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Running Late Writing Competition

1st Prize: £200.00

2nd Prize: £150.00

3rd Prize: £100.00

4th Prize: £75.00

5th Prize: The Busy Writer Course

6th Prize: Premier1 Membership x 3 months

Closing date: December 1st 2011

Entry fee: £3.50

Fancy winning yourself an early Christmas present? How does our top prize of £200 sound? All you have to do to win any of our fantastic writing competition prizes is to write a story relating to our theme ‘Running Late’. How you interpret the theme is entirely up to you but we are looking for well-written, creative entries where the story is bought to life by your story-telling skills.

You have 1500 words (excluding the title) but do make sure that you adhere to the wordcount.

All entries must be original and previously unpublished.

Entries must be written in English but we welcome submissions from writers worldwide.

We prefer submissions to be made via email (within the body of the email) to [email protected] Please write the competition title i.e. Running Late Competition in the subject line.

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