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PEN/Bellwether Prize
Category:   Fiction
Closes:   1st January 2012
Fees:   $25 for one entry.
Prizes:   $25,000 for first place.
Details:   For unpublished novels of at least 80,000 words addressing issues of social justice, by US authors with limited publishing experience.
Contact:   PEN/Bellwether Prize, PEN American Center, 588 Broadway, Suite 303, New York, NY 10012
Country:   United States
Email:   awards@pen.org
Website:   http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/2145

The Oxford Editors Writing Comepetition
Category:   Fiction
Closes:   29th February 2012
Fees:   £3 for one entry.
Prizes:   £150 for first place.
Details:   Win £150 and see your story published on our website and as an e-book. The First Chapter Prize Win £100 and a 50 per cent discount on our assessment fee for your completed book.
Contact:   Suite 103, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7GL
Country:   United Kingdom
Email:   info@theoxfordeditors.co.uk
Website:   http://www.theoxfordeditors.com

Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Comp.
Category:  Fiction
Closes:   31st December 2011
Fees:   $15 for one entry.
Prizes:   $1,000 for first place. $500; $250. Also possible publication.
Details:   For short fiction with Jewish content up to 7,000 words.
Contact:   Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest, Moment Magazine, 4115 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Suite 102, Washington, DC 20016
Country:   United States
Website:   http://www.momentmag.com/moment/contests/shortfictionguidelines.html

The New Writer Micro Fiction Prize
Category:   Fiction
Closes:   30th November 2011
Fees:  £5 for one entry. One entry consists of up to two pieces (three if a subscriber).
Prizes:   £150 for first place. £100; £50.
Details:   For micro fiction up to 500 words.
Contact:   The New Writer PO Box 60 Cranbrook Kent TN17 2ZR
Country:   United Kingdom
Email:   editor@thenewwriter.com
Website:   http://www.thenewwriter.com/prizes.htm

ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA:

2012 Laurie Contest
Sponsor: Smoky Mountain Romance Writers
Fee: $25.00
Deadline: February 1, 2012
Eligibility: Published authors may enter if they have not signed a contract in the past three years.
Entry: Electronic Only. First twenty-five pages of unpublished novel-length (40,000+ words), no synopsis.
Judges: include published authors/trained judges.
Final Judges: Top three finalists in each category will have their work judged by top editors.
Winners to be announced at the 1st Annual Romfest in Gatilinburg, Tn. in June 2012.
FMI, visit www.smrw.org/contests.

SCRIPTS

Get Your Comedy Sketch Produced
Category:   Scripts
Closes:   16th December 2011
Fees:   $0 for one entry.
Prizes:   $0 for first place. Get your comedy sketch produced by an award-winning director.
Details:   Ever had an idea for a comedy sketch? We are back once again helping talented comedy writers get their sketches produced and distributed. This time we have teamed up with an award-winning filmmaker. The competition is part of a series, in which anyone can submit a script for free. Participants are encouraged to collaborate with one another to produce the funniest piece of comedy they can.
Country:   United Kingdom
Website:   http://www.circalit.com/projects/competitions/jason

BBC WRITING OPPORTUNITIES

New Writing Talent Search: Heartlands
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Passionate about writing television drama for the BBC and live in the ‘heartlands’ of England?

BBC writersroom and the Doctors team at BBC Birmingham are searching for exceptional new and emerging writers from the Midlands who want to write drama for television.

Heartlands will provide an industry training and development opportunity for writers with some of the most experienced producers in the country.

The talent search opens on 14th November – find out how you can enter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunity/heartlands_new_writing_talent_search.shtml

SCRIPT WRITING OPPORTUNITIES Via ISA

FOUND FOOTAGE SCRIPTS WANTED
We are looking for completed feature-length found footage scripts, i.e., scripts in the vein of “The Blair Witch Project,” “Cloverfield,” or “Paranormal Activity.” Budget will not exceed $2 million. WGA and non-WGA writers may submit. Please note that in order to protect this company from unsolicited calls and emails, and because this lead is exclusive to InkTip subscribers, we’re keeping their name anonymous.
TO SUBMIT: Please go to www.InkTippro.com/leads and enter your email address (you will be signing up for InkTip’s free newsletter) with this code: pc9x62j643. You will be submitting a logline and synopsis only.
IMPORTANT:  Please ONLY submit your work if it fits what the lead is looking for EXACTLY.

BUYING SHORT AND FUNNY SCRIPTS
ADA Sport is a LA based animation production company. We are looking for short (1-3 minutes) funny, edgy (in the style of ‘South Park’), potentially viral scripts to be animated. Scripts should be about popular trends, popular people and popular events featuring topics that are of interest to people now and preferably always. If we like your script or idea, we will buy it for $300.
Here are good examples of the types of scripts we need:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg (iPhone vs HTC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEVU-YLpM8A (Relationships parody)
We only consider submitted scripts or ideas. If you have already submitted a script to us earlier that was rejected do not re-submitting it. If you have new scripts, we are happy to consider them. The number of times you can make a script submission is unlimited.
ADA SPORT respects all artists’ rights and will not illegally use the submitted materials. For more information, please review the full ADA Sport idea submission policy at http://adasport.com/submission_policy. Please contact us at adasport110@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Please remember to check out legitimacy of all contests before you enter and to copyright all work.

Good luck and let me know how you get on.

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