Lightship International Literary Prizes | various categories

Lightship Publishing is an independent publisher based in Kingston-upon-Hull, UK. The Lightship International Literary Prizes have the aim of discovering, mentoring, and publishing the best new writers (in English) from around the world.

There are competition calls for different literary categories:

Lightship First Act Prize is an international playwriting competition, open to writers of any nationality writing in English above the age of 16. There is no restriction on theme or style.

Are you an aspiring playwright? Do you have a full length play in you? Write the first act and a synopsis and enter Lightship Publishing’s latest competition, First Act, for a chance to win the dream prize of every aspiring dramatist.
Expert Mentoring.

First Act deadline for entries: 30 June 2013

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Lightship First Chapter Prize 2013

Do you have a literary novel in you? Have you written the first chapter and a synopsis? Enter Lightship Publishing’s flagship contest, First Chapter, for a chance to win the dream prize of every aspiring novelist.

Deadline: 1 July 2013

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Lightship Poetry Prize

1st Prize: £1,000 / US$1600*

The winner and nine runners-up will be published in Lightship Anthology 3 and will be invited to read from their work at an awards ceremony in November 2013.

Deadline: 1 July 2013

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Lightship Short Memoir Prize 2013

Do you want to tell your own story, or an episode of it; write from your own life experiences and get published? A short memoir is not fact-based autobiography. It is pure storytelling and as such, allows writers licence to make sense of a part of life, to fashion it into a story that readers can learn from and be entertained by. The inaugural Lightship Short Memoir Competition will be judged by Rachel Cusk. The winning entry will be awarded £1,000 and be published in Lightship Anthology 3.

Deadline for entries: 30 June 2013

NOTE: an entry fee is payable for the competitions - see each for guidelines