The competition offers a cash prize of £600 and publication in Words and Women: Two. This year, the anthology will include 20 shortlisted entries and four winning commissions from its Arts Council Funded project, ‘About.’  

The anthology published in partnership with Unthank Books in Norwich will be launched on International Women’s Day, 8th March, 2015. Entry is open to all women writers over the age of 16 who live or work in the East of England.  Fiction, memoir, life-writing and creative non-fiction is all welcome, but no extracts please.  

This year’s judge is Norfolk-based novelist Sarah Ridgard, whose first novel, Seldom Seen was shortlisted for the Author’s Club best first novel award. Entries should be no longer than 2,200 words.

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