Spilling Ink Review

Spilling Ink Short Story Prize Closing Date: 31 May

spillinginkling — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:49:43 +0000

Now Open!
Closing Date: May 31, 2012
We always make an effort to notify winners within 30 days of closing date.+++

1^st Prize – £500, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

2^nd Prize – £250, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

3^rd Prize – £125, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

Honourable Mentions – offer to publish in the quarterly ejournal Spilling Ink Review

Entry fee (per entry): £5 or €8 or $10

Guest Judge: Richard Beard

Richard Beard has published five novels including X 20 A Novel of (not) Smoking (1996), Dry Bones (2004) and Damascus (1999), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In 2008 he was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and in 2010 longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. His latest novel is Lazarus is Dead (2011).

He has also written three books of non-fiction. Muddied Oafs (2003), Manly Pursuits (2006) and Becoming Drusilla (2008).

Richard Beard is the Director of the National Academy of Writing. The next National Academy of Writing event is a 10-week evening course beginning on May 23 in London. For more details, see: 10-week course: 23 May-25 July 2012 .

Competition Guidelines

1500 words max (no minimum).
There is no theme. All styles and genres are welcome.
Multiple entries are accepted but must be accompanied with an entry fee.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please let us know as soon as possible if your entry has been accepted elsewhere or won/placed in another writing competition. Entry fees will not be refunded in this case.
Entries may be submitted via email or post. Entries submitted via email must be attached in the form of a Word (doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). Entries submitted via post must be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced. Entries sent via post will not be returned (please don’t send your only copy).
Please be kind when formatting and adhere to general rules of courtesy (i.e. 12pt standard font, double-spaced, pages numbered).
Your name, email address or any other distinguishing names should not appear in the body of your story. For example, please don’t put your name and email address in the header or footer. It is fine to include the title of your submission.
Submissions must be entrant’s own original work and must be previously unpublished (if your work has appeared in an online workshop or a member’s only writer’s chat – etc – it is eligible for this competition).
International submissions are welcomed but all entries must be written in English.
As a condition of submitting, the author must hold the copyright of the entry. If the entry is successful Spilling Ink will have one time publication rights. Copyright remains with the author.
Entries will be judged anonymously and all decisions are final.

How to Enter

You have two options: Online and Postal

Online Entry

You may submit your entry(ies) via email and pay the entry fee(s) online via PayPal. You do NOT need a PayPal account to use this option. Click the appropriate button below and you’ll be re-directed to a secure PayPal shopping cart. Please notice that you have the option to pay online in GBP (£), EURO (€) and USD ($). If you wish to enter more than one submission you will be given the opportunity to change the quantity on the PayPal shopping cart.
If you do not wish to pay online you may still submit your entry via email and send a cheque via the post. We can only accept cheques for GBP £ from a UK bank. Please make cheques payable to ‘Spilling Ink Review’ and post to: Spilling Ink Review, PO Box 16864, Glasgow, Scotland G11 9DJ.

Once you have a receipt/transaction number submit your entry via email to: spillingink.email@gmail.com
Be sure to cut and paste your PayPal receipt/transaction number into the body of the email (or let me know that payment has been sent via post)
State the competition category in the subject line of your email
In the body of the email please include the following:

Name

Postal Address

Title of Entry and Word Count

PayPal Receipt/Transaction Number

Don’t forget to attach your story! Atachments must be in the form of a Word(doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). It would also help if the document name is the title of your story.

Postal Entry

Entries submitted via post should be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced. Please adhere to common formatting (such as 12pt font, Times New Roman – or similar standard font – double-spaced). We do not reject entries based on varied formatting but we do appreciate standard style.
Entries sent via email will not be returned. Please do not send your only copy.
If you do not have an email address or you wish to receive hard-copy confirmation that we received your entry, please include a SASE or postcard.
Postal submissions should be accompanied by a cheque from a UK bank made out to ‘Spilling Ink Review’. We can only accept cheques in GBP (£).
Postal submissions should be accompanied by a coversheet stating the following:

Name

Postal Address

Title of Entry and Word Count

Email address (if available)

If you are more comfortable using a Competition Entry Form, please feel free to click the button below, print and submit with your postal entry.

