Entry to ABC's Winter Competition Closes on Monday!

This is the final call for submissions to our Winter competition!

All entries must be in by midnight Greenwich Mean Time on this coming Monday, January the sixth.

So if you’ve registered but haven’t submitted your story yet, get writing, and if you haven’t registered, sign up via Paypal below!

Rules:

The theme of the competition is loosely based around ‘Winter,’ but feel free to incorporate the theme as much or as little as you’d like.

This is a 50/50 competition. The winners in prose and poetry will split half the proceeds from entries, while the other half will go to funding ABCtales.

The competition is open to all ABCtales members on payment of the £5 entry fee, or £9 for two entries or £12 for three in any genre. No more than three entries per writer.

The competition is being judged by the Editor of ABCtales. The opinion of the judge is final. No employee or relative of an employee of ABCtales is able to enter.

All entries must be posted on ABCtales. Entries must have checked the ‘Add to Competition' box at the bottom of all story edit forms (if you have trouble finding this just send me an email via the contact form).

The two categories judged will be fiction and poetry: there will be a word limit of three hundred and fifty (350) words for poetry and twenty five hundred (2,500) words for fiction.

The prize will be split equally between winners of the poetry and prose categories. Honourable mentions will be announced but there will only be one winner in each category.

To register, use the box below.

Number of Entries
Enter your ABC username:

We have some very strong entries so far—which you can have a look at here—but don't let that dissuade you. Get going and start writing!

Comments

 

 

 

He said, “I’ll sing you the blues

To coincide with this damp wintry night;

Throw in six pence more and I’ll strum

A tune on my three stringed guitar;

My mute will howl whilst I play

While the moon is still high and bright.

 

Tell your neighbors of this brief encounter

of the six legged kind.

Roll up roll up the red carpet beckons

At the entrance of oxford circus tube station tonight.

 

Tell them how this old man, old as good God's earth

Danced to the rhythms and pulses of our goddess mother earth;

Tell of his voice which moved mountains for you

And how his nimble fingers plucked  

Till reddish black and blue.

Tell of the homeless with hands open wide in queues

The Salvation Army adjacent

Feeding the multitude;

The queen’s favored military band

The red, the white, the blue.

 

Tell how his mute howled the stars

Into the roaring waves of Empires conquered seas;

With all the gusto of admiral nelson bent down on a single knee.

 

Forget that I am old, imagine me young

Free spirited, full of life, a son of a gungudin.

The truth be told no one recognizes me no more

In a past life an old sea dog is what I used to be.

 

Post on YouTube…this amazing sight

If we get more hits than blurred lines

Thick will be my pockets this night;

Simon and Louie will be scouring London's bustling streets,

Shinning bright lights of Britain’s got talent

Will bow at my feet.

 

Before my throne are wondering stars

Burnt out and drifting

Like drunks

staggering from late night bars

Snuffed out of existence by the burning pace

Of streets caked in excrement from the human rate race.

 

Roll up roll up all you young and old,

The chancellor’s looted your pockets

But spare some change for this retched soul.

Roll up roll up you citizens from European communities

You’re not here for the weather but to graft,

so spare a euro for a comrade like me.

 

Keep Britain for the nations

Let’s keep Britain for the pound

keep Britain tidy

remember me now

 

Have mercy on this poor miserable sinner

On this frosty winters night.

who lives in a cardboard box

on the banks of the river theames

 

Hi Puma,

To enter, please post your story as you would any other story, here: http://www.abctales.com/node/add/abcstory, and tick the 'add to competition' box at the bottom before publishing it!

Glad to have you in the competition,

Luke 

Hi and firstly I apologise for being thick, but I am not sure if I managed to post my entry correctly?

I am sure I ticked Competition and I know I paid, so is that it?

You'll probably bin me now for being so stupid!

(But in case you don't thank you.....)

'Winter-time blues' is indeed in the competition! Thanks for taking part!

Thank you for your help!