New writing contest offers £250 total prizes for short fiction

A top award of £150 and ten runner-up prizes of £10 are offered for short fiction up to 3000 words in a new writing contest at www.writers-village.org. Winners will be awarded the title ‘Winner, the Writers’ Village Best Writing 2009 Award’, see their work showcased online and receive a frameable certificate.

Any genre of prose fiction may be submitted, including a section of a novel. Entries should not have been published previously in print media at time of submission.

Entry is £5 per item and multiple entries are permitted. The deadline is 31st Dec. 2009.

Judges will include John Yeoman, MPhil, university lecturer in creative writing, author of eight published books of humour and fiction and for forty years a successful commercial writer.

More information: http://www.writers-village.org.

Email: cwriting@btinternet.com.

Address: Village Guild, PO Box 6336, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 6BJ, UK.