WORDS AND
WOMEN ANNUAL NEW WRITING COMPETITION IS OPEN FOR ENTRIES
Deadline
Midnight, 15th November 2017
Offers a
national prize for women over 40 of £1,000 and a month’s writing residency
provided by Hosking Houses Trust and a regional prize (East of England) of £600
and a mentoring session with Jill Dawson of Gold Dust.
The winning
entries will be published online and in a Compendium of Words and Women’s best
entries from the last 4 prize-winning anthologies.
Entries can
be fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction and life-writing on any theme.
2,200 words
Guest
judges: Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, authors of A Secret Sisterhood: The hidden
friendship of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf.
National prize open to women writers over the age of
40. Regional prize open to women writers over the age of 16 living or working in
the East of England.
