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Day: 23 June 2014

How Not to Lose Short Story Competitions
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How Not to Lose Short Story Competitions

thresholds23 June 20141 July 2014

LYNDA NASH teaches us some useful tips on submitting to short story competitions, advice learnt the hard way: ‘So why did my precious literary effort fail to make an impression? Did it fit the competition criteria? No. Did it open with a bang? Again, no. Did it have a less-than-self-indulgent plot? No, it didn’t…’

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