The
best The Criminally-Short Short Histories Awards 2007
Last
year we ran the very successful
HISTORICAL ONE PAGE PRIZE,
but this displeased our criminal Authors, (Sorry, our Writers of Crime-fiction!)
as there was no very-short story competition for them. So this year
we are introducing:-
THE CRIMINALLY-SHORT SHORT HISTORIES AWARDS
This time there are THREE categories.
The Best Very-Short Crime Story
The Best Very-Short Historical Story
The best Very-Short Historical Crime Story
There will be a winner and two runners-up in each category,
all to be published in the Fish Anthology 2008
Criminally-Short Short Histories - Competition Summary
Summary - The Rules - Entry Fees - On-Line Entries - Postal Entries
Title: The Criminally-Short Short Histories Awards 2007
Opens: 1 May 2006
Closing date: 30 September2007
Results: 30 November 2007
Judges - -Philip Gooden, Richard Lee, Keith
Souter
A First Prize of €500 plus publication in the Fish 2008 Anthology and ten copies of the Anthology goes to the winner of each category,
A second and third place in each category will also be selected to appear in the Anthology and will each receive an award of €100 plus five complementary copies of the Anthology.
All winning authors will be invited to read their work at the launch of the Fish Anthology 2008.
There is no need to classify your story. Our judges will decide which category your story best fits.
The Rules
• No entry form is needed.
• The Prize is open to writers of any nationality writing in English.
• There is no restriction on period or style but the theme must be historical, crime based, or both
• All stories must fit on one page of a Fish Anthology. A guide line of 250-300 words is indicated. Any stories significantly longer than this will be disqualified.
• Winning stories must be available for the Anthology and, must not have been previously published .
• Copyright remains with the author.
• Notification of receipt of entry will normally be by email.
• The judges' verdict is final.
• No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted.
• Stories cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered.
Entry Fees
The cost of an On-line entry is fixed in Euro and any translation into your local currency will be done automatically by your credit card company according to the current exchange rate.
Payment is by credit card only.
| On-Line Entry € |
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| Per Entry | €12.00 |
| Critique (Optional) | €25.00 |
On-Line Entries
ALL ENTRIES MUST BE SUBMITTED ON-LINE THROUGH OUR WEB SITE. PLEASE DO NOT SEND ENTRIES AS E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS.
PLEASE ENSURE THE TITLE OF THE STORY DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE FIRST PAGE, THE TITLE IS AUTOMATICALLY APPENDED BY THE SYSTEM.
PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE STORY. YOUR STORY IS AUTOMATICALLY LINKED TO YOUR NAME.
Postal Entries
This is an on-line only competition. Postal entries will not be accepted.
However if you have any difficulty with our on-line submission system
or with our on-line payment system we will be glad to work with you
to sort things out. Simply E- mail us at
techsupport@fishpublishing.com
Judges
Philip Gooden read English at university and taught for many years before becoming a full-time writer in 2001. He writes the Nick Revill series of historical mysteries set in Elizabethan and Jacobean London. His latest title is An Honourable Murderer . Philip also produces reference books on language, most recently Faux Pas and the forthcoming Name Dropping. Philip is the current Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association.
Richard Lee set up the Historical Novel Society in 1997, to promote every aspect of historical Fiction. The society publishes the quarterly Historical Novels Review magazine which aims to review every new work of historical fiction released in the USA and the UK.. The society also publishes the twice yearly magazine Solander . featuring interviews with current authors. Richard lives with his French wife and their family near Exeter in the UK.
Keith Souter was born in St Andrews, Scotland and educated at Dundee University. He is a part time general practitioner, newspaper columnist, medical author and novelist (under two pen-names). He has lived and worked in Wakefield for twenty-seven years, within arrow-shot of Sandal Castle, hence his interest in matters historical. He won the Fish Historical One Page Prize in 2006 and his most recent novel The Pardoner's Crime is published by Hale in January 2008.
Winners of the Historical Short Fiction Prize 2006
The overall winner of the 2006 Historical One-Page Prize is:
Keith Souter with his very-short story "The Villain's Tale"
Keith
Souter was born in St Andrews, Scotland and educated at Dundee
University. He is a part time general practitioner, newspaper columnist,
medical author and novelist (under two pen-names).
He has lived and worked in Wakefield for twenty-seven years, within arrow-shot of Sandal Castle, hence his interest in matters historical.
He is married to Rachel and they have three grown up children and a granddaughter.
The Runners-up are:
Jessie J. Ellis - Knoxville 1899
Michigan, USA
Kimball Ann Richards - The Morning We Started To Leave
Vancouver, Canada
Rosemarie Rose - Shapes
Cwmbran, South Wales
Zoe Sinclair - That Sweet May Morning
Kent, England
Short Stories to read online
Read online some of the winning entries from previous Fish Anthologies. These are examples of the calibre that win the Fish Short Story Prize. Short Stories to read online
Writing Short Stories
Our new Writing feature provides some suggestions on the art of story writing. The page is designed to provide writers with on-going, constructive information about how other authors achieved success with writing short fiction. For more information visit our Writing Short Stories page.
Online Book Shop
You can buy Fish Publishing's Anthologies of short stories on-line in our online book shop – The Fish Shop.
Online Entry
Our Fish-On-Line online entry system provides a convenient way to enter our contests on the web. Register as an online Fish author and you can enter current and forthcoming Writing Contests. Writers may also enter any of our competitions by post. See our Writing Contests page for full details
Writing Contests - Assistance
Fish Publishing offers an Editorial Consultancy and Critique Service. designed to provide writers thinking of entering writing competitions with constructive feedback on their work, whether it is a complete novel or just the beginnings. The Service is available to writers prior to entering the Fish writing competitions.