Print Express UK Short Story Competition for Children (worldwide)

26 April 2012
Print Express UK Short Story Competition for Children (worldwide)
Deadline: 30 June 2012

Alex Black of Print Express sent this call for entries to us a few days ago. If you know any budding writer under the age of 14 who might be interested to participate, please point them to this post.
Free to enter, no risk - this sounds like a good opportunity for kids to get started on fiction writing.

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Announcing the Print Express Children's Story Competition: we've run a number of competitions for aspiring poets & short story authors in the past, but we're excited to announce that this is the first competition we've run exclusively for kids. If you're aged 13 or under and are a keen short story writer, we want to hear from you - and you could win £150 in Amazon vouchers!

To enter, email us at shortstory@printexpress.co.uk with your short story (maximum of 500 words) on any topic that you'd like. The more creative, interesting, exciting & fun your story - the better!

Here are the rules in full:

- No entry fee
- Open to those aged 13 or under
- Maximum of 500 words
- Deadline to enter is 30th June, 2012
- Only one entry per person
- When applying, include your age
- We'd like to publish the winner's story on our blog, but you keep the rights to it.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For inquiries/ submissions: shortstory@printexpress.co.uk

Website: http://www.printexpress.co.uk/
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