Literary Lightbox

‪“Write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page.” - Annie Proulx

‪The Grindstone Literary International Novel Prize will award the winner £1,000. The shortlist will be judged by Emma Finn of the C+W Literary Agency. Enter 3,000 words from the opening of your novel by 28th September: https://www.grindstoneliterary.com/compet itions

‪The Grindstone Literary International Novel Prize will award the winner £1,000. The shortlist will be judged by Emma Finn of the C+W Literary Agency. Enter 3,000 words from the opening of your novel by 28th September: https://www.grindstoneliterary.com/compet itions

‪“Reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” - Annie Proulx http://www.literarylightbox.com

‪The latest Retreat West themed flash fiction competition is open until 30th September. Submit stories of up to 500 words with a ‘protest’ theme for a chance to win £200 and publication online: http://www.retreatwest.co.uk/compet…/qu arterly-themed-flash/

‪“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.” - Joss Whedon http://www.literarylightbox.com‬

‪The Short Story Project will award a range of prizes up to $5,000 for twenty short stories entered. The top five writers will also be featured by the project. The deadline is 30th September: https://www.shortstoryproject.com/contest /

‪“On the good writing days nothing else matters.” - Neil Gaiman http://www.literarylightbox.com

Would you like the opportunity to be paid a fee to participate in a Channel 4 screenwriting course and complete two drafts of a one-hour script? Apply, for free, by 28th September: http://script-consultant.co.uk/channel-4- script-submit/

‪“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.” - Beatrix Potter http://www.literarylightbox.com

‪Two prizes – £10,000 and £5,000 – will be awarded to two writers in the Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction to support them with completing their first commissioned works. Apply by 19th September: https://rsliterature.org/…/rsl-giles-st -aubyn-awards-for-n…/

‪“A word after a word after a word is power.” - Margaret Atwood http://www.literarylightbox.com

‪HURRY! The international Manchester Writing Prizes close at 5pm (UK time) today. There is £10,000 to be won in both the short story and poetry categories: https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition /

‪“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” - W. Somerset Maugham http://www.literarylightbox.com

‪Do you write novels, short stories, flash fiction, poetry or screenplays? Here’s a list of this month’s best competitions and opportunities open to writers worldwide: http://www.literarylightbox.com/writing-s ept2018/

‪“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” - Stephen King http://www.literarylightbox.com

‪Literary agency, Greene and Heaton has launched The Greene Door Project, an open submissions initiative for writers from BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) backgrounds, running from 17th September to 31st October 2018: http://greeneheaton.co.uk/the-greene-door -project/

‪“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” - Anne Frank http://www.literarylightbox.com