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Our City or An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Leicester: Call for anthology submissions
Deadline: Thu 31 Jan 2019
We would like pieces on the following topics: the city, the county, its people, places of interest, social history, sport or food. You can use the city as a backdrop for your story, or turn it into the main character. It could be set in the past, present or future.
It can be a ghost story set in the city, a short story about your love of Leicester City FC, a poem about one of the green spaces, there are no hard and fast rules, but it must capture the spirit of Leicester or Leicestershire. It should show your LOVE of the city.
Submissions invited include:
• Fiction 2,000-4,000 words
• Poetry 50 lines maximum
• Short Story 2,000-4,000 words
• Flash fiction 100-500 words
• Creative non-fiction 2,000-4,000 words
• Essay 2,000-4,000 words
We welcome contributions in your mother tongue, accompanied by an English translation.
Winners writing will appear in the book published by Dahlia Publishing, a small independent publishing press based in Leicester, and will receive 2 complimentary copies. There will be the opportunity to read an extract from their work at our launch event in October 2019.
Free Entry
Please email entries to leicesterstories@btinternet.com
Only electronic entries will be accepted.
Further details here
Submissions by January 31st, 2019
Additional Information:
Location:
Leicester
Region(s):
East Midlands
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