Announcement of Winners

Winners and runners-up will be notified by email after the closing date and results posted on the Spilling Ink Review website.

© 2010-2012 Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: spillingink.email@gmail.com

Welcome: Gill Hoffs

spillinginkling — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:25:37 +0000

So what should I say? Hello? Welcome? Do read on?
++++++Let’s start with a ‘Yo!’
++++++Not that I’m a ‘Yo!’ person or a casual high-fiver; I’m shy and nerdy and weep at sad adverts, but it feels peppy and appropriately enthusiastic. So ‘Yo!’ to you, careful reader.
++++++Allow me to introduce myself, first of all.
++++++I’m Gill. Not Gil, the bathmatted cowboy from Parenthood. Not Jill, tumbling down the hill. Not Gill like the slit on the side of a fish. Not Gill as in an awful lot of whisky. Not Jill as in female ferret. Just Gill short-for-Gillian which I only hear when I’m pretending to be a grown-up in the bank or post office, visiting my aunt, or being scolded by my mother for saying something shocking (again).
++++++And the surname. Hoffs. Hoff with an ‘s’. ‘S’ for stegosaurus, or Superman, or something-equally-cool. We’re the only ones in the UK, my husband and son and I. Or if we’re not, the others must be hiding in a bunker or molehill as we’ve never found one yet.
++++++My husband had a crush on Susanna Hoffs of Bangles fame. He still kinda does. She’s talented and beautiful so it’s understandable. She has a good name too, solid, unusual, visually pleasing when written or typed. So when he turned 17 he took her surname, and when I married him, so did I. But most folk forget the ‘s’. Our mail has some odd approximations, ‘Houghes’, ‘Houffes’, ‘Horefish’, ‘Huffs’, ‘Hoofs’ etc. etc.
++++++So allow me to repeat myself. It’s ‘Hoffs’. Gill Hoffs. Now I sound like a secret agent. But I’m not. I’m a writer, and now also an editor.
++++++Some people love flower arranging. They go to classes, cast a critical eye over other people’s flopping tulips and crumbling mud-green oasis, appraise vases and jugs with an eye to possible contents season by season, room by room. Pheasant feathers are collected on country walks to ‘add interest’ or ‘fit the theme’, and aspirin crushed carefully and added to the water to keep the arrangement ‘fresh’.
++++++I’m a word arranger. I think words are fantastic.
++++++I love everything about them. How they sound in different accents and tones of voice, how gender and age can alter their sensual resonance, how they look in exotic handwriting or on a screen or page. How some typefaces and fonts beckon the eye and some repel without reason.
++++++I love how some people have their favourites while others casually toss out anything that might get their meaning across to the intended audience. I get shivers reading old pamphlets and newspapers, smelling the richness of the inky paper and imagining its history. The etymology of words and phrases fascinates me, the translation of foreign sayings and proverbs enchants, and I have a weakness for puns and wordplay that makes my husband groan with disgust.
++++++So, having spent the last couple of years compulsively writing and since before I can remember obsessively reading, I’m now co-editor at one of the first places I was ever published. I’m not sure if I’m awake or whether I want to be if I’m not.
++++++Spilling Ink Review publishes different, challenging, thought provoking fiction, as well as a wealth of other creative complexities. As an editor here I get to see it first, and I love it.
++++++It takes a special kind of guts to send off your work. You might know me online or in real life, you might not know me from Adam Savage (Mythbusters – I love it), either way it’s still difficult. Sending your creation out into the world, whether to strangers, acquaintances, family, or friends, requires a kind of masochistic bravery. The more pieces you send out, the less it hurts when you get a ‘no, thank you’ – and the greater the chance of your work finding a home. So do keep sending out your babies. And know this:
++++++
++++++We read your work with respect and applaud your courage.
++++++We root for every submission that enters our inbox.
++++++We want to publish where we can.
++++++
++++++But this isn’t always possible.
++++++Sometimes you’ll just be unlucky. It would have been the perfect granny-turns-into-a-bank-robber-just-so-she-gets-a-heated-jail-cell-then-turns-out-to-be-an-assassin-and-kills-her-cellmate story but we just okayed another one for the same issue.
++++++Sometimes there’s no sense of story or no love of language evident on the page. It’s almost as if you’re telling us about a story you want to write, someday, maybe soon. But not here and now with this submission.
++++++Sometimes, and this is possibly the most frustrating thing, we get what might be a great story – if it used the correct tenses, spelling, and punctuation.
++++++Think of presentation and formatting like this: I’m reading you a story. You’re lying in my double bed in the sunshine with line-dried sheets, soft pillows, and a feather duvet while I stroke your hair and read to you and you’re drifting off, aware only of my voice and the exquisite comfort of lying there, listening as if hypnotised…
++++++Then I poke you with my little finger. There’s an ‘hte’ instead of a ‘the’. I keep reading, and you’re back there, back in the comfort zone, back in the story. It’s playing out in your mind’s eye, and you’re there – then it happens again, this time because of an inappropriate apostrophe. I flick your eyelid with my nail. You’re on edge now, still lying there, still willing me on and hoping to get back to the good place, the happy place, the otherness in your head. But you’re braced against the mattress, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for a pinged earlobe or twisted nose.
++++++How can you relax into the story when you’re just waiting to be pulled out of it? That’s the power of presentation, or rather, the power of bad presentation. If that analogy didn’t work for you, how about this one. Presentation is like a bra. You don’t notice it unless it’s lent something wonderful to what it holds within, or it’s doing a terrible job.
++++++We don’t mind the odd typo or grammatical lapse; indeed we’ll no doubt be guilty of them ourselves. We’re human and humane. A piece we’re struggling to decipher because of the your/you’re/youre or there/ther/their/theire’s within will not be read all the way through, and will not be selected. And we hate rejections. So don’t make us do it!
++++++Send us your babies. We’ll treat them with love. And if you don’t get a ‘yes’ this time, do try again. We’re rooting for you.

