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Sentinel Literary Quarterly
Poetry
and Short Story
Competitions
The Sentinel Literary Quarterly writing
competition series takes place every three months in Poetry
and Short Story categories. With each competition, we aim to
encourage the habit of regular quality writing, and to
encourage writers new and established, to pitch their
talents and skills against those of their peers for literary
glory and of course a little bit of cash, which certainly
does not hurt. The cash prizes currently stand at £150, £60,
and £40 for First, Second and Third Prizes respectively.
Publishing Opportunity
 When
the competitions series began in July 2009 with poetry only,
we published the winning entries first online in Sentinel
Literary Quarterly (SLQ) magazine, and later the were
published in print in Champion Poems. With the introduction
of short stories in January 2010, the winning works were
still published in SLQ online and also in Sentinel Champions
(formerly Champion Poems) print magazine. An important
change is that from the October 2010 competitions, the
winning works, though announced in SLQ online, will now only
appear in print in Sentinel Champions. The time gap between
announcement of results and publication allows our guest
editors to make perfect the winning stories as much as
possible for publication.
Sentinel Champions is available to
purchase as a paperback or e-book from
www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/champions
Entry Fees
Entry fees remain the same at 1/£3.00,
5/£12.00 for poems, and 1/£5.00, 2/£9.00 and 3/£12.00 for
stories. However subscribers to Sentinel Champions get a
substantial 15% of the entry fees.
Subscribe to Sentinel Champions at
http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/champions/subscribe.html
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