Cinnamon Pencil Mentoring Competition

Our new-look mentoring service, Cinnamon Pencil is a brilliant way to focus on your writing and bring out your creative potential. To help launch the 2019 scheme, we're offering a chance to win a free place, together with two 50% bursaries to the best runners-up.

To enter, send us either:

1. short stories (send a sample of 3); or
2. full length fiction (send the first 10,000 words); or
3. poetry (send 15 sample poems); or
4. a mixed genre manuscript.

The entry fee is £10 and the closing date is 15 December.

We'll look forward to reading your submissions and good luck!

Guidelines

1. One first prize of a free mentoring place plus two runners-up prizes of 50% bursaries to the 2019 Cinnamon Pencil Mentoring Service.
2. Open to all writers, beginners and established.
3. Judged by Jan Fortune, Michelle Angharad Pashley, Seth Fortune and Adam Craig.
4. The fee is £10. Credit cards can be used on Paypal without an account or pay by bank transfer in GBP.
5. Deadline: 15 December 2018.
6. Submit either: 3 short stories; or the first 10,000 words of a full length piece of fiction; or 15 poems; or a mixed genre manuscript of prose and poetry.
7. Submitted pieces should be drawn from a work in progress and not previously published.
8. International entrants welcome.
9. Entries should be submitted electronically, via the form below, as single documents in .doc, .docx or .rtf file formats only.
10. Please ensure you have up-to-date virus protection before sending any files.
11. Please include your name and contact details with your submission.
12. Work will not be returned, so please keep a copy.
13. We are unable to give feedback on individual entries or on the results of the competition — the judge's decisions are final.
14. Results (within 3 months approximately) will be sent individually to the winning writer and two runners-up, published on the Cinnamon website, and included in our newsletter, so do sign up.