2012 Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize RESULTS

spillinginkling — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:07:54 +0000

Please join me in congratulating the winners of the

2012 Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize

1st Place

Valerie O’Riordan

You Might Call It a Start

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2nd Place

Bruce Holland Rogers

Classical Conditioning

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3rd Place

Christina Murphy

Quasa una fantasia

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Shortlist:

R. A. Martens – Figment
Ranulph Redlin – Six
Siobhan Staples – Fish Out of Water

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Honorable Mention:

J.L. Bogenschneider – He Doesn’t Want Me, He Needs Me
Andrew McCallum Crawford – A Man’s Hands
Desmond Kon – I Only Say This Out of the Art of Conversation
Alison Wassell – The Dead Boy

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The winning and shortlisted entries will appear in our annual print anthology due for publication November/December, 2012. Honorable Mentions will appear in
Spilling Ink Review: Issue 8 which has a new release date of 1st June (pending author agreement).

Follow these links if you’d like to know more about future Unbound Press Awards and Spilling Ink Prizes.

Thank you to all who participated in the Flash Fiction Prize.

And a very special thanks to our Guest Judge!

Louise studied history at the University of Glasgow where she gained an honours degree and then opened a second hand bookshop which she ran for several years before becoming a full-time writer. In 2000 she gained an MLitt in Creative Writing (Distinction) from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.

Louise has been the recipient of several awards including The John Creasey Memorial Dagger, the Saltire First Book Award, the Glenfiddich/Scotland on Sunday, Spirit of Scotland Writing Award and City of Glasgow Lord Provost’s Award for Literature. In 2007 she was included in Waterstone’s list of Twenty-five Authors for the Future.

Louise has written many short stories and produced features for most of the major British broadsheets. She has also written for the stage, most recently Memory Cells (2009) and also in 2009, wrote the libretto for a fifteen minute opera Remembrance Day, music by Stuart MacRae, which was included in Scottish Opera’s Five:15 series. She has also presented several radio features, most recently ‘The Gorbals Vampire’, a thirty minute feature for BBC Radio 4, producer David Stenhouse (March 2010) and ‘Tibet on the Banks of the Clyde’ for BBC Radio 3, Producer Louise Yeoman (September 2010).

Louise’s work has been translated into twenty languages and she has been awarded several international fellowships and residencies including a Robert Louis Stevenson Award (2003), Hawthornden Fellowship (2005), Stipendium at the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia (2007/8), Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (2008), Villa Hellebosch residency (2009) and a Ledig House residency (2010)

Louise is currently writer in residence for The University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art.

