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Short Story Competitions

The Short Story Radio Romance Award 2010

We have now chosen the short-listed entries for the very first Short Story Radio Romance Award and notified the entrants. The winner will be announced here on February 25th 2010.

The Short Story Radio Romance Award 2011 will be open to submissions this spring. More details will be available soon.

About the Short Story Radio Romance Award

Short Story Radio is proud to announce the Short Story Radio Romance Award 2010. This exciting and innovative new writing competition offers romantic fiction writers the chance to have their work recorded and broadcast, as well as to receive a cash prize.

We are looking for an engaging and entertaining romance story, told in two parts of no more than 5,000 words in total, similar to the type of romance story you will find in a women's magazine.

The winning story will be recorded and broadcast, in two episodes, on the Short Story Radio website and podcast. It will be recorded by a professional actor and will be a high quality production, complete with incidental music, made to the same standard as the stories already broadcast on Short Story Radio. The story will be available for broadcast for a period of 12 months.

The winner will also receive a cash prize of £150 (approx. $235 USD) and the title of winner of the Short Story Radio Romance Award 2010.

The short-list judge for this competition is Pat Richardson, founder of Perfectly Worded Writing and Editing Consultancy and former Fiction Editor at Best magazine (UK).

 
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Short-list Judge: Pat Richardson

Former Fiction Editor of best magazine and founder of Perfectly Worded Writing and Editing Consultancy

Pat Richardson, who won the National Magazine Company's 2008 Eagle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Editorial, is an award-winning (and runner-up) travel writer, and serves as a judge for the British Guild of Travel Writers Awards. She was Travel, Fiction and Regular Features Editor, at best magazine for 16 years, during which she read over 50,000 short stories, edited more than 1,000 of them for publication – and wrote a few of her own!

Read more about Pat and Perfectly Worded

We believe this is the first writing competition of its kind and offers a fantastic opportunity for romantic fiction writers and enthusiasts.

All entrants, including the winner, will retain the copyright to their story.

Learn more about the previous winners of our competition

Listen to the Mslexia Short Story - Mslexia competition winner Beda Higgins and read about the 2010 Mslexia Short Story Competition