[New post] Creative Writing Competition

The Amnesty International Ely City Group is running its fifth short story competition. The competition is for unpublished fictional short stories of up to 1,500 words on the theme of “Hope” and can be set in any place or time. It is open to anyone in the UK aged over 16. Judging will be by local crime and police procedural novel writer Jim Kelly, winner of the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library award in 2006, and the 2011 New Angle Prize for literature (http://www.jim-kelly.co.uk/). The author of the best short story will receive £50 and a hardback signed 1st edition of Death Ship, Jim Kelly’s latest DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine novel. The runner-up will receive a copy of the Amnesty Group’s award-winning illustrated recipe book. The closing date is 15th November 2018, the PEN International Day of the Imprisoned Writer. There is an entry fee per story of £3 (16-18-year-olds), and £5 for over 18s. All proceeds will go towards Amnesty’s human rights campaigns, and winning entries will be published on the Amnesty UK and Ely City Group websites. Full details are available on http://goo.gl/AKfvPq and any queries should be sent to: info@elyamnesty.org.uk. Previous winning entries can be read on http://goo.gl/UrtfLx and http://goo.gl/HwPXZE.