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2010 Momaya Short Story Competition

Accepting Entries Now - Closing Date April 30th, 2010

The Competition:
Momaya Press's Short Story Competition is open to writers of any nationality writing in English, and also offers the opportunity for winners to be published, in the Momaya Annual Review 2010.

The Prizes:
$200 (£110) first
$100 (£55) second
$50 (£30) third
7 honourable mentions

All ten winners will be published in the
Momaya Annual Review 2010, which will be available to purchase online in December.

The Judges:

Andy Callus is a newswire journalist who works as a copy editor for Reuters in London's Canary Wharf. He began his working life in 1980s Fleet Street, and has reported for Reuters and other newswires in Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore and Hanoi.

Nina Steiger is the Writers’ Centre Director at Soho Theatre. She has worked as a director, dramaturg and script reader in the US and UK, developing new work by established and emerging writers with such companies as Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Stage & Film, Hartford Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, and others. She has been Producing associate for Youngblood, The Playwrights’ Unit and proto-type theater. As a playwright, she is the recipient of the Clark Lewis Prize and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission for The True Facts as well as a developmental bursary for Slangrivier which was premiered at the NY International Fringe Festival.

A former Haymarket Journalist Of The Year (2000), Matt Allen is a freelance music and football writer and author for Harper Collins Publishing. He has previously worked as a Features Editor (Q magazine), Associate Editor (FourFourTwo magazine), Editor (Q Glastonbury Daily, The Tottenham Hotspur Opus, The Diego Maradona Opus) and Books Review Editor (Q magazine). His work appears in Q, Mojo, Company, The Guardian, Loaded, GQ, and FourFourTwo. His 2005 book, The Crazy Gang (Highdown) was a Sunday Times Book Of The Week.

Kay Peddle was born in South Africa and moved to the UK in 2006. She has worked at a small South African literary press as a copy-editor, completed an MA in International Publishing at Oxford Brookes University, an internship at The World Bank and has done reading for a leading literary agency based in Oxford. She is currently the editorial assistant at The Bodley Head, an imprint at Random House.

The Format:

• Entries may be up to 3,000 words long

• Any subject or style is welcome

• The competition is open to writers from all countries,
   but entries must be written in English

How to Submit:

• Your short story must be submitted via email and payment must be completed.

• You may submit more than one short story

• Every short story must be accompanied by an entry fee of $12 (£8). Cheques in British Pounds may be sent via mail by clicking the UK otherwise, payment must be made online via credit card.

Need inspiration for your story?
Our theme this year is "Family."
Every year the Momaya Annual Review has a different theme. While entries for the short story competition can be on any fictional topic, the review gets its cohesion from stories, poems and artwork focusing on a central theme, interspersed amongst the contest winners' stories. The 2010 Annual Review will feature fiction in a variety of categories from the winners of the Momaya Short Story Competition and winners of Momaya Awards, as well as a stunning collection of photographs, poems and short stories exploring "Family".
Read more...

Additional conditions:

The winning stories must be available for the Review, and therefore must not have been published previously. Copyright remains with the author. The judges' verdict is final. No correspondence will be  entered into once work has been submitted. Stories cannot be
altered or changed after they have been entered. Any story submitted may be published in the Momaya Annual Review 2010, whether or not they have won.

Read what the judges, authors, and actors have to say about previous years' Momaya Short Story Competitions and Annual Reviews

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