The competition is for original, unpublished, fictional stories,
poems or dramatic dialogues written in English with a maximum of 500
words. The theme of "Locked" can be set in any place or time.
Entrants must be 16 years of age or over and live in the UK.
Entries should not have been short-listed in or won any other
writing competitions. You may submit as many entries as you wish,
each entry accompanied by the fee outlined below.
Submitting Your Entry: Given the presence of COVID-19, we will
accept only online submissions. They must be double-spaced on
numbered pages. The title, author's name, email and postal address,
telephone number and word count should appear on the cover page.
Only the title should appear in a footer at the bottom of each page.
Submissions should be sent by email attachment as Word documents or
PDFs. The author's name and the title of the work should appear in
the subject line of the email, which you should send to
yorkamnestywritingcompetition@gmail.com
Final Submission Date: 31 March 2021. Winner to be notified on 15
May 2021.
Judge: Salley Vickers. We will short-list submissions to 10 top
entries before a final round is judged by Salley Vickers, Sunday
Times best-selling author of The Librarian and, most
recently, Grandmothers.
The winning writer will receive £50.00 and the top ten finalists
will receive signed copies of Grandmothers. We will publish
the top 5 entries on our website. Depending upon circustances at the
time, we will also hold an online event featuring these entries.
UPDATE: Early in May 2021 we will publish the top entries on our new website - not this one.
Entry Fee: waged £5.00/unwaged £3.00. We (the York local group of
Amnesty International UK) will use all competition proceeds,
including monies donated above the entry fee, to fund our human
rights campaigning activities. We are affiliated to the Amnesty
International United Kingdom Section, a company limited by
guarantee registered in England and Wales (01735872). Registered
office 17-25 New Inn Yard London EC2A 3EA.
How to Pay:
Pay your entry fee into our bank account.
The account
number is 41303024, the sort code is 56 00 70 and the account is
Amnesty International York Group.
So that we can match your
payment to your entry, please specify your surname (as it appears
on your entry) and the word "Locked" as a reference for your
payment.
Enquiries to:
yorkamnestywritingcompetition@gmail.com
We reserve the right to publish written entries and/or audio
recordings.
