Links

A quarterly competition for flash fiction - win up to £500 for short stories of up to 500 words. 

StoryFeedback.com - the monthly short story contest site

A bi-monthly competition for short stories in any genre. Win £100, £50 or £25. Also offer a critique and edit service.

Excellent website, great idea... Listen online to short stories or download them for your iPod/GooglePhone/mp3 player - listen here, listen everywhere, as they succinctly put it!

The place for aspiring writers. Competitions, resources, articles, markets, links and more.

Illustration from 'A Winter's Tale' in Dark Tales: Volume 10

Discuss Dark Tales and anything else you like (as long as it's connected with fiction, horror or sci-fi in some way of course!):

Writing West Midlands is the Literature Development Agency for the West Midlands. We currently manage Write On! (our writing education programme), the Birmingham Book Festival (our festival and year-round events programme) and The Writers' Toolkit (our writer-networking programme). We are developing other projects and initiatives with and for writers in the West Midlands, including Ears Wide Open, an audio commissioning programme being run jointly with Theatre Writing Partnership in the East Midlands.

Kudos - for people who prize writing

For people who prize writing.

Lots of writing contests here.

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