By strange coincidence the latest copy of Writers' Forum magazine has an excellent new monthly competition for women's magazine's short stories starting with The People's Friend. It's definitely worth tracking down a copy of the November issue if short stories are your thing because there's lots of useful tips in it too. The challenge is to write a 1,000 word story for PF (one entry only) and the competition is free to enter and open to anyone who hasn't already had a story published in the magazine. You can also opt to have your story critiqued for ??3 by teh article's writer Sue Moorcroft. Stories must be sent to a special address given in the magazine - not The People's Friend offices. Any shortlisted stories 'of suitable standard' by Sue and the PF fiction editor Shirley Blair will be used in the People's Friend. I'm hoping to have a go at this competition, the chances are the children's story I've just submitted to them will not be decided upon for some time. There is also an advertisement in WF for a short story competition bu The Lady, England's oldest weekly magazine. You can choose from three genres comedy, historical or mystery. Again only one entry per person but this time stories must be between 2,000 and 2,200 words. Winning stories will be published in The Lady. Full competition details will be in The Lady's October 14th edition. I'm not familiar with this magazine so I'm going to try and track down a few copies so I can see if I'd like to have a go at this comp too.
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