Welcome to the first run of the North East Creative Writing
Competition 2010.

Artistic?
Enter the first run of our short story and/or poetry competition now.
Deadline for closing is July 30th 2010.

Short story: 1st prize – £100, 2nd prize – £30, 3rd prize – £20
& five runners up each receive a prize of £10.

Poetry: 1st prize – £100, 2nd prize – £30, 3rd prize – £20
& five runners up each receive £10.

All winning stories and poems will be published online.

And all entrants will receive back a free commentary on each individual short story or poem that they enter.

Word count for the short story stands at a maximum of 5000 words, and can be written in any genre.

There is no word count or line count for poems.

Entrance per short story is £5
Entrance per poem is £4.
You may enter up to three short stories and/or three poems.

Winners will be announced on the website no later than August 30th 2010.
All winning short stories and poems will be published on the website by August 30th 2010.
Entrants will receive back a judge’s report by August 30th 2010.

Enter now by clicking the submit your story button to the right hand side of the page.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at cawriting@hotmail.com

Good Luck.