Competitions
Cinnamon Press – from Writing Awards to Mini-competitions
Cinnamon Press has a range of competitions to help writers establish a writing profile. You can find out about our bi-annual writing awards for novelists, short story writers and poets by scrolling down or check out our new programme of mini-competitions below and you can view the work of mini competition winners here
Mini-competition 4: May 31st 2012: A Letter to…
In addition to our major competitions, the mini- competitions are a great way to try out short pieces of work. The Snow and Ice in Verse competition closed at the end of February and we will be in touch with winners and runners up in the next few weeks.
The theme of the next mini competition is ‘a letter to…’. Send your fictional letter that tells a story of up to 1,000 words. Just £3 to enter – the winner and up to three runners up will be published on the website and the winning ‘letter’ included in our next anthology.
The winners will hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, May 31st 2012.
Guidelines
- Entries must be submitted electronically – send as an email attachments – please ensure you have up to date virus protection and send as a .doc or .docx or .rtf file or a pages file.
- In the body of the email please put your contact details and a short bio.
- Deadline for submissions – 31st May 2012.
- Entry is £3 per entry or £10 for 4 entries
- Please pay online at www.cinnamonpress.com/using PayPal or make cheques payable to ‘Cinnamon Press’ Cinnamon Press Novel Writing Award, Meirion House, Glan yr afon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 3SU
- Work will not be returned, so please keep a copy.
- Send a copy of your entry to both: jan@cinnamonpress.com and rowan@cinnamonpress.com
- Results will be announced in the newsletter, on the Cinnamon Face Book page and on the website by mid April. The winner and runners up will also be emailed.
- All enquiries: jan@cinnamonpress.com
Cinnamon Press Writing Awards
Cinnamon Press competitions offer writers in different genres excellent publication opportunities. We run each of the competitions twice a year with closing dates of June 30th and November 30th in 2012.
Poetry Collection Award £100
The aim of this award is to provide a platform for new voices in poetry.
The winning author has his/her poetry collection published with Cinnamon Press and receives a prize of £100. We also publish an anthology of the best poems submitted and entry includes a copy of the winners’ anthology. We have commissioned several other collections as a result of being short-listed.
Short Story Award: £100
The competition is open to new and published authors.
The first prize for a story between 2,000 and 4,000 words is £100 & publication. Up to ten runners up stories’ are also published in the winners’ anthology. Entry includes a copy of the winners’ anthology.
Novel/Novella Writing Award £400
The aim of this award is to encourage new authors, enabling debut novelists/novella writers to achieve a first publication in this genre. The winning author has his/her first novel published by Cinnamon Press and receives a prize of £400. The four runners up also receive a full appraisal of their novel. We have also commissioned other novels as a result of short-listing in the competition.
Guidelines for all Genres
- Entrants for the novel/novella and poetry categories should not previously have had a novel/novella or full poetry collection published. Short story writers may have had stories, but not a single author collection published.
- Entries may be made by post or submitted electronically – send as two email attachments – one with the work and the other with contact details – please ensure you have up to date virus protection and send as a .doc or .docx or .rtf file.
- Submit the first ten thousand words of your novel/novella or 10 poems up to 40 lines (unpublished) or story of 2,000-4,000 words (unpublished) in a clear type script, double spaced for prose.
- Please mark each sheet with a nom de plume and working title in the header.
- Do not put any other identification on the work, but enclose a separate sheet with name, address, email contact & nom de plume and titles of poems/working title.
- Next deadline for submissions – 30th June 2012.
- Entry is £16 per entry for all categories (this includes a copy of the winners anthology for the poet and short story categories, worth £8.99)
- Please make cheques payable to ‘Cinnamon Press’ or you can pay online in a range of currencies using PayPal
- Work will not be returned, so please keep a copy.
- Send your work to: Cinnamon Press Novel Writing Award, Meirion House, Glan yr afon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 3SU or to jan@cinnamonpress.com
- Results will be sent to everyone who includes a sae or valid email by October (for June competitions) or March (for November competitions)
- All enquiries: jan@cinnamonpress.com
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