Welcome to Meridian Writing - Short story writing competitions
At Meridian Writing we run quarterly short story writing competitions and are looking for well written, thoughtfully constructed and entertaining short stories in any genre or theme - the most important elements are that the stories are complete with well-rounded characters, and have a distinctive story arc.
The art of the Short Story is, thankfully, back on a resurgence. For too long it had been considered a poor relative of the novel, but those who know better realize that to construct a well-paced, believable and entertaining story in a comparatively small number of words is an art form in its own right. When one is able to produce excellent stories in a few thousand words it is but a strop on which we can all hone our novel writing abilities.
We are not biased against any genre and welcome hard-core sci-fi as much as historical fiction or a noir thriller - it's the quality of the writing that counts. We all have to start somewhere and we would love to find the next JK, Philip Pullman or Minette Walters.
We suggest that you don't leave entering a competition too close to a deadline, but leave yourself plenty of time to work on a story and never send in your first draft! Write a story, put it away for a while then revise it - you will generally see where improvements can be made straight away. Please pay full attention to our Entry Requirements, as any entries which do not comply will be rejected and no monies returned.
Good luck, and we look forward to reading your stories soon.
Latest News
The office here at Meridian Towers will be closed from Thursday 10th and open again on Monday 14th. Anyone sending entries by email will not get a confirmation receipt until sometime on Monday at the earliest.
The three winning stories for our latest competition (spring) are:
1st Place - Still Clinging ... by Cait Atherton 2nd Place - Spring Menu by Sharon Birch 3rd Place - Ice Walls by Kelly Matsuura
All three winning stories are now in the '2012' page of Winning Stories.
Our 'summer' competition runs to 30th June.
Happy writing ...
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Our friends over at S@ve As Writers' Group are running the Dickens' Bicentenary Writing Competition. Entries are invited for short works of poetry or prose inspired, broadly or otherwise, by any character from a Charles Dickens novel.
The competition is open to all writers and international submissions are welcome.
The competition has a deadline of August 15th, 2012.
We're discussing the possibility of adding extra elements to our range of services here, such as - a Distance Learning programme; a regular newsletter letting you know about our competitions etc and offering writing tips/suggestions; and, a short story mentoring scheme where we would offer a number of edits/critiques. Nothing has been decided yet but we'd love to know your thoughts and maybe even suggestions as to what you'd like to see offered.
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