Writers-Wheel-Magazine-Issue-6-Midsummer-2015

Short StoriesThe High Sheriff's Cheshire Prize forLiterature 2015Prizes: The prize-winner will receive£2000 and additional prize money of£750 will be awarded and the best entrieswill be published.Entry fee: Free.Further info: The 2015 Cheshire Prizefor Literature is for a previously unpublishedshort story. The entry shouldnot exceed 1500 words. The Competitionis open to residents of Cheshire,Warrington, Wirral and Halton includingthose who have ever lived orworked in the area. The entry shouldnot exceed 1500 words.Closing date: 1st September, 2015.Click here for more informationManchester Fiction and Poetry PrizesPrizes: £10,000 plus publication onlineand in print in each category.Entry fee: £17.50.Short stories up to 2,500 words.Closing date: 25th September 2015.Click here for more informationReading Room Short Story CompetitionPrize: £50, publication, 5 copies ofbook, runners up publication and 5copies of the book.Entry fee £4 per story or 3 stories for£10.Any story under 2,000 words, anytheme, any genre.Closing date: 20th October, 2015.Click here for more informationPoetryNational Literacy Trust partnership withBloomsbury PublishingPrizes: A brand new iPad; £250 of Bloomsburytitles; a framed copy of the finished posterfeaturing your poem; Exclusive celebrationevent to reveal the prize-winner. Two runnersupwill also be chosen, and all short-listed poetswill be invited to the celebration event.Entry fee: £8 per entry.Please note this competition is open to allaged 16+.Further details: Entrants must submit a 2 to 16line poem aimed at children and young people,on the themes of reading and/or literatureand based on the themes of reading andliterature.They may be written in any form: limericks,odes, performance poems, haikus and everythingin between!Closing date: 31st August 2015.Click here for more informationManchester Fiction and Poetry PrizesPrizes: £10,000 plus publication online and inprint in each category.Entry fee: £17.50.A portfolio of poetry (3-5, maximum 120lines).Closing date: 25th September, 2015.For more information click here.National Poetry CompetitionPrizes: First Prize: £5000; Second Prize: £2000;Third Prize: £1000; Seven commendations:£200.Entry fee: £6.50 for the first poem, £3.50thereafter.Further details: Maximum length 40 lines perpoem. The competition is open to anyoneaged 17 or over at the time of entering. Internationalentries are welcome.Closing date: 31st October, 2015.For more information click here.Literary EventsEdinburgh International Book FestivalA festival of open horizons and energisingideas, at the heart of EdinburghUNESCO City of Literature. 17days, 750 events, 800 authors, over40 different countries represented.Bookworms, bibliophiles and internationallyacclaimed authors and thousandsof aspiring writers will descendon Edinburgh. It's massive and wonderful.15– 31 August, 2015 CharlotteSquare Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland.Click here for more informationThe International Agatha ChristieFestivalThe festival takes place in the elegantseaside town of Torquay, in Devon,UK, where the author was born on 15September 1890.11th -20th September, 2015 TorreAbbey.Torquay, Devon, EnglandClick here for more informationUxbridge Literary FestivalWill feature a variety of presentations,readings, discussions, masterclassesand performances with successfulcontemporary writers andlocal writing groups. All events willbe free, albeit ticketed, and held atBrunel University London, the UxbridgeLibrary, Southlands in WestDrayton, and the Great Barn inRuislip.16-18 October 2015 London Boroughof HillingdonWill Self (right), Kate Mosse, DeborahMoggach, Benjamin Zephaniah, LauraBarnett.Click here for more information46