Sentinel Literary Quarterly Short Story Competition April 2012

Sentinel Literary Quarterly Short Story Competition

(April 2012)

Closing Date: 5-April-2012

Competition Details

Short Stories may be on any subject or style and MUST NOT have been previously published, or posted on a website or blog. Short Stories posted on members-only writing groups for workshop purposes as part of the creative process are not deemed to have been previously published. Short Stories must also not be under consideration for publication or accepted for publication elsewhere, and may not be simultaneously entered into another competition.

Length: Maximum 1,500 words per story.

Entry Fees: £4.00/1 story, £8.00/2 stories, £10.00/3 stories, £12.00/4 stories.

(You may enter as many Short Stories as you wish – with the appropriate fees.

Prizes: First: £150.00, Second: £75.00, Third: £50.00, Highly Commended: £10 x 3.

First Publication: The three winning Short Stories, and three highly commended Short Stories will receive first publication in Sentinel Champions magazine in print and eBook in November 2012. The authors will each receive a free contributor's copy.

Anniversary Year Giveaway: As part of the celebration to mark 10 years of Sentinel Poetry Movement, 1 entrant to this quarter's short story competition will receive a year's free subscription to Sentinel Champions magazine.

Results due: 30th April, 2012 announced in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine online at: http://sentinelquarterly.com/competitions/results.htm

Judge: KATE HORSLEY, Creative Writing Lecturer, Lancaster University and author of Secrets of the Skin

Competition Administration: Sentinel Poetry Movement

Sentinel Literary Quarterly Short Story Competitions have successfully run every 3 months since January 2010 and have become a regular feature in the international writing competitions environment attracting entries from all over the world.

Kate Horsley

About the judge

Kate Horsley’s poems and short fiction have been published in a number of magazines and anthologies including Storyglossia, Erbacce, Seventh Quarry Magazine, Bliss and Best British Crime Stories and her work has won awards - Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition, Words on the Street and Adoption Matters - and been shortlisted for Asham, Templar, Longworth Editors, Fine Line and Ravenglass Press. She has just finished her second novel, The Strange Heart of Oona Scollay. Kate gained her PhD at Harvard, where she held a one-year lectureship before returning to the UK to take the Creative Writing M.A. at Lancaster. She has taught literature and writing on both sides of the Atlantic. She currently teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University, where she is also the Research Associate for the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research. Visit Kate's website at: www.katehorsley.co.uk

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International/Online entrants may enter by e-mail and pay entry fees securely by Paypal. To enter by this method please follow these steps:

Select the option that matches your entry preference from the paypal drop-down button below and make the applicable payment. After making your payment, you will be given a Transaction ID or Receipt Number by Paypal. Make a note of the Transaction ID.
Submit your Short Stories and a cover note with your Name, E-mail Address, Postal Address, Telephone Number and Titles of your Short Stories to: competitions@sentinelpoetry.org.uk as a Word or rtf attachment. In the subject line, type SLQ SHORT STORY APRIL 2012 Followed by your Transaction ID. You will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of Short Stories within 48 hours.
Your name or any personally identifying marks may not appear on any of your story's pages.
If you are entering more than 1 story, please start every story on a new page.
IMPORTANT: If your payment name is different from your name or pen name, or if somebody is paying for your entry, clearly indicate this in your cover note.
SKY DRIVE: Please avoid using Sky Drive to submit your work unless you know what you are doing. We have so many people submitting multiple files by Sky Drive that all link to single items.

To enter by post, Download Entry Form Here:

PDF Form Download | Word Download

Submit your Short Stories with a Typed Cover Note titled

SLQ SHORT STORY APRIL 2012 The cover note should include your Name, E-mail Address, Postal Address, Telephone Number and Titles of your Short Stories

Send the Entry Form or Cover Note together with your Short Stories and the applicable fees (GB£ cheques or postal orders only) payable to SENTINEL POETRY MOVEMENT to:

Sentinel Poetry Movement
Unit 136
113 – 115 George Lane

South Woodford
London
E18 1AB
United Kingdom

Terms & Conditions/Privacy Policy:

You may enter as many Short Stories as you wish with the applicable entry fees.
If you win one of the prizes in this quarter’s competition, you will NOT be prohibited from entering next quarter’s competition.
Judges read the Short Stories without any indication of the identity of the authors. If the same author wins more than one prize, in the interest of fairness we WILL award it.
The decision of the judge is final, and no communication will be entered into.
If on the advice of the judge, the quality of entries is too low to produce worthy prize winners, or any other legitimate reason beyond our control arises which may affect a fair completion or conduct of the competition, we reserve the right to cancel the competition and refund all entry fees immediately by the same method we have been paid.
We reserve the right to reapportion the prize money if necessary in the interest of continuity as an alternative to cancellation of the competition.
If you would like an acknowledgement of postal entries, please enclose an SAE marked “acknowledgement”.
The Judge’s Report will be published in Sentinel Literary Quarterly on 30th April, 2012. This publication is online, at www.sentinelquarterly.com if you would like to receive the Judges’ Report in the post, please enclose an SAE marked “Judges’ Report SLQ Short Story April 2012”.
All prizewinners will be notified by post or e-mail within 7 days of the announcement of the results. These notifications will be accompanied with a prize claim invoice.
By entering this competition you provide some information such as your address and e-mail address which may be deemed personal information. These will be processed according to the data protection acts1998 and 2002. We will never pass on any detail you provide in the course of entering this competition to a third party and we will never sell your data to anyone for marketing purposes.
By entering this competition you agree that we may contact you by e-mail or post via our newsletter with the results of the competition, the adjudicator’s reports and information on future competitions. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time.
All entries must be received by midnight 05-April-2012. E&OE | SLQ

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