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How to Win Short Story Competitions: Second Edition Paperback – August 23, 2018

by Dave Haslett (Author), Geoff Nelder (Author)
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Two highly experienced, award-winning writers and short story competition judges share everything they know about entering, judging and (most importantly) winning short story competitions, in an easy-to-follow Q&A format.Find out:Exactly what the judges are looking for.How the scoring system works.How to score highly in every category.What impresses judges - and what turns them off.How to write exceptional short stories.Which competitions give you the best chance of winning.How to avoid being disqualified.And much more.Also included are two award-winning short stories from Jon Pinnock and Geoff Nelder.

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Dave Haslett is the founder of ideas4writers, the ideas and inspiration website for writers. He won his first writing contest at the age of 7, and has judged several contests on the ideas4writers website that each attracted hundreds of entries.Geoff Nelder is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. He was the fiction judge for the Whittaker Prize in 2009 and 2012 and the FicFun international fiction contest in 2018.
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    1719861668
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1719861663
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 23, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 140 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1719861668
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1719861663
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.32 x 8 inches
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Dave Haslett

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Dave Haslett lives in Devon, England, and is the founder and Creative and Technical Director of ideas4writers - the ideas and inspiration website (www.ideas4writers.com) - which he established in 2002.

His books include The Fastest Way to Write Your Book, The Fastest Way to Get Ideas, How to Win Short Story Competitions (co-written with Geoff Nelder), and the annual The Date-A-Base Book series which each list thousands of newsworthy historical anniversaries (months or years in advance) for you to write about (and make money from!)

His 35 collections of ideas for writers are available on Kindle (and also as PDFs from ideas4writers.com).

Although primarily a non-fiction writer, Dave is also the author of several novels, which he writes under a different name.

He has a postgraduate degree in computing and is a member of Mensa. He won a poetry award at the age of 7 and wrote and illustrated his first book (an encyclopaedia of freshwater tropical fish) at the age of 13.

When time allows, Dave is also a reasonably good artist and a composer of electronic music, and enjoys going on really long walks with his partner, Lorraine.

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    3.0 out of 5 stars Nice read but probably not what you need or want.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2020
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    How to Win Short Story Competition is a book for people that have next to no experience writing fiction and dare I say it, maybe next to no experience reading it either. There’s very little here for somebody that has a decent amount of experience writing which would be more forgiving if the title wasn’t “How to Win Short Story Competitions.” I don’t expect to read a book like that and immediately be an award winning writer. No book, no anything can do that. I just wanted to say that to make a point. The advice/answers from the Q and A format are for the most part fairly generic and don’t go as in depth in answering the question as they should. The book kind of makes up for it by including two award winning short stories that won after they received critique from one of the authors of this book, but without seeing the original version of said work, I feel like the help it could give inspiring writers is very limited. What saved this read for me was the fact that it lists some other short story authors that have some incredibly unique descriptive writing skills that is unmatched, at least to me. So now, I have some short story collections I can go check out. The one thing I did learn is the fact that judges like traditionally formatted stories. I’m a kind of writer that likes to play with word space as well as sometimes writing sentences on the right and capitalizing and changing the font of certain words. I have a style to it, so it’s not there just for the sake of it. I’ve even had people tell me it helps the story. Knowing judges don’t like that was a big help for me. If it wasn’t for that, the urge to return this book would be stronger. I just don’t have the heart cause of how cheap it is (I paid 4$) and because that one tip really did help me out.
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