Lightship First Chapter Competition
Closes on
30 Jun 2012
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 Short Story Competition
Judge:
Andrew Crumey
Closes on
30 Jun 2012
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 2013...
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing and Alma Books in October 2013...
Lightship Flash Fiction Competition
Judge:
Vanessa Gebbie
Closes on
30 Jun 2012
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...
Lightship Poetry Competition
Judge:
Sean O'Brien
Closes on
30 Jun 2012
1st Prize: £1000 / US$1600*
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship paperback anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing and Alma Books in 2012...
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship paperback anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing and Alma Books in 2012...
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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