Peter Barry Short Story Competition Submission Guidelines
Thursday, 6th October 2011
Categories:
Miscellaneous
- The competition is open to all aged 18 or over, regardless of nationality or country of residence.
- Entries must be in English.
- Entries must be entirely your own work and never previously published or broadcast, online or offline.
- One entry per person only. Subsequent entries, including revisions, will be omitted from the competition and will not be read.
- Entries must be submitted in Microsoft Word or RTF (.rtf) format and emailed as an attachment to movingstories@peterbarry.co.uk with a cover email providing your contact details.
- No contact details must be written anywhere on the story. Entries will be numbered and cross-referenced with your contact details. After the anonymous reading and selections, your name and details will be retrieved if your entry has been successful.
- Word limit is 2,000.
- Entries must – directly or indirectly – reflect the theme ‘moving home’.
- The closing date for entries is midnight on Monday, 12th December 2011. Entries will not be accepted after that date.
- Employees of Peter Barry and their families are excluded from entering.
- We will not enter into any correspondence about entries or results or cannot provide any feedback on individual entries.
- We will reduce the entries to a short list of 12 from which the winner will be chosen anonymously by this year’s judge Anne Aylor. The Judge’s decision is final.
- The winner, runners-up and remaining shortlisted entries will be announced online and by email to the writers concerned.
- The prizes are: 1st place: £750 2nd place: 2 x £125 (two runners-up)
- The winner, 2 runners up and 9 remaining shortlisted entries will be published on the Peter Barry website. By submitting an entry you grant Peter Barry the right to publish your story on www.peterbarry.co.uk.
- Worldwide copyright on each entry remains with its author.
By submitting an entry you agree to accept these rules in full.
Author: Justin Burns