{"id":4563,"date":"2021-11-16T18:28:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leeuwardencityofliterature-staging.netlify.app?p=4563"},"modified":"2021-12-21T23:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T23:01:35","slug":"open-call-manchester-writing-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leeuwardencityofliterature.nl\/en\/open-call-manchester-writing-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Open call: Manchester Writing Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Manchester Metropolitan University in City of Literature Manchester organises the Manchester Writing Competition: UK\u2019s biggest literary awards for unpublished work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designed to encourage and celebrate new writing across the globe, the competition is open internationally to new and established writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2021 Manchester Writing Competition is now open to entries!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00a310,000 prizes for the best portfolio of three to five poems and best short story of up to 2,500 words. <\/li><li>Submissions must be new work, not previously published.<\/li><li>Open internationally to new and established writers aged 16 or over.<\/li><li>Deadline: 28 January 2022. <\/li><li>Entry fee: \u00a318 \u2013 reduced-price entry available until 30 Nov. <\/li><li>Organized by the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. <\/li><li>Judged by Romalyn Ante, Malika Booker, and Zaffar Kunial (Poetry) and Hilaire, Simon Okotie, and Nicholas Royle (Fiction). <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For full details, to enter, or to read last year&#8217;s winners, visit the Competition website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color has-background has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmu.ac.uk\/writingcompetition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Competition website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester Metropolitan University in City of Literature Manchester organises the Manchester Writing Competition: UK\u2019s biggest literary awards for unpublished work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"news_category":[136,54],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-open-call","news_category-contest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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