September 22
2014 WOMEN’S MEMOIR COMPETITION

www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/ncomp_active.php

We’re looking for memoirs written by previously unpublished women memoirists. Submissions must be in prose, and narrate actual events in your life.

1st Prize: £5,000
Five other finalists will be offered free professional feedback by The Literary Consultancy

Judging Panel:
To be confirmed.

The six shortlisted authors will be invited to meet literary agents and editors at a special networking event in London.

Closing date: 22 September 2014
Please note: To constitute a novel, your book must total at least 50,000 words.

Please make sure you read the competition rules before entering.

www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/ncomp_active.php

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And still time to enter:

June 16

MSLEXIA POETRY COMPETITION

1st Prize: £2000 + accommodation (1 week) at Cove Park writing retreat

+ mentoring afternoon with Poetry Review editor

(NB, winner responsible for other expenses eg travel)

Special new prize: £1000: best poem by previously unpublished woman poet.

£400, £200; £25 x 17 runners up.

Winning poems published in Mslexia.

Winners contacted August.

Fee: £7 for up to three poems. Any length.

Judge: Wendy Cope

Novel Competition, deadline, September 23.

Enclose sheet with contact details. NB: no translations.

Online entry or

SEND TO: Mslexia Publications Limited, Freepost NEA5566,

Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1BR

0191 204 8860

poetry@mslexia.co.uk www.mslexia.co.uk/poetrycompetition

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June 16

MSLEXIA PAMPHLET COMPETITION 2014

Prize: publication by Seren Books + £250 + 25 copies of the pamphlet

+ 10% royalties on all subsequent sales

One or more poems from the pamphlet published in Mslexia.

Winner contacted November

Fee: £20 per collection of 20-24 pages of 18-20 poems.

Judge: Amy Wack, poetry editor at Seren Books.

Enclose TWO sheets with pamphlet title and poems: one with contact details and one without. NB: no translations.

Online entry or

SEND TO: Mslexia Publications Limited, Freepost NEA5566,

Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1BR

0191 233 3860

poetry@mslexia.demon.co.uk www.mslexia.co.uk/pamphletcompetition