Aurora Prize for Writing 2020
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The first in an occasional series of news about writing competitions and other opportunities for writers, brought to you by The Ink Well.
The Aurora Prize for Writing is open to international submissions from authors and poets who are over 18 and writing in English. Entries are made online.
The deadline is Monday 8 June 2020 at midnight.
Entries
- There are two categories, Short Fiction and Poetry.
- Entries can be on any subject.
- Poems must have a title and not exceed 60 lines (excluding the title).
- Stories must have a title and not exceed 2,000 words (excluding the title).
- Entries must not have been published before (including self-published, published on a website or blockchain or broadcast in any way).
Prizes
The winners in each category will receive £500 cash plus feedback on a piece of work of their choice from a leading literary agent (or editor as appropriate) and a year’s free membership to the Society of Authors, which includes access to advice and resources on all aspects of the business of writing.
Fees
There is a £9 fee for the first entry; £7 for each additional entry. There is no limit to the number of entries.
Copyright remains with the writer
Full Terms and Conditions and How to Enter
Aurora Prize Winners 2019
For Short Fiction 1st Place – Alice Haworth-Booth, Ears Now 2nd Place – Christina Eagles, Coping Stones 3rd Place – The Traps, Ella King For Poetry 1st Place – Toby Campion, Oyster 2nd Place – Bernard Pearson, Manor Farm 3rd Place – Joshua Judson, Lock Which of the prize winners did you enjoy most? Write a 50-word review and include the title and a link to the story or poem you are reviewing in the comments below. Hive tips for the best reviews. Closing date for reviews: Sunday 31 May 2020 We would like to invite lovers of poetry and short stories to visit The Ink Well, a Hive community started by @raj808 and run by @shanibeer and @stormlight24 with support from moderators @carolkean and @jayna. It is now possible to follow The Ink Well curation trail on Hive blockchain with Hive.Vote. Simply navigate to the curation trail section and search for theinkwell and our trail will pop up as an option. If you wish to delegate to @theinkwell and support creative writing on Hive, you can do this from the wallet section in PeakD.
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Congrats to the winner.
I hope to partake in the inkwell contest
Hello @adechina, this is a contest that is open now for writers to enter. The winners are from last year :)
Look forward to your entry in The Inkwell Challenge - here's this week's Fiction Challenge. There will be a new one on Thursday.
I like this. I love that literature is being connected from the outside into our small community. It brings to mind an old idea, a magazine or literary journal that publishes pieces picked from posts by authors here, or a contest that is supported with awards of hive to winners, after which winning works would appear on an anthology. I like to believe that one day blockchain based spaces like this will become more connected to mainstream literary activities like contests, anthologies, publication, etc.
To end, in further posts of this nature, it would be nice to see free submissions mixed with paid submissions for those who cannot afford to pay to submit their pieces.
Thank darlings for this community. I am happy to be a part of it. More grease.
Or we could make The Ink Well a go to destination for people who want to read stunning poetry and fiction :) We have the means now, through tipping, for writers to continue to earn for a very long time.
We will need better ways of curating the content of The Ink Well so every post is good quality and so that it is easy from readers outside to find what they are looking for.
Writers could help to grow The Ink Well by:
The great thing about Hive is that writers have the opportunity to earn to pay for submission fees.
How do you feel The Ink Well could best help writers?
I subscribe to this.
I think inkwell is already doing a good job with this home for writers to congregate. I just envision a situation where writers here do not just stop at curation and or a traffic on their posts but also find their works, if good, on platforms that cater to mainstream writing submissions. It is an idea which I feel will bridge the gap and make the Hive writing community as well as Inkwell mainstream.
I know this will take some doing to achieve. I feel that celebrating works that touch us can go a lot father than up votes and reblogs. I appreciate all that you do and I know that you will do more.
The first showcase post will be published on Wednesday - let me know what you think :)
Great conversation, @warpedpoetic and @shanibeer. I think there is great opportunity for growth of the writing community here, and I love seeing the ideas about how to make that happen.
There used to be a group on Steem that created anthologies like you're talking about, @warpedpoetic.
Oh, anthologies outside the blockchain space?