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Literary Quarterly Short Story Competition (January, 2011). SENTINEL CHAMPIONS DISCOUNTED ENTRY DETAILS Please note: The entry
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and then return to this page and enter the competition as
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return to this page, and follow the entry guidelines below.
Competition Details
Subject: Short Stories may be on any subject or style
and MUST NOT have been previously published, posted to a
website or blog. Stories posted to members-only writing
groups for workshop purposes as part of the creative process
are not deemed to have been previously published.
Length: Maximum 1,500 words per story.
Entry Fees: £4.25 per story, £7.65 for 2 stories or
£10.20 for 3 stories.
First Prize: £150.00
Second Prize: £60.00
Third Prize: £40.00
First Publication: The top three short stories will receive
first publication in Sentinel Champions – Selected Poems &
Short Stories from the Sentinel Literary Quarterly Writing
Competition Series. (This is a print magazine) A total of 6
stories from this competition will be published in Sentinel
Champions.
Entries Deadline: 7th January 2011
Results due: 31st January 2011 announced in Sentinel
Literary Quarterly magazine at http://www.sentinelquarterly.com
Judge: Amanda Sington-Williams
Competition Administration: Sentinel Poetry Movement
ENTER BY POST OR ONLINE
POSTAL ENTRIES
Short Stories must be in English Language and typed.
Author’s name and address or any other identifying mark MUST
NOTappear on any of your story pages.
PRINT your Name, Postal Address, E-mail Address, Subscriber ID and if you wish, Telephone number on a
plain sheet of paper and place the paper in a sealed
envelope.
Write "SLQ STORY JAN 2011" followed by the Title(s) of your
Short Story(ies) on the back of the envelope.
Make cheques or Postal Orders (in GB£ only) payable to
SENTINEL POETRY MOVEMENT.
Send your Short Stories, the envelope with your name inside,
and your entry fee to:
Sentinel Poetry Movement
Unit 136
113 – 115 George Lane
London
E18 1AB
United Kingdom
ONLINE ENTRIES*
International/Online entrants may enter by e-mail and pay
entry fees by Paypal. To enter by this method please follow
these steps:
1. Select the option that matches your entry preference from
the paypal drop-down button below and make the applicable
payment.
2. After making your payment, you will be given a
Transaction ID or Receipt Number by Paypal. Make a note of
the Transaction ID.
3. Submit your short stories and a cover note with your
Name, Postal Address, Subscriber ID, Optional
Telephone Number and Titles of your stories to [email protected] as a Word or rtf attachment. In the
subject line, type SLQ STORY JAN 2011 Followed by your
Transaction ID.
4. You will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of stories
within 48 hours. Terms & Conditions/Privacy Policy: You may enter as many short stories as
you wish with the appropriate entry fees. If you win one of the prizes in this
quarter’s competition, you will NOT be prohibited from entering next
quarter’s competition. The judges read the stories without
any indication of the identity of the authors. If the same author
wins more than one prize, in the interest of fairness we WILL award
it. The decision of the judge is final,
and no communication will be entered into. If on the advice of the judge, the
quality of entries is too low to produce worthy prize winners, or
any other legitimate reason beyond our control arises which may
affect a fair completion or conduct of the competition, we reserve
the right to cancel the competition and refund all entry fees
immediately by the same method we have been paid. If you would like an acknowledgement
of postal entries, please enclose an SAE marked "acknowledgement". The Judge’s Report will be published
in Sentinel Literary Quarterly on 31 January 2011. This publication
is online, www.sentinelquarterly.com if you would like to receive the
Judges’ Report in the post, please enclose an SAE marked "Judges’
Report". All prize winners will be notified by
post or e-mail within 7 days of the announcement of the results.
These notifications will be accompanied with a prize claim invoice. By entering this competition you
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be deemed personal information. These will be processed according to
the data protection act 1998. We will never pass on any detail you
provide in the course of entering this competition to a third party
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that we may contact you by e-mail or post via our newsletter with
the results of the competition, the adjudicator’s reports and
information on future competitions. You may unsubscribe from the
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* Online entries must be received by midnight on the 7th January
2011. Postal entries must be post-marked by 7th January 2011. E&OE | SLQ
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Amanda Sington-Williams writes short stories and novels.
She also teaches novel writing in Brighton. Her short stories have been
published in magazines and anthologies and she has recently signed a
contract with Ether Books who will be publishing six of her short
stories at the end of November 2011. She is the Resident Fiction Editor,
Sentinel Annual Literary Anthology (#1 due out on December 1st 2010.)
Her first novel, The Eloquence of Desire , was published in June 2010 by
Sparkling Books. She won an award for this novel from The Royal Literary
Fund. Amanda has an MA in Creative Writing and Authorship from Sussex
University.
www.amandasingtonwilliams.co.uk
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