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The deadline is fast approaching for our biennial Poetry & Short fiction competition. We hope you’re thinking of entering because we love to read your entries – and it’s also a massive help to the magazine because all money raised goes back into production (after we’ve paid the prizes and the main judges’ fees, of course).
As always, if you’re a subscriber you get your 2nd entry for FREE (you can even take out a new subscription today and get your 2nd entry free), but for the first time ever if you become a Brittle Star Patron you get your first entry for FREE. Visit our Patreon page to find out how you can become a Patron for as little as £1 a month, giving you access to the lovely rewards and treats that we give our Patrons as a special thanks for supporting us.
The normal cost of entry is only £5 for the 1st entry then £3.50 for any following entries – which is really good value anyway, but not as good as free!
The deadline for the competition is 14th March. The first prize in each category is £250, plus publication in the magazine, a subscription for you to keep for yourself or give to a friend, and an invitation to read at our launch and Prize-Giving at the Barbican Centre Library in London.
The judges this year are the brilliant Pascale Petit and Nicholas Royle (and our own Jacqueline Gabbitas). Pascale is an award winning poet, 4-times shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. Her most recent collection, Mama Amazonica (Bloodaxe, 2017), was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Nicholas is a novelist and short story writer. His most recent collection is Ornithology (Confingo, 2017). He is well known as the series editor of Best British Short Stories (Salt).
To find out more about the competition, including the rules and T&Cs, and to enter click on the big bright orange link HERE! Good luck and happy writing!
Thank you everyone who entered our poetry and short fiction competition. Everyone who’s won a prize has been notified and we’ll be announcing the winners and commended writers (and giving out the prizes!) as part of our Issue 38 Launch on 22nd June.
Join us and our competition judges George Szirtes and Alison Moore on Wednesday, 22th June, 6.30 for 7pm at the Barbican Library, London, as we celebrate the launch of Issue 38 and the competition winners with an evening of wonderful readings.
Wednesday, 22th June, 6.30 for 7pm at the Barbican Library, Silk St, London, EC2Y 8DS. FREE Event.
And to accompany our readings we have our traditional summer Pimms & strawberries! Let us know you’re coming either by email or through our
Facebook Event Page.
We had some slight seconds issue 34s for sale at the reduced price of £3 and asked you to use the (slightly marked) covers to come up with your own, individual issue 34 covers – and tweet them, pinterest them or facebook them. We had a good bunch of people buy copies and four fabulous submissions (six including mine and Martin’s – but we don’t really count) – with collage and gold paint and an embroidered belly-band and a toddler-artist. Out of the four submissions we’ve chosen a #pimpmystar winner who wins a subscription/re-subscription to Brittle Star and our three other entries win some lovely runner up prizes. Alison Clayton Smith is our overall winner, Peter Raynard is a very close second, and Anna Robinson and Kate Wise are our runners up.
