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Family Secrets Writing Competition

May 16, 2012 | By Annette Young | 2 Comments

1st Prize: £150.00

2nd Prize: £100.00

3rd Prize: £75.00

Closing date: 10th July 2012

Entry Fee: £3.00 or FREE to Premier1 Members

Using the photo for inspiration, write a story around the couple and create a family secret. You have only 1200 words excluding the title in which to wow us with your creativity so don’t waste a word. All entries must be in English and be unique and previously unpublished.

We would prefer to receive your entries by email to info@creative-competitor.co.uk

Please add the title of the competition to the subject line and paste your entry into the body of the email.

It can take some while to judge all of the entries that we receive so entry into this competition implies acceptance to this condition.

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Annette Young is the editor of the Creative Competitor and a successful freelance writer. Passionate about the written word, Annette provides writing courses and a professional manuscript critique service to give up and coming writers the help they need to get into print.