Louise’s novels include:

Find out more: louisewelsh.com.

© 2011-2012 Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

2012 Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize

spillinginkling — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:40:12 +0000

2012 Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize

Now Open!
Closing Date: March 31, 2012
We always make an effort to notify winners within 30 days of closing date.+++

1^st Prize – £500, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

2^nd Prize – £250, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

3^rd Prize – £125, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

Honourable Mentions – offer to publish in the quarterly ejournal Spilling Ink Review

Entry fees:
We accept GBP (£), EURO (€) or USD ($)
1 entry £5 / 3 entries £10
1 entry €8 / 3 entries €16
1 entry $10 / 3 entries $20

Guest Judge: Louise Welsh

Louise is currently writer in residence for The University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art.

Louise’s novels include:

Find out more: louisewelsh.com.

Competition Guidelines

500 words max (no minimum).
There is no theme. All styles and genres are welcome.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please let us know as soon as possible if your entry has been accepted elsewhere or won/placed in another writing competition. Entry fees will not be refunded in this case.
Entries may be submitted via email or post. Entries submitted via email must be attached in the form of a Word (doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). Entries submitted via post must be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced. Entries sent via post will not be returned (please don’t send your only copy).
Please be kind when formatting and adhere to general rules of courtesy (i.e. 12pt standard font, double-spaced, pages numbered).
Your name, email address or any other distinguishing names should not appear in the body of your story. For example, please don’t put your name and email address in the header or footer. It is fine to include the title of your submission.
Submissions must be entrant’s own original work and must be previously unpublished (if your work has appeared in an online workshop or a member’s only writer’s chat – etc – it is eligible for this competition).
International submissions are welcomed but all entries must be written in English.
As a condition of submitting, the author must hold the copyright of the entry. If the entry is successful Spilling Ink will have one time publicatiopn rights. Copyright remains with the author.
Entries will be judged anonymously and all decisions are final.

How to Enter

You have two options: Online and Postal

Online Entry

You may submit your entry(ies) via email and pay the entry fee(s) online via PayPal. You do NOT need a PayPal account to use this option. Click the appropriate button below and you’ll be re-directed to a secure PayPal shopping cart. Please notice that you have the option to pay online in GBP (£), EURO (€) and USD ($). If you wish to enter more than one submission you will be given the opportunity to change the quantity on the PayPal shopping cart.
If you do not wish to pay online you may still submit your entry via email and send a cheque via the post. We can only accept cheques for GBP £ from a UK bank. Please make cheques payable to ‘Spilling Ink’ and post to: Spilling Ink Review, PO Box 16864, Glasgow, Scotland G11 9DJ.

Once you have a receipt/transaction number submit your entry via email to: spillingink.email@gmail.com
Be sure to cut and paste your PayPal receipt/transaction number into the body of the email (or let me know that payment has been sent via post)
State the competition category in the subject line of your email
In the body of the email please include the following:

Name

Postal Address

Title of Entry and Word Count

PayPal Receipt/Transaction Number

Don’t forget to attach your story! Atachments must be in the form of a Word(doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). It would also help if the document name is the title of your story. If you are submitting more than one entry, it is perfectly acceptable to send them in one email.

Postal Entry

Entries submitted via post should be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced. Please adhere to common formatting (such as 12pt font, Times New Roman – or similar standard font – double-spaced). We do not reject entries based on varied formatting but we do appreciate standard style.
Entries sent via email will not be returned. Please do not send your only copy.
If you do not have an email address or you wish to receive hard-copy confirmation that we received your entry, please include a SASE or postcard.
Postal submissions should be accompanied by a cheque from a UK bank made out to ‘Spilling Ink Review’. We can only accept cheques in GBP (£).
Postal submissions should be accompanied by a coversheet stating the following:

Name

Postal Address

Title of Entry and Word Count

Email address (if available)

If you are more comfortable using a Competition Entry Form, please feel free to click the button below, print and submit with your postal entry.

Announcement of Winners

Winners and runners-up will be notified by email after the closing date and results posted on the Spilling Ink Review website.

