The Welkin Writing Prize
Event Details
The Welkin Writing Prize is a free-to-enter writing competition for narrative fiction. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose, be that flash fiction, short-short, vignette, haibun, hermit
Event Details
The Welkin Writing Prize is a free-to-enter writing competition for narrative fiction. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose, be that flash fiction, short-short, vignette, haibun, hermit crab, prose poem or work that sits outside such labels.
There is no theme; entries can be on any subject and written in any style.The total prize pot currently sits at over £700.
There are prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place stories as well as for the best non-placed:
- (1) writer with a disability or chronic health condition,
- (2) LGBTQ writer,
- (3) working class writer,
- (4) writer whose first (or home) language isn’t English,
- (5) carer for an adult dependent,
- (6) new writer (for a writer with five or fewer publishing credits),
- (7) historical fiction,
- (8) humorous prose,
- (9) speculative fiction.
The competition is organised and judged by Matt Kendrick.