How to Win Writing Competitions (and Make Money)

An extraordinary book. The only one you need if you're serious about making money from your writing.
-- Keir Nathan Thomas - Editor, journalist and publisher

A clear, no-nonsense step-by-step guide containing all the things I wish I had known when I started out.
-- Calum Kerr - Director of National Flash Fiction Day and author of Lost Luggage

Delightfully readable and full of helpful and sensible advice. This is the book I've been waiting for all my writing life.
-- Sue Barnard - Award-winning poet and editor at Crooked Cat

Cathy Bryant: "I've won fourteen writing competitions recently, and been runner-up in countless others. I received £300 ($457) for a poem that took me a couple of hours to research and another couple of hours to write, and $250 (£164) for a single sentence of fiction. For a 100-word story, I was sent £350 ($533) and a hamper of breakfast goodies. For a single sentence, I won a trip to Italy. Bundles and boxes of books and other prizes have weighed down my postwoman, and the publicity following one of my wins (that publicity including a radio interview to 700,000 people) sent sales of my first book soaring into profit. It happened for me, and if you use all the information in this book then there's a good chance that it can happen for you too."

How to Win Writing Competitions (and Make Money) does exactly what it says on the tin — multiple award-winning poet, short story writer, novelist and brains behind the popular Comps and Calls website Cathy Bryant explains the techniques and tricks that can be used to build-up a collection of writing awards. And aside from the actual rewards you get, including cash, winning competitions can lead to significant career opportunities. 130 page paperback. ISBN: 978-0-9565819-5-2

Cathy Bryant has won 14 literary awards, including the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Prize in 2012. She has blogged for the Huffington Post, and her stories and poems have appeared in over 100 different publications, including Pop-shot, The Moth, The Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Futuredaze. In 2014 her poem The Poetry Diet (from her first collection, Contains Strong Language and Scenes of a Sexual Nature) was featured on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please with Roger McGough. She is one of the judges for National Flash Fiction Day’s short flash fiction competition, and co-editor of three volumes of Best of Manchester Poets. Cathy's latest poetry collection is Look At All the Women (Mother’s Milk), and her novel Pride and Regicide was recently published by Crooked Cat. She runs the Comps and Calls writer’s website (www. compsandcalls.com) and lives just outside the city of Manchester, UK. Learn more at www.cathybryant.co.uk.