Lightship First Chapter Prize 2013
Closes on
1 Jul 2013
The winner will receive expert mentoring from M.J. Hyland, David Miller of Rogers, Coleridge & White, and Alessandro Gallenzi of Alma Books, to write their novel.
Lightship Poetry Prize 2013
Judge:
David Wheatley
Closes on
1 Jul 2013
1st Prize: £1,000 / US$1600* The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship Anthology 3.
Lightship First Poetry Book Prize 2013
Closes on
30 Jun 2013
Are you an aspiring poet who wants to write a full collection of poems and get published?
Lightship Short Memoir Prize 2013
Judge:
Rachel Cusk
Closes on
30 Jun 2013
1st Prize: £1000 / US$1600*
The inaugural Lightship Short Memoir Competition will be judged by Rachel Cusk. The winning entry will receive £1,000 and be published in the Lightship Anthology.?..
The inaugural Lightship Short Memoir Competition will be judged by Rachel Cusk. The winning entry will receive £1,000 and be published in the Lightship Anthology.?..
Lightship One Page Prize 2013
Judge:
Calum Kerr
Closes on
30 Jun 2013
The One Page Flash Fiction Prize - Winner - £250. Top 10 One Page Stories published in Lightship Anthology 3 (by Alma Books).
Lightship First Novel Prize 2014
Opens on 1 Jul 2013
Closes on
31 Jan 2014
Have you written a literary or genre novel? Enter the beginning of it into Lightship’s First Novel Prize for a chance to win a publishing contract with Alma Books (Winner of the Bookseller’s Independent Publisher of the Year Award, 2013).
Lightship First Act Prize 2013
Closes on
30 Sep 2013
Are you an aspiring playwright? Do you have a full length play in you? Write the first act and a synopsis and enter Lightship Publishing’s latest competition, First Act, for a chance to win the dream prize of every aspiring dramatist.
Lightship Short Story Prize 2013
Judge:
Tessa Hadley
Closes on
30 Jun 2013
1st Prize: £1000 / US$1600*
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing and Alma Books in October 2014...
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing and Alma Books in October 2014...
Lightship Flash Fiction Prize 2013
Judge:
Etgar Keret
Closes on
30 Jun 2013
1st Prize: £500 / US$800*
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship paperback anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing Ltd and Alma Books...
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship paperback anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing Ltd and Alma Books...
Andrew Crumey
Our Short Story Competition Judge.
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Andrew Crumey won the Northern Rock Foundation Writers Award for his most recent novel Sputnik Caledonia, which was also shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Scottish Book of the Year. His other novels include Mobius Dick (a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize) and Mr Mee (longlisted for the Booker Prize and IMPAC Award, winner of a Scottish Arts Council book award).
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He was literary editor of Scotland On Sunday from 2000 to 2006, and has written for the Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, Financial Times and other newspapers. He has been a Distinguished Fellow of Durham Institute of Advanced Study, and is lecturer in creative writing at Newcastle University.
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