Coast to Coast Writing Competitions

The competitions, which have five separate categories, are held monthly throughout the year.

Each month, a winner, along with a minimum of three runners-up from each section, are selected. These finalists will have their work re-read throughout December when the finals take place.

Entries may be either published or unpublished pieces, including work that may have been submitted to other competitions, and be typed or legibly hand-written.

There is an entry fee of 4.50 for each category - a portion of which will benefit various charities.

The five categories are:

a. short stories up to 2,000 words.

b. rhymed poetry - up to fifty lines.

c. free verse-up to fifty lines.

d. anything humorous in poetic or prose form.

e. young writers up to and including seventeen years of age are invited to submit entries for the above categories '“ date of birth essential for this category.(Entrance fees from this category will benefit the East Anglian Children's Hospice).

Winners will receive prizes of book gift vouchers and publication of their work.

Entries should be posted along with an entry fee of 4.50 made payable to Ouse Valley Poetry to: Maurice James (Writing), Flat 1, 9, Wellington Street, Waterloo, Liverpool, L22 8QL.

For further information email Maurice at: [email protected] or call 07780 642 086.