a week that lasts for years

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Open to any previously unpublished writer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.
pic © 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