BUDDING children’s authors in Warrington are being urged to enter the annual High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize for Literature – and stand a chance of picking up a £2,000 prize.
Closing date for the competition, organised by the University of Chester, is Monday, September 1.
The theme of this year’s contest is children’s literature and entrants, who most be 18 or over, are asked to submit a previously unpublished piece of writing aimed at children aged between seven and 14.
It may be in prose or verse, and a prose entry should not exceed 1,500 words while a verse entry should not exceed 100 lines.
The writer must have been born, live or have lived, study or have studied, work or have worked, in Cheshire.
Additional prize-money of £750 will be awarded, and the best entries will be published in an anthology by the University of Chester Press.
Full competition rules can be downloaded from www.chester.ac.uk/literatureprize
BUDDING children’s authors in Warrington are being urged to enter the
annual High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize for Literature – and stand a chance
of picking up a £2,000 prize.
Children's literature competition
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