Your child can WIN a family weekend away!

Think parent power!  You work so hard for those kids ...

Now, if you can get them to write a short story for the Herald newspaper's competition, they can repay you by winning a family weekend away!  A win-win situation, I'd say.  Here are the details.

They have to submit their story by 14th January, and must be aged 17 or younger.

More Writing Competitions

Do you write?  (More than essays and assignments, I mean!)  

Then here are some holiday activities for you, from writer Morgen Bailey - lots of writing competitions.  Sharpen that pencil, plug in the laptop, settle down with a tablet in Costa ...

BBC National Short Story Award ('The Award is now open for submissions from publishers, agents and published authors from the UK. The closing date for entries is 11 March 2013 at 10am.')

Writing competition: short story (unpublished writers)

The White Review Short Story Prize

Never had a publishing deal?  This competition is for you.  Read on ... (And don't tell me musos and actors don't write fiction. Some do!)