CURRENT COMPETITIONS

SENTINEL LITERARY QUARTERLY COMPETITIONS

Poetry Competition (April 2010)

Short Story Competition (April 2010)

EXCEL FOR CHARITY COMPETITIONS

Build Africa (Excel for Charity) Poetry Competition 2010

OTHER COMPETITIONS

Earlyworks Press Competitions for 2010

PAST COMPETITIONS

JUDGES' REPORTS

PREVIOUS COMPETITION

The results of our January 2010 Poetry and Short Story Competitions have been announced.

Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition

(January 2010)

This competition was judged by Munayem Mayenin, editor of Poets' Letter Magazine and Festival Director, London Poetry Festival.

Unfortunately, Mr Mayenin sent in the results of the competition without a Judge's report due to pressures of time.

The winners of the January Poetry Competition are as follows:

First Prize: "Instamatic" by Noel Williams.

Second Prize: "Moon-Search" by Mandy Pannett

Third Prize: "South and West" by Paul Jeffcutt.

The Highly Commended Entries are:

"Untitled: It is not sleek and smooth" by Neil Bowie

"Aiming to Miss" by Jonathan Child

"Best" by Charles Evans

"Henry's Gone" by Will Daunt

and

"Night Shift" by Vanessa Young

Sentinel Literary Quarterly Short Story Competition

(January 2010)

This competition was judged by Unoma Azuah, the award-winning author of Sky-High Flames and emerged with this result.

First Prize: "Unmusical Bumps"

                by Andrew Campbell-Kearsey

Second Prize: "Demons" by Claire Godden-Rowland

Third Prize: "Diluted Cappuccino"

                  by Andrew Campbell-Kearsey.

It is always interesting when a judge, reading blind without any information on the writers choose the same author for more than one prize in a competition.

For details of the Highly commended stories and judge's report click here

Started in July 2009, Sentinel Literary Quarterly Competitions are scheduled to hold on an on-going basis, (in January, April, July and October), to reward creative excellence with literary honour and cash prizes. The competitions in fiction and poetry are not free to enter. The prize money is generated from the entry fees, and after all prizes have been paid, if there is anything left, it goes to help keep the Sentinel Literary Quarterly in publication, and free-to-read.

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