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!
Prague....the city of a thousand spires Kyoto....the city of a thousand shrines Cairo....the city of a thousand minarets Derby....the city of a thousand dreams
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 judges can be viewed at this link.
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.
2008 Winners and Award Ceremony
Our judges have a
fair amount of reading to do and decision-making to undertake, so we
have given them a number of weeks in order to complete this. Winners and
commended writers will then be informed of their success. This year's award ceremony
will be held on 10th October 2008 in the city of Derby. The venue
will be announced very shortly.
Every day our website features 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 Mary Oliver. We list all previously featured works in our Archive. Feel free to browse - we're sure you'll find something of interest! Please note that our website will not now be updated during our summer break until September 1st.
Entries to our 2008 competition can no longer be accepted, as we have an annual closing date of May 31st. Our judges will now be taking their time over the summer reading entries and making decisions. Winning stories and poems will receive cash prizes of £500, £250 and £150 for first, second and third places respectively in each category. Winning works will be reproduced on this website. In addition, judges will draw attention in each category to their six other favourite works.
You can contact us most easily by email at info@cityofderbywritingcompetition.org.uk Alternatively, we can be contacted by telephone on +44 (0)1332 725362. Please use the answerphone if you don't get a response straight away!