© 2010-2012 Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: spillingink.email@gmail.com

Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Holiday Flash Fiction Prize Results

spillinginkling — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:03:23 +0000

Please join me in congratulating the winners of the

2012 Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Holiday Flash Fiction Prize

1st Place

Kylie Grant

Their Eyes Were Watching Cod

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2nd Place

Luxi Peng

On the Outskirts of the World

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3rd Place

Danielle Monroe

Chronicle of an Alabama Childhood, 1957

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Shortlist:

Gail Aldwin – Homeless
Faith Cobaine – The Seat of Virtue
Martin Cornwell – E justitsim
Tania Hershman – Into the Waiting Arms of God
WF Lantry – Coloratura
Paul McGuire – Mum’s the Word
Emily Munro – The Buyer

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Honorable Mention:

Ailsa Crum – One or the Other
Tom Norton – The Pizza Girl
Mark Sheerin – Plucking at the Gunbri
Barabara Whittle – Initiation

♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

The winning and shortlisted entries will appear in our annual print anthology due for publication November, 2012. Honorable Mentions will appear in
Spilling Ink Review: Issue 8 (pending author agreement).

Thank you to all who participated in the Flash Fiction Prize.

Follow these links if you’d like to know more about future Unbound Press Awards and Spilling Ink Prizes.

© 2011-2012 Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Review Holiday Flash Fiction Prize

spillinginkling — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:26:56 +0000

Flash Fiction Prize

Now Open!
Closing Date: January 9, 2012
Winning and short-listed entries notified no later than January 31, 2012+++

1^st Prize – iPad2 and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology
For an idea of what you could win and information about the iPad2 visit the good people at the Apple Store

2^nd Prize – iPod touch and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology
For an idea of what you could win and information about iPod touch visit the good people at the Apple Store

3^rd Prize – iPod nano and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology
For an idea of what you could win and information about iPod nana visit the good people at the Apple Store

Shortlisted Entries – publication in our annual 2012 print anthology

Shortlisted & Honorable Mentions will receive also receive a free copy of Story.Book, our 2011 annual print anthology

Entry fee:

GBP – 1 for £5 or 3 for £10 (cheques accepted from UK banks)
EURO – 1 for €8 or 3 for €16
USD – 1 for $10 or 3 for $20

Competition Guidelines

500 words max (no minimum).
There is no theme. All styles are welcome.
Entry fees may be paid securely online via PayPal (you do not need a PayPal account) or via post. Cheques must be from a UK bank and should be payable to Unbound Press.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please let us know as soon as possible if your entry has been accepted elsewhere or won/placed in another writing competition. Entry fees will not be refunded in this case.
Entries may be submitted via email or post. Entries submitted via email must be attached in the form of a Word (doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). Entries submitted via post must be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced and should be accompanied with a cover page stating: Name, Postal Address, Phone Number, Email Address (if available) Title Entry/Word Count. Entries sent via post will not be returned (please don’t send your only copy). Send postal entries to: UP & SIR HOLIDAY FLASH FICTION PRIZE /PO Box 16864 / Glasgow / Scotland / G11 9DJ
If you submit via post and wish to receive an acknowledgement of receipt be sure to include your email address OR a self-addressed, stamped envelope or postcard.
Please be kind when formatting and adhere to general rules of courtesy (i.e. 12pt standard font, double-spaced, pages numbered).
Submissions must be entrant’s own original work and must be previously unpublished.
International submissions are welcomed but all entries must be written in English.
Copyright remains with the author.
Entries will be judged anonymously and all decisions are final.

How to Enter

You have two payment options. You may use the secure, pay-online PayPal option below or you may send a cheque (from a UK bank only) to the following address: UP & SIR HOLIDAY FLASH FICTION PRIZE, PO Box 16864, Glasgow, Scotland G11 9DJ.
If paying online: once you have a receipt/transaction number submit your entry via email to: unboundpress@gmail.com
Be sure to cut and paste your PayPal receipt/transaction number into the body of the email (or let me know that payment has been sent via post)
State the competition category in the subject line of your email
In the body of the email please include the following:

Name

Postal Address

Title of Entry and Word Count

PayPal Receipt/Transaction Number

Don’t forget to attach your story!

