The City of Derby Short Story and Poetry Competition
This is the homepage of the City of Derby Short Story and Poetry Competition. Our site is updated daily. We hope you enjoy looking at what is here!
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Derby is a city centrally located in England in the United Kingdom. It has served as the location for numerous historic events, and over the years has been the home of many accomplished writers. One of our webpages gives a great deal of detail about Derby, including a considerable number of links to other websites associated with talented sons and daughters of the city and region. Click here to find out more.
The identities of our 2008 winners and commended writers can be viewed here. Follow this link for details of the 2008 Poetry Competition finalists, and this link for details of the 2008 Short Story Competition finalists.
2007 Competition
The identities of our 2007 winners and commended writers can be viewed here. Follow this link for details of the 2007 Poetry Competition finalists, and this link for details of the 2007 Short Story Competition finalists.
2006 Competition
For details of the winners of the 2006 competition, click here.
2009 Competition
A wonderful award ceremony has been held in the city of Derby on October 9th 2009, at the Cathedral Centre. Our judges Pat Borthwick (poetry) and Sara Maitland (short stories) have announced their decisions, and the winning works have now been added to this website. Follow this link for details of the 2009 Poetry finalists and this link for details of the 2009 Short Story finalists. Winning story writers and poets have received cash prizes of £500, £250 and £150 for first, second and third places respectively in each category. Congratulations to all, and many thanks to all who helped make the evening special.
2010 Competition
We expect details of our 2010 competition to be made known here during December (closing date 31st May 2010). Check back later for details!
Our website is regularly updated with familiar and some not-so-familiar poems and short stories from writers across the world. Our latest addition can be seen by clicking on this link -Words - which today features Pablo Neruda. We list all previously featured works in our Archive. Feel free to browse - we're sure you'll find something of interest!
You can contact us most easily by email at this address (you need to re-interpret it into the usual format):-
info AT cityofderbywritingcompetition DOT org DOT uk
Alternatively, we can be contacted by telephone on +44 (0)7505 069009 or by post at
PO Box 7065, Derby, DE1 OAD