Writing Magazine competition programme
Writers' News competition programme

Writers' News and Writing Magazine have exciting competition programmes, with lots of prizes and extra opportunities for short story and poetry winners to be published, either in print or online.

Our WN/WM programme has been designed so all main prizewinners being published within five to six months of a competition being announced, with a timetable convenient for entries from overseas.

This year, we are delighted to continue the work of the DSJT Charitable Trust, in presenting the Annual Self-Publishing Award, with a £1,000 first prize, and the Annual Anthology Trophy, so if you're a member of a writers' circle, make sure your group enters this prestigious competition.

There are year-round money-saving benefits for Writers' News subscribers, with an entry fee of £2. Remember, all winning entries will be published.

Writing Magazine short story and poetry entries are £4, with subscribers paying just £3. Full competition rules appear in each issue of Writing Magazine and Writers' News.

The full Writers' News/Writing Magazine 2008 programme – sometimes offering first, second and third places in both short story and poetry categories – with its imaginative range of subjects to get the writing juices flowing, appear here and here.

There you will see a fascinating selection of competitions, based on both traditional themes and contemporary life. The choice is yours: draw your ideas from past times, or use your talents to dwell on what is offered by present day experiences or observations.

The list of short story subjects represents a collection of situations and subjects from which to create the heroes, villains, dreamers, winners, losers, humdrum nobodies, high-fliers... or whichever characters you create to populate your tales.

All first prize-winning short stories will be published in Writers' News or Writing Magazine as appropriate; second and third prize-winning stories will be published on this website; selected runners-up may also appear on our website.

First and second-placed poems will be published in Writers' News or Writing Magazine as appropriate; they, and selected runners-up may also be published on this website.

Do join in. Enjoy the experience... and good luck to everyone.