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Writing
Competitions for Swanwick 2008
1.
The Jill Dick Memorial Competition
A special one-off competition for the School's Diamond Anniversary year
Category: Non-fiction
Subject: Anniversary
Maximum words: 1,200
First prize: free place to the value of £380 at the Diamond Anniversary
of the Writers' Summer School, Swanwick, 9-15 August 2008 (funded by
the Jill Dick Memorial Fund in association with the Writers' Summer
School and Writers' News/Writing Magazine).
No entry fee
Closing date: 8th May 2008
2. The Writers Summer School
Annual Short Story Competition
Open to any previously unpublished writer
Category: short stories of up to 1,000 words on any subject or theme
First prize: free place to the value of £380 at the Diamond Anniversary
of the Writers' Summer School, Swanwick, 9-15 August 2008 (funded by
the Writers' Summer School in association with Writers' News/Writing
Magazine).
Trophies and runners-up prizes donated by Writers' News/Writing
Magazine.
Entry fee: £2.00
Closing date: 8th May 2008
3. The Writers Summer School
Annual Poetry Competition
Open to anyone who has earned less than £1,000 from poetry writing
in the last two years
Category: any form
Theme: Diamonds
Maximum lines: 32
First prize: free place to the value of £380 at the Diamond Anniversary
of the Writers' Summer School, Swanwick, 9-15 August 2008 (funded by
Writers' News/Writing Magazine in association with the Writers'
Summer School).
Trophies and runners-up prizes donated by Writers' News/Writing
Magazine.
Entry fee: £2.00
Closing date: 8th May 2008
4. Writers
Summer School Annual Children's Writing Competition
Open to anyone who has earned less than £5,000 from children's
writing in the last two years
Category: the first 1,000 words of a novel aimed at readers aged anywhere
in the age range of 11 to 16 years.
First prize: free place to the value of £380 at the Diamond Anniversary
of the Writers' Summer School, Swanwick, 9-15 August 2008 (funded by
the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, in association with the Writers'
Summer School and Writers' News/Writing Magazine.
Trophies and runners-up prizes donated by Writers' News/Writing
Magazine.
Entry fee: £2.00
Closing date: 8th May 2008
All
entries to be sent to: Fiona Berry, Swanwick Competitions, Warners Group
Publications, West Street, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH.

The
winners of the three writing competitions 2007 were:
Swanwick
Children’s Writing
Competition
Margaret
Bulleyment, Oxfordshire, for Chime Child.
Swanwick
Poetry Competition
Gwyneth Box, Madrid, Spain, for Hero Worship
Swanwick
Short Story
Mary Rose McCarthy,
Bandon, County Cork, for Ice Cream.
L
to R Margaret
Bulleyment,
Gwyneth Box, Mary
Rose McCarthy.
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© Lois Maddox 2007
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Who won their way to Swanwick 2006

(left to right) Katy Clarke (Swanwick Vice-Chairman); Sheila Corbishley
(Short Story winner); Jan Davison (Writers News); Peter Anderson (Hayes
Centre Manager); Marion Hough (Swanwick Chairman); Maggie Cobbett (Poetry
winner); Lauren Roberts (Writers' News); Frances Gapper (Children's
Story winner); Joyce Reid (Poetry competition runner up)
Congratulations
to the winners and runners-up of the three 'Win your way to Swanwick'
writing competitions, run in 2006 in conjunction with Writers News,
the Writers' Summer School and the Hayes Conference Centre.
For more on the winners see here
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Swanwick 2008 August 09 to August
15
Diamond
Jubilee Year
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