Deadline Midnight, 15th November 2017
Offers a national prize for women over 40 of £1,000 and a month’s writing residency provided by Hosking Houses Trust and a regional prize (East of England) of £600 and a mentoring session with Jill Dawson of Gold Dust.
The winning entries will be published online and in a Compendium of Words and Women’s best entries from the last 4 prize-winning anthologies.
Entries can be fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction and life-writing on any theme.
2,200 words
Guest judges: Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, authors of A Secret Sisterhood: The hidden friendship of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf.