Cinnamon Press: Spring Competition round up.

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COMPETITIONS BULLETIN

WANT TO WIN? NEED THE KNOW HOW? THIS IS A MUST HAVE, WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLICATION AS WELL AS PRIZES:

Listings plus news items and information about markets and outlets for all kinds of writing.

Are you resolved to get off to a good start to this year by making a name for yourself and your writing.

The prestige of the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for Short Stories and the Crème de la Crime Search 2007. Encourage children to write, and enter the Christopher Tower or the Browning Society Prizes.

Maybe too much competition putting you off, as it were? OK, you have to enter into it to win, and sticking to the rules improves the odds no end. Most judges will tell you, around 50 per cent of entries get disqualified straight off.

Details of around 250,000 pounds in prize money each issue, 50 plus competitions for poetry, around 40 for short stories. Plus collections, anthologies, playwriting, non fiction, books etc Only £2.50; £15 for 6 pa.

Cheques payable to Carole Baldock: 17 Greenhow Avenue, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 5EL carolebaldock@hotmail.com