How to Pay Online

Paying by £ (GBP)
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Paying by € (EURO)
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Paying by $ (USD)
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Announcement of Winners

Winners and runners-up will be notified by email after the closing date and results posted on the Unbound Press and Spilling Ink Review websites.

© 2011-2012 Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

Unbound Press and Spilling Ink Review are divisions of Arts Unbound Limited Registered Company 07489349

Spilling Ink Review Issue 7

spillinginkling — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:20:11 +0000

Collin Barber – Soul Stealer
Kerry Barner – A Story in Two Acts Where Nothing Happens – Twice
Luke Bramley – Spitting at the Stars
Scott Carpenter – The Visit
Sarah-Clare Conlon – I See Electric
Carol Deminski – The Girl at the Chelsea Hotel
Martin Cathcart Froden – S-Bahn and the Sons of Judah
Lou Gaglia – The Fly Massacre
Dylan Gilbert – The Beginning with Hannah
Andrew McCallum Crawford – Gimlet
Carol McKay – Safety Glass
Todd McKie – Fox is Blue
Matthew Zanoni Müller – Pearls Before Swine
Sam Porter – Words in the Eyes
Luiza Sauma – Gone, My Boy
Rosie L. Seymour – The crack in the ceiling
Richard W. Strachan – Homes for the Future
Emma Timpany – Bright, Fine Gold

Spilling Ink Fiction Prize Results

spillinginkling — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:38:56 +0000

Please join me in congratulating the winners of the

2011 Spilling Fiction Prize

1^st Prize – £500, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

2^nd Prize – £250, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

3^rd Prize – £125, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Shortlisted Entries – publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Honorable Mentions – publication in Spilling Ink Review online (pending author agreement)

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1st Place

Claire-Louise Bennett

The Lake

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2nd Place

Edward Mc Whinney

Premonitions

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3rd Place

Eivind Nerberg

Cries from the Marianas Trench

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Shortlisted

Gill Hoffs – Fuck Hitler
Harriet Kline – Hares
Kenny Mooney – Cyanophobia
Michael Powell – James Pode
Helen Sedgwick – Matthew
J. David Simons – Poland 1919 Decisions, Decisions
Mark Wagstaff - Autumn in the playground

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Honorable Mention

Luke Bramley – Spitting at the Stars
Martin Froden – S-Bahn and the Sons of Judah
Rowena McDonald – My Beauty
Matthew Muller – Pearls Before Swine
Delaney Nolan – Seeds Like Teeth
Rosie Seymour – The Crack in the Ceiling

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The winning and shortlisted entries will appear in our annual print anthology due for publication November, 2011. Honorable Mentions will appear in
Spilling Ink Review: Issue 7 (pending author agreement).

Thank you to all who participated in the Fiction Prize.

Spilling Ink Review Issue 6

spillinginkling — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:08:14 +0000

Emily Bamford – Up in Smoke
Bryan Dye – Sugar
Diana Filar – Things that are Hard to Forget
Sherard Harrington – How to Date Your Boyfriend
Gill Hoffs – Firework Sand
Karen Jones – Colouring In
Andrew McCallum Crawford – The Next Stop is Croy
Benjamin Middleton – Actors
Lucy Pizey – And Other Textbook Symptoms
Mark Sheerin – The Bowie Act
Daan Spijer – Cul-de-sac
Mandy Taggart – Skiboo
Graham Tugwell – The Slender Help
Mike Wendling – Ethics Exam

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Viccy Adams – Endangered Species
Seif El Rashidi – Absence
Dorothy Fryd – Fine Art
Alan Gillespie – Rab’s Pub
Caroline Greene – Trompe l’oeil
Tom Mahony – Presence
Mike Morris – I Forgot
Matt Salyer – Idylls of the King
Ross Stewart – Let Good Digestion Wait on Appetite
Sarah Wright – Squab

2011 Spilling Ink Short Story Prize Results

spillinginkling — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:30:19 +0000

Please join me in congratulating the winners of the

2011 Spilling Short Story Prize

1^st Prize – £250, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

2^nd Prize – £125, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

3^rd Prize – £50, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Shortlisted Entries – publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Honorable Mentions – publication in Spilling Ink Review online (pending author agreement)

♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

1st Place

Iain Paton

Handling Snakes

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2nd Place

Jamie Waller

The Boy Who Died in Vang Vieng

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3rd Place

Daniela I. Norris

Gathering Storm

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Shortlisted

Nicola Belte – The Bull Boys
Raylene Brown – At Last, A Seed in the Hollow Womb
W.F. Lantry – Origins
Harry McDonald – Dead Authors
James Murray – Avy and the Fish
Kate Smith – Damascus Road
Patrick Sung – The Death of the Star Gazer
Sammy Wright -Malcolm

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Honorable Mention

Emily Bamford – Up in Smoke
Bryan Dye – Sugar
Sarah Evans – Duopoly
Diana Filar – Things That Are Hard to Forget
Gill Hoffs – Firework Sand
Karen Jones – Colouring In
Benjamin Middleton – Actors
Mark Sheerin – The Bowie Act
James Smart – Therapy
Daan Spijer – Cul de sac
Mike Wendling – Ethics Exam

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The winning and shortlisted entries will appear in our annual print anthology due for publication November, 2011. Honorable Mentions will appear in
Spilling Ink Review: Issue 6 (pending author agreement).

Thank you to all who participated in the Short Story Prize.

Spilling Ink Review

Spilling Ink Short Story Prize Closing Date: 31 May

Now Open! Closing Date: May 31, 2012 We always make an effort to notify winners within 30 days of closing date.+++

1st Prize – £500, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

2nd Prize – £250, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

3rd Prize – £125, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

Honourable Mentions – offer to publish in the quarterly ejournal Spilling Ink Review

Entry fee (per entry): £5 or €8 or $10

Guest Judge: Richard Beard

Competition Guidelines

How to Enter

Online Entry

Postal Entry

Announcement of Winners

Winners and runners-up will be notified by email after the closing date and results posted on the Spilling Ink Review website.

© 2010-2012 Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: spillingink.email@gmail.com

Welcome: Gill Hoffs

2012 Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize RESULTS

2012 Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize

1st Place

Valerie O’Riordan

You Might Call It a Start

2nd Place

Bruce Holland Rogers

Classical Conditioning

3rd Place

Christina Murphy

Quasa una fantasia

Shortlist:

R. A. Martens – Figment Ranulph Redlin – Six Siobhan Staples – Fish Out of Water

Honorable Mention:

J.L. Bogenschneider – He Doesn’t Want Me, He Needs Me Andrew McCallum Crawford – A Man’s Hands Desmond Kon – I Only Say This Out of the Art of Conversation Alison Wassell – The Dead Boy

© 2011-2012 Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

2012 Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize

2012 Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize

Now Open! Closing Date: March 31, 2012 We always make an effort to notify winners within 30 days of closing date.+++

1st Prize – £500, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

2nd Prize – £250, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

3rd Prize – £125, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

Honourable Mentions – offer to publish in the quarterly ejournal Spilling Ink Review

Entry fees: We accept GBP (£), EURO (€) or USD ($) 1 entry £5 / 3 entries £10 1 entry €8 / 3 entries €16 1 entry $10 / 3 entries $20

Guest Judge: Louise Welsh

Competition Guidelines

How to Enter

Online Entry

Postal Entry

Announcement of Winners

Winners and runners-up will be notified by email after the closing date and results posted on the Spilling Ink Review website.

© 2010-2012 Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: spillingink.email@gmail.com

Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Holiday Flash Fiction Prize Results

2012 Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Holiday Flash Fiction Prize

1st Place

Kylie Grant

Their Eyes Were Watching Cod

2nd Place

Luxi Peng

On the Outskirts of the World

3rd Place

Danielle Monroe

Chronicle of an Alabama Childhood, 1957

Shortlist:

Gail Aldwin – Homeless Faith Cobaine – The Seat of Virtue Martin Cornwell – E justitsim Tania Hershman – Into the Waiting Arms of God WF Lantry – Coloratura Paul McGuire – Mum’s the Word Emily Munro – The Buyer

Honorable Mention:

Ailsa Crum – One or the Other Tom Norton – The Pizza Girl Mark Sheerin – Plucking at the Gunbri Barabara Whittle – Initiation

© 2011-2012 Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Review / Amy Burns, Editor / PO Box 16864, Glasgow G11 9DJ, email: unboundpress@gmail.com

