- Current Competitions:
2009 Micro-Fiction Competition
Blog-Post Competition
Poetry Competition
Postcard-Writing Competition
Short Story Competition - now closed. Judging in progress. Winners will be announced in August.
Click Here for previous competitions and results
2009 Micro-Fiction Competition
Leaf Books invites you to submit micro-fiction (max 300 words) on any subject imaginable.
Enter online and pay via PayPal, or by post. If entering online, after making your payment you can send us your entry as an attachment (.doc or .rtf only, please – we can’t open .docx or .wps files) to contact@leafbooks.co.uk.
Entry fee: £3 per entry; four entries for £10
1st prize: £100, copy of the anthology and collection of Leaf pocket-books.
Runner-up: copy of the anthology and collection of Leaf pocket-books.
The winning piece, runner-up and selected commended entries will be published in an anthology.
Closing date – September 30th 2009.
Results announced Oct 2009.
Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your details and a cheque. click here for postal address
Enter online: pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing.
For a single entry (£3):
For 4 entries (£10):
Blog-Post Competition
Leaf Books invites you to submit blog posts (max 500 words), taken from your existing blog or written specifically for the competition (so you don’t need to have a blog to enter), on any subject imaginable (that doesn’t offend or slander or any of those things, obviously). It can be a work of fiction with a fictional author, a philosophical musing, a comment on current affairs: anything you like. The work will be judged on the written content only: the appearance of the blog is irrelevant, as is everything other than the specific post submitted.
Enter online and pay via PayPal, or by post. If entering online, you can send us your entry as an attachment to contact@leafbooks.co.uk or just send us a link to a specific entry in your own blog.
Entry fee: £3 per entry; four entries for £10
1st prize: £100
The winning piece and selected commended entries will be published on the Leaf Competition Showcase site.
Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your details and a cheque. click here for postal address
Enter online: pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing.
For a single entry (£3):
For 4 entries (£10):
If entering online, you can send us your entry as an attachment to contact@leafbooks.co.uk or just send us a link to a specific entry in your own blog.
Closing date – August 31st 2009
Leaf Books invites you to submit poems (max 35 lines) on any subject. All selected entries will be published in an anthology.
Enter online or by post.
£3 per single submission;
£10 for four submissions.
Winner receives £200 plus a copy of the anthology plus complete collection of pocket-sized Leaf Books. Runner up receives complete collection of pocket-sized Leaf Books and a copy of the anthology.
Closing Date: July 31st 2009.
Enter by post: you can download an entry form (word document) here
or just send your details and a cheque. click here for postal address
Enter online: pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing.
For a single entry (£3):
For 4 entries (£10):
Note: We always used to send every author of the selected entries a free copy of the book but due to general funding crises we will only be sending free copies to the winner and runners up and then all the other selected authors will be able to buy the book at half price. Sorry about that: we would if we could.
Something to say? A story to tell? Take part in the Leaf Books Postcard-Writing Competition. We’d like you to write on any subject or to someone on one side of a postcard
Ideas: write a message from the past, the present or to someone in the future, to a friend or a stranger, about a place, possession, passion.
Your postcard can be written and/ or illustrated, bought or home made.
Or if entering online, download the postcard-sized document template from the website.
The winning pieces will be published and showcased on a website specific to this competition linked from the Leaf Books main site.
First Prize = £100 Runners Up = full set of pocket books
Price: £2.50 per entry, £10 for 5 entries
Word limit (if you’re using just words): 150 words
Enter online or by post.
Closing date – 30 th June 2009
Download Entry Form (word document)
or
Enter Online and pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing.
Single entry £2.50:
Five entries £10:
It seems an age since we last ran a short story competition – the most recent short story anthology in our absurdly expansive library is Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks. Which is available for purchase from our website. But anyway. Here’s another.
Leaf Books invites you to submit short stories on any subject. Word limit: 1,000. All selected entries will be published in an anthology.
Enter online or by post.
Entry fee: £4 per story; 3 stories for £10.
Winner receives £150 plus a free copy of the competition anthology, plus a full set of pocket-sized Leaf Books. Up to two runners up receives a free copy of the anthology and a full set of pocket-sized Leaf Books. Closing date: May 31 st 2009.
Download and entry form (word document)
Or
Enter Online and pay via paypal (they take credit cards if you don't have a paypal account). The button will take you to paypal and then you just email us the writing.
Single entry £4.00:
3 entries £10.00:
Note: We always used to send every author featured in the anthology a free copy of the book, but due to general funding crises we will only be sending free copies to the winner and runners up and then all the other selected authors will be able to buy the book at half price. We’re deeply sorry about that: rest assured, we would if we could.
Click Here for previous competitions and results