Still Time to Enter Our Competition!

We are still accepting entries for our adult short story competition. Get your pen at the ready as it closes at midnight 1st Novemeber 2011!

We are looking for adult stories up to 5000 words, the theme is open, it can be in any style or genre but do look at our titles to see the kind of thing we publish. We are looking for stories that are different, thought-provoking and unusual- we err on the side of literary. We want previously unpublished stories, if they are submitted elsewhere do let us know if they are to be published as they will need to be withdrawn from this competition.

CLOSING DATE:Midnight NOVEMBER 1st 2011
The fifteen best stories will be published in a collection in 2013 that will support the 2013 charity (to be decided.)
The entry fee also includes a donation of £1 to the 2011 charity Children’s Hospices UK.
The winner will also receive 6 months one-to-one mentoring and the runner-up will have 5 short stories critiqued by our editors.
How to submit:
Pay for your entry with PayPal £5 per story submitted. Then email your story as a word document following the guidelines below
£5 to enter (per story), £1 goes to Children's Hospices UK

Please email your submission to submissions@bridgehousepublishing.co.uk

For submission details please go to http://bridgehousepublishing.co.uk/ShortStoryCompetition2011.aspx

Good luck and get entering!

Calling All Adult Short Fiction Writers

We are looking for adult stories up to 5000 words, the theme is open, it can be in any style or genre but do look at our titles to see the kind of thing we publish. We are looking for stories that are different, thought-provoking and unusual- we err on the side of literary. We want previously unpublished stories, if they are submitted elsewhere do let us know if they are to be published as they will need to be withdrawn from this competition.

CLOSING DATE:Midnight NOVEMBER 1st 2011

The fifteen best stories will be published in a collection in 2013 that will support the 2013 charity (to be decided.)

The entry fee also includes a donation of £1 to the 2011 charity Children’s Hospices UK.

The winner will also receive 6 months one-to-one mentoring and the runner-up will have 5 short stories critiqued by our editors.

If you would like to enter please click here to be taken to our submissions page and to see our submission guidelines.

We look forward to reading your entries!

Bridge House Short Story Competition 2009

At last I can share with you the information about the winners of the first Bridge House Short Story Competition. The standard was high and it was hard to choose the winners- but they are all worthy. We decided that all three places will have their stories published in future anthologies.

The stories are:

First Place Sandra Morgan Dancing To Lili Marlene

Second Place Susan Stern I Never Wear Black

Third Place Carol Croxton When Angels Weep

Find out more about the authors and read extracts of these stories here on the Bridge House Blog...