COMPETITIONS
​Calling all writers and aspiring writers!
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Our writing competitions are open to anyone who has a story to tell. We are a platform that celebrates and supports the literary arts, so our competitions are designed to promote new work and writers, while offering the winners valuable support. Submit your best work today and see where your writing can take you!
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All our competitions are judged by experts in their field who published novelists, playwrights and poets and/or Postgraduates in the literary arts.
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WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON OUR SYSTEMS AND MIGRATING PAST STORIES FROM TORTIVE THEATRE.
FIRST STAGE
We are currently developing a new writing festival in conjunction with the Berwick Creative and Cultural Zone. This will be open to international writers but will have specific categories for writers in Berwick-upon-Tweed and Northumberland.
More information will be coming in Autumn 2024
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Our short story competition that originally started as 'Chiasmus'. We're currently looking at bringing this back to life and building on some of the incredible work we were lucky enough to read previously.
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More information coming soon.
#FLASHFICTION101
JANUARY/FEBURARY 2024
FACTS & FIGURES
Number of Entries Received: 56
Total Entry Fees (minus charges): £74.34
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TOTAL PRIZE FUND: £37.17
Winning Entry
An Unexpected Benefit of Dog Walking
by Chris Robinson
Runners Up
A Family Affair by Karen Silverthorne
Fix It by Anne-Marie Kofoed
Shortlisted Entries
Dust to Dust by Catriona Prodger
A Question of Free Will by
Brewster Road by Tasha Rothlisberger
For Better of Worse by David Mann
Music to my Ears by Julian Cadman
Brighter Aspects of the Apocalypse by Christopher Robinson
The End by Katie McGee
A Kitchen Story by Lisa H. Owens
Figuratively Speaking by Peter Burr
Whispers in the Dark by Julie Turland
#FLASHFICTION101
DECEMBER 2024
FACTS & FIGURES
Number of Entries Received: 34
Total Entry Fees (minus charges): £46.17
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TOTAL PRIZE FUND: £23.08
Winning Entry
An Enticing Souvenir by Lisa H. Owens
Runners Up
Karl's Christmas Wish by Megan Louise Illsley
Just Do It by Douglas Oramis
Shortlisted Entries
Grotto Times are Approximate by Kate Diamond
A December Eve by Neal Sandwell
No Angel by Neal Sandwell
The Pergola by Eileen Munroe
Shaun of the Sled by Emily Knight
Home is a State of Mind by Salena Casha
Kindness on a Cold Night by Martin Barker
Christmas Lunch by Julie Christie
Grandfather Christmas by David Rout
Staff Christmas Party by Lee Irving
#FLASHFICTION101
NOVEMBER 2024
FACTS & FIGURES
Number of Entries Received: 84
Total Entry Fees (minus charges): £114.50
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TOTAL PRIZE FUND: £57.25
Winning Entry
Trap-door Spider by Al Airone
Runners Up
Maintaining Standards by Sarah Kennedy
Easily torn, not easily mended by Chris Robinson
Shortlisted Entries
Girl’s Best Friend by Sharika Nair
Memento Mori by Molly Workman
Noises in the Dark by Margaret Gallagher
A Small Mercy by Holly Freeborn
I found love in the NHS Same Day Emergency Care Department by J.M McKenzie
A Journey to Love by J.M McKenzie
The Best Laid Plans by Chris Robinson
The Deciding Vote by Louisa Davison
Tom’s Painting by Joy Davenport
Running on Empty by Phillip Sheahan
#FLASHFICTION101
OCTOBER 2024
FACTS & FIGURES
Number of Entries Received: 73
Total Entry Fees (minus charges): £90.38
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TOTAL PRIZE FUND: £45.19
Winning Entry
A Letter from a Lightkeeper by Genevieve Flintham
Runners Up
Delicious by Megan Illsley
Unwelcome Touch by Martin Barker
Shortlisted Entries
Consumed by Love by Glyn Matthews
The Young Swordmaster's Vendetta by Sahibzada Zumeran
Cooking by Andrea Murphy
Tell me a Story Daddy by Andrea Murphy
Labour of Love by Glyn Matthews
No Escape by Eileen Munro
Breathless by Neal Sandwell
Home Cooked by Emily Knight
Christmas Rental by John Macdonald
Love at Last Sight by Paul Hardwick
#FLASHFICTION101
SEPTEMBER 2024
FACTS & FIGURES
Number of Entries Received: 118
Total Entry Fees (minus charges): £170.41
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TOTAL PRIZE FUND: £85.20
Winning Entry
Wish You Were Here by Lee Irving
Runners Up
Sun Dried and Succulent by Gail Warrick-Cox
Science by Marilisa Valtazanou
Shortlisted Entries
The Wrong Guide by Rebecca Brinkman
The Milk of Human Kindness by Glenys Adams
Miss Match by Pete Pitman
But all Little Girls go to Ballet Class by Elizabeth Meyer
An Old Woman's Fear of the Unknown by Mel Fawcett
Life in Your Hands by Birgit K. Josefine Bergman
Grandmother Wants Everything Done Chop Chop by Ian Johnson
Room with a View by Julian Cadman
Death of Hollow Man by Charlie Kitching
Not Exactly the Hole Story by Tania Kremer-Yeatman