Lightship First Chapter Competition
Lightship Short Story Competition
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
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
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...
Jane Hayward reads The Way to a Man's Heart Live at the Lightship Prize Awards
Roland Watson-Grant reads Sketcher Live at the Lightship Prize Giving Awards
Lightship First Chapter Prize Winner 2010-2011
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Lightship First Chapter Prize
Winner 2010-11 The Flower Nora Brown After graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 2001 Nora worked as an assistant for several high profile individuals in the arts. In 2005 she headed to medical school. It was there, hiding novels in anatomy textbooks, that she discovered her real ambition – to be a writer. A chance encounter with an old school friend in 2010 resulted in a trip to |
Lightship Short Story Prize Winner 2010-2011
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Lightship Short Story Prize
Winner 2010-11 The Way to a Man’s Heart Jane Hayward Jane Hayward’s writing career was launched with a ‘bottom right hand corner’ letter in The Times. Her writing won her lunch with Anita Shreve and a novel pitch at an Art’s Council funded publishing event launched by Spread the Word. Shortlisted for both Radio 4’s Afternoon Story and a Bluechrome internet story competition, she has a horror story published in Dark Tales and a poem in the anthology A Track of Light, published by |
Lightship Poetry Prize Winner 2010-2011
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Lightship Poetry Prize
Winner 2010-11 The Visit Angela France Angela France has had poems published in many of the leading journals, in the |
Lightship Flash Fiction Prize Winner 2010-2011
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Lightship Flash Fiction Prize
Winner 2010-11 Grumpy Xmas Peter Crockett After graduating from |
Lightship First Chapter Long List (Top 30)
We had 578 entries into the inaugural First Chapter literary competition. The standard of entries was high. Those writers who made the cut into the last 30, and onto the long list, should feel very proud of themselves. Well done! The final short list of 10 will be announced in early September 2011.
Anglian Archipelago
An Orchard of Pomegranates
Any Other Name
A Fat Gold Watch
Anatomy of the Upper Body
Blood Aphorisms
Hector’s Hierarchy
Human Demon
In the Museums of Sleep
Jupiter and Gilgamesh
Listening Through the Cracks
Monster Fish
One Sixth Out of Darkness
One of Our Clowns in Missing
Shaking the Firefly Cage
The Flower
The Glory of Swynn Hill
Rusalka
Tell me in Tamil
Until Love Shows Up
Harriet Beecher Stowe in Love
The Other Shade of Black
September Winds
Tidal Sunset
Finding Lisa
The Cocooning of Wallace SW Faul
Happiness Rising Slowly
The Last Days of Prospero
Olivia’s Odyssey
Lightship Short Lists Posted
Well done to all those talented writers who made it through to the Lightship short lists! Sorry for the slight delay in posting the results. We wanted to notify all writers on the short lists personally and confirm they were happy to have their names listed.
All those on the Short Story, Poetry and Flash Fiction lists and the winner of First Chapter will be published in The Lightship Anthology (due to be launched 15 October 2011). The hard copy of the anthology will cost £6.99. If you buy 3 copies, we'll give you one free. If you buy 6 copies, we'll give you 2 free. If you buy 9 copies we'll give you 3 free. They will make great Xmas and birthday pressies and are a very agreeable form of boasting about your talent to everyone you know. If you would like to reserve copies of the anthology (published by Alma Books) please email: admin@lightshippublishing.co.uk
Lightship will also be producing a Kindle ebook version of the anthology, price tbc.
The overall winners in all our four competitions will be notified of the judges' decisions in due course.
Thank you for entering.
Simon Kerr
Lightship First Chapter Short List (Top 10)
Anatomy of the Upper Body by Maya
An Orchard for Pomegranates by Audrey Dunne
Any Other Name by Rebecca Rouillard
A Fat Gold Watch by
Last Days of Prospero by David Sellers
Anglian Archipelago by Liz Ferreti
Rusalka by Kyrill Potapov
Monster Fish by Felicity Kay
The Flower
Lightship Short Story Short List (Top 10)
Mercy by Elaine Barnard
The Way To A Man’s Heart by Jane Hayward
Kabuki Eye by Wes Lee
Stabane by Kiare Ladner
Say That You Saw Beautiful Things by Sandra Hunter
Sketcher by Roland Watson Grant
Sigmund Freud and the Cretinous Dwarf by David Carter
The Forgetenarium Keeper by Laurie Duniam
Bund Girls by Vanessa Fabiano
Let it Out by Lucy Durneen