Newcomer Prize Entry can be found here
The deadline for this competition is midnight (UK time) on Wednesday, 31 May 2017. The entry fee is £8 per story. For full terms of entry, please scroll down this page.
After completing the form and submitting your entry, you will be able to make payment by credit card, debit card, or PayPal.
1. About You
Your Full Name Please give your real name, not your pseudonym / pen name. *
Your Pen Name Please give your name as you would like it to appear in the story credit if you win. (Leave blank if it's the same as above.)
Your Email Address *
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Your Full Address Please include the country.
*
Website If you have one.
2. Upload Your Entry
Title of Your Story *
Your story should be in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx).
The document should contain your real name, your pen name (if you use one), the title of the story, and your email address, either in the header or at the top of page 1. The document should be double-spaced, in 12-pt Times New Roman type, on A4 or US Letter sized paper.
Attach Your Story:*
Please check this box to confirm that this story is entirely your own work, and does not contain any material written by anybody else, or copied from elsewhere.*
Please check this box to confirm that you accept the terms of entry below, and that you are eligible to enter.*
Click the button below to send your story. You can make payment on the next page.
Terms of Entry
The competition deadline is midnight (UK time) on Wednesday, 31 May 2017, and the winning stories will be announced in July. The announcement will appear on our website and in our email newsletter.
All stories must be written in English and be entirely the author's own work.
Eligibility (author of entry): To enter, you must be aged 16 or over at the time of entry (there is no upper age limit). You must not have previously published a novel or single-author collection of short stories in paperback, hardback, or other physical format, or have one due for publication before 31 May 2017. (Previous ebook or online-only publications do not restrict eligibility, as long as the actual story being entered has not been published.) Authors previously published by The Fiction Desk are not eligible to enter this competition.
Eligibility (story to be entered): Stories entered for the Newcomer Prize must not have been published elsewhere in print, ebook, online, or any other form. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but should a story be published elsewhere, the author agrees to inform The Fiction Desk Ltd, and the story will be withdrawn from the competition, in which case no refund of the entry fee will be given. Once winners have been announced, the authors of winning stories agree not to publish the stories elsewhere until after they've been published by The Fiction Desk, which will be within twelve months of the closing date of the competition.
The entry fee is £8 per story. All entries must be made through the appropriate form on our website. Any entries for which payment has not been received before 10 June 2017 will be disqualified.
Authors of the winning stories grant The Fiction Desk the non-exclusive right to internationally publish the stories as part of an anthology, in print and ebook editions, including reprints and new editions of that anthology.
There is a first prize of £500, and a second prize of £250. The Fiction Desk Ltd reserves the right to increase the number of prizes and their value, but will not decrease them. All published authors will also receive two copies of the anthology in which their work appears.
Entries must be between 1,000 and 7,000 words in length. Longer or shorter entries will be disqualified.
No refunds will be given in the event of a story being withdrawn by the author, or disqualified for breach of the rules.
Winners published in the anthology will also be eligible for entry to the Fiction Desk writer's award for that volume, subject to the terms applied to other stories in the same volume.
Multiple entries are allowed, but to ensure a varied selection of winners, no author may receive a prize for more than one story.
The judge's decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into. The judge is unable to comment on individual entries. The Fiction Desk Ltd reserves the right to change judges or appoint new ones at any time.
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