Unbound Press & Spilling Ink Review Holiday Flash Fiction Prize

Flash Fiction Prize

Now Open! Closing Date: January 9, 2012 Winning and short-listed entries notified no later than January 31, 2012+++

1st Prize – iPad2 and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology For an idea of what you could win and information about the iPad2 visit the good people at the Apple Store

2nd Prize – iPod touch and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology For an idea of what you could win and information about iPod touch visit the good people at the Apple Store

3rd Prize – iPod nano and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology For an idea of what you could win and information about iPod nana visit the good people at the Apple Store

Shortlisted Entries – publication in our annual 2012 print anthology

Shortlisted & Honorable Mentions will receive also receive a free copy of Story.Book, our 2011 annual print anthology

Entry fee:

GBP – 1 for £5 or 3 for £10 (cheques accepted from UK banks) EURO – 1 for €8 or 3 for €16 USD – 1 for $10 or 3 for $20

Competition Guidelines

How to Enter

How to Pay Online

Now Open!
Closing Date: May 31, 2012
We always make an effort to notify winners within 30 days of closing date.+++

1^st Prize – £500, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

2^nd Prize – £250, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

3^rd Prize – £125, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

R. A. Martens – Figment
Ranulph Redlin – Six
Siobhan Staples – Fish Out of Water

J.L. Bogenschneider – He Doesn’t Want Me, He Needs Me
Andrew McCallum Crawford – A Man’s Hands
Desmond Kon – I Only Say This Out of the Art of Conversation
Alison Wassell – The Dead Boy

Now Open!
Closing Date: March 31, 2012
We always make an effort to notify winners within 30 days of closing date.+++

1^st Prize – £500, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

2^nd Prize – £250, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

3^rd Prize – £125, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy

Entry fees:
We accept GBP (£), EURO (€) or USD ($)
1 entry £5 / 3 entries £10
1 entry €8 / 3 entries €16
1 entry $10 / 3 entries $20

Gail Aldwin – Homeless
Faith Cobaine – The Seat of Virtue
Martin Cornwell – E justitsim
Tania Hershman – Into the Waiting Arms of God
WF Lantry – Coloratura
Paul McGuire – Mum’s the Word
Emily Munro – The Buyer

Ailsa Crum – One or the Other
Tom Norton – The Pizza Girl
Mark Sheerin – Plucking at the Gunbri
Barabara Whittle – Initiation

Now Open!
Closing Date: January 9, 2012
Winning and short-listed entries notified no later than January 31, 2012+++

1^st Prize – iPad2 and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology
For an idea of what you could win and information about the iPad2 visit the good people at the Apple Store

2^nd Prize – iPod touch and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology
For an idea of what you could win and information about iPod touch visit the good people at the Apple Store

3^rd Prize – iPod nano and publication in our 2012 annual print anthology
For an idea of what you could win and information about iPod nana visit the good people at the Apple Store

GBP – 1 for £5 or 3 for £10 (cheques accepted from UK banks)
EURO – 1 for €8 or 3 for €16
USD – 1 for $10 or 3 for $20

1^st Prize – £500, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

2^nd Prize – £250, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

3^rd Prize – £125, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Gill Hoffs – Fuck Hitler
Harriet Kline – Hares
Kenny Mooney – Cyanophobia
Michael Powell – James Pode
Helen Sedgwick – Matthew
J. David Simons – Poland 1919 Decisions, Decisions
Mark Wagstaff - Autumn in the playground

Luke Bramley – Spitting at the Stars
Martin Froden – S-Bahn and the Sons of Judah
Rowena McDonald – My Beauty
Matthew Muller – Pearls Before Swine
Delaney Nolan – Seeds Like Teeth
Rosie Seymour – The Crack in the Ceiling

1^st Prize – £250, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

2^nd Prize – £125, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

3^rd Prize – £50, publication, 1 free copy of annual print anthology

Nicola Belte – The Bull Boys
Raylene Brown – At Last, A Seed in the Hollow Womb
W.F. Lantry – Origins
Harry McDonald – Dead Authors
James Murray – Avy and the Fish
Kate Smith – Damascus Road
Patrick Sung – The Death of the Star Gazer
Sammy Wright -Malcolm