otherwise be able to afford.
The buy-low-sell-high business plan is certainly what everybody wants when they need to make a move. The thing is that you are trying to do so in the very same market... usually, if prices are high when you go to buy they are also high when you go to sell. You will be able to take more money with you to the new place... it's just that you may have to put it right back down on the downpayment. The good news is that lenders, faced with an improving market and low interests rates, are now offering lower downpayment options than they have in recent years. 100% down financing is largely a thing of the past, but with FHA financing widely available now, 3.5% downpayments are available and there are also some good low downpayment conventional loan products too... 3%, 5% or 10% down.
This the new normal. Here is the calculation that many buyers are going through. In a $400,000 condo with 10% downpayment and a 3.5% interest rate, the monthly payment including condo fees, taxes and insurance will be somewhere around $2,200/month. That is certainly not cheap, but just look on Craigslist to see how strong the rental market is here. You can easily pay that much or more for a rental in the same area... Why pay someone else's mortgage when you could be paying your own?
Hot tip: In Washington DC, there is a Transfer & Recordation Tax that both the Seller and the Buyer pay... If the property is under $400,000 the rate is 1.1% of the purchase price charged to each side of the transaction. If it's over $400,000 then both sides pay 1.45%. If you find yourself negotiation around that number, make sure to keep it in mind and point it out to the other side that you both can save if you drop the price a dollar.
Good question! You can easily go overboard and spend more than you will get back. My favorite is refinishing hardwood floors. Nothing gleams like a shiny new floor and even that polyeurethane smell can take the place of a "new car smell" getting people interested.
Don't forget gardening! With the weather cracking people want to get out and see new places... Greet them at the sidewalk with your curb appeal looking sharp.
Also, go neutral... New paint: good. New pink paint everywhere: not so much.
Multiple offers are becoming more common, and in some neighborhoods and projects, they are the norm. Other than paying 200% of the list price in cash delivered in a Samonite briefcase, here are some ways to get ahead if you want the same house as everybody else:
Limit the Length of your Contingencies: As a buyer you may well be wary of eliminating all protections from contingencies the contract. That's fine. Just limit the time and scope of them. Sellers will be more willing to accept contingencies when they feel they that their house won't be tied up for a long period of something goes wrong. Often, the other buyers who lost out are waiting in the wings to pounce if you back out.
Escalation Clauses: These are a way for a buyer to put down a base price in a contract that only raises if there is another "bona fide" offer that escalates your price. If the list price is $500,000 and your agent tells you that there are multiple offers, there is a pretty good chance that the price will go up from there. Pick a number that is just a bit over an obvious price break... i.e.: Escalating to $551,000 rather than $550,000. It's not an exact science, but you might get it.
Ask what the Sellers want: This may seem obvious, but sometimes a Seller wants more time in their home and does not value a 2 week settlement that you might have put in to show you are serious. If you don't ask then you won't know and sometimes you might be surpised what they are looking for
It sounds like you are viewing this as an investment. The good news is that it also sounds like you have equity in your home. If you like the idea of the cash and the freedom VS. being house-rich-cash-poor then SELL. Have you heard to get when the getting is good? Well, the getting is good.
If a fully renovated home went for $450 and yours is an end unit with some more modest improvements, I'd press the value play to buyers that they can come in without the premium for that other type of home.
Bring a real estate agent by, like one of our GreenLine Real Estate agents, and have them present you with the full market analysis. You'd be surprised how many buyers there are out there for products just like you described.
The first step is to apply with a mortgage loan officer. I know that many people want to know what they can afford before they officially find out from a lender, but that is really the best way. An online morgage calculator like mortgagecalculator.org will give you an idea, but a local lender is aware of the tax rates, typical insurance premiums in the areas you want to buy in and can help you figure that out too.
Make sure you asks what the HOA fees include. They are not always the same and sometimes cover many expenses you would otherwise have to pay out of pocket... sometimes they are just high.
Point taken. But real estate is an investment and banks require equity from the buyer to qualify. You have to pay to play. If you only put down 5%, your payment, in this scenario, would go up by about $100/month.
There are 1BRs under $400K too... We just put one under contract in a new building this morning for $300K.
Here is an important thing for all of you Home Sellers out there...
ALL REAL ESTATE COMMISSIONS ARE NEGOTIABLE! That is not to say that you get the same quality of marketing and service from every real estate agent, but you typically get what you pay for. A discount broker is discounting their rates because they are offering less services than a full service broker. This is not to say that you won't be happy with the sale or the price you get, but just that your agent will be less involved pushing , marketing and negotiating the deal.
Some brokerages, like us at GreenLine Real Estate, do more comprehensive marketing of real estate, with video tours, internet ads etc. This usually drives up exposure and helps the Sellers.
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Books, Audios, Videos, and DVDs and Magazines
Over 13,000 board books, chapter books, picture books, fiction,
non-fiction, biographies, reference, young adult, and high school.
Classics and current titles are available for check out. If patrons
cannot find what they are looking for, we offer Interlibrary Loan
services at no charge. Muse, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Odyssey,
Cobblestone, Kids Discover, Zoobooks, AND Homeschooling are some of the magazines that can be read and borrowed from the
Library. If there is a particular article needed, we can always
help you look it up on MARVEL!
Special workshops are designed and offered throughout the year.
For upcoming workshops, please call the Library. Registration is
usually required.
Teen Resources
Children's Literature Web Guide
Books Award Winners: Caldecott Medal
and Sequels Search
Kids' Happenings--Click Here for Summer Schedule of Programs, Dates, and Specific Times
Early Release Wednesdays - Come Read to a Dog!, Lego Club, Book Club, Painting with Miss Heidy.
Classroom Visits with Area Schools
Summer Reading Program and Events
School Vacation Crafts
Outreach to Daycare Centers and Preschools
Read Across America
Magic Shows and Other Special Events
Young Adults and Teen Stuff
Chess, Cribbage, BoardGame, and Lego Clubs
We also have a special parenting collection which includes videos,
magazines, and books to help with questions on raising children.