2012 Unbound Press

2012 Unbound Press Short Story Award
Guest Judge: Lucy Luck
www.unboundpress.com/competitions
Closing Date: 30 April 2012
Literary agent Lucy Luck started in publishing in 1997, and worked for over 8 years at Rogers, Coleridge and White Ltd. In 2006, she set up Lucy Luck Associates, an agency focusing on writers of quality fiction and non-fiction. During her time at RCW she was fortunate to work with many talented writers including Julie Myerson, Anne Enright, Bernard MacLaverty, Miles Kington, Stella Tillyard, Richard Overy, Lisa Jardine, and Donna Tartt. More Info...

1st Prize – £500, 2nd Prize – £250, 3rd Prize – £125
All winners will be published in the 2012 print anthologyand receive 1 free copy of the anthology
Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
Honourable Mentions – offer to publish in the quarterly ejournal Spilling Ink Review
1,500 Word Max, No Theme, All Genres Welcome (see more guidelines...)
Entry fee (per entry): £5 or €8 or $10Enter Online or Via Post

2012 Unbound Press Flash Fiction Award
Guest Judge: Zoë Strachan
www.unboundpress.com/competitions
Closing Date: 30 June 2012
Zoë Strachan is the author of Negative Space (won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award) and Spin Cycle (both published by Picador). Her most recent novel, Ever Fallen in Love, is published by Sandstone Press and has been shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize and longlisted for London Book Award Zoë also writes short stories, essays, journalism and drama. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. More info...
1st Prize – £500, 2nd Prize – £250, 3rd Prize – £125
All winners will be published in the 2012 print anthologyand receive 1 free copy of the anthology
Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
Honourable Mentions – offer to publish in the quarterly ejournal Spilling Ink Review
500 Word Max, No Theme, All Genres Welcome (see more guidelines...)
Entry fee:1 entry £5 / 3 entries £10, 1 entry €8 / 3 entries €16, 1 entry $10 / 3 entries $20Enter Online or Via Post

2012 Unbound Press Nonfiction Award
Guest Judge: Iain Bamforth
www.unboundpress.com/competitions
Closing Date: 31 August 2012
Iain Bamforth grew up in Glasgow, where he attended medical school and indelibly acquired what Robert Louis Stevenson called “the strong Scots accent of mind.” In a varied career as doctor and writer, he has worked as a general practitioner, hospital doctor (in the Ameri­can Hospital of Paris as well as in the Australian outback), editor and translator, and since 2005 as a public health consultant in western Papua, the southern Philippines and other remote parts of south-east Asia. His publications include four collections of poems, a history of modern medicine as told through literature, and a collection of essays on European intellectual history. More info...
1st Prize – £500, 2nd Prize – £250, 3rd Prize – £125
All winners will be published in the 2012 print anthologyand receive 1 free copy of the anthology
Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
Honourable Mentions – offer to publish in the quarterly ejournal Spilling Ink Review
2,200 Word Max, No Theme, All Genres Welcome (see more guidelines...)
Entry fee (per entry): £5 or €8 or $10Enter Online or Via Post

2012 Unbound Press Poetry Award
Guest Judge: Michael Schmidt
www.unboundpress.com/competitions
Closing Date: 31 October 2012
Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL was born in Mexico and studied at the universities of Harvard and Oxford before settling in England. Michael is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow, where he is also convenor of the Creative Writing M Litt Programme. He is a founder and the Editorial and Managing Director of Carcanet Press and founder and general Editor of PN Review More info...
1st Prize – £500, 2nd Prize – £250, 3rd Prize – £125
All winners will be published in the 2012 print anthologyand receive 1 free copy of the anthology
Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
Honourable Mentions – offer to publish in the quarterly ejournal Spilling Ink Review
40-line Max, No Theme, All Genres Welcome (see more guidelines...)
Entry fee:1 entry £5 / 3 entries £10, 1 entry €8 / 3 entries €16, 1 entry $10 / 3 entries $20Enter Online or Via Post

2012 Unbound Press Best Novel Award
www.unboundpress.com/competitions
Closing Date: 30 November 2012
1st Prize – £1000, 2nd Prize – £500, 3rd Prize – £250
10,000 Word Guide, No Theme, All Genres Welcome (see more guidelines...)
Entry fee (per entry): £25 or €30 or $40
Enter Online or Via Post
We ask that you submit the first 10,000 words of your novel for consideration. This is just a guideline. If you find that you need to go over or under this guideline to reach a natural stopping point, like a chapter ending or a section break, that’s acceptable. Shortlisted entrants will be notified no later than January 31, 2013 at which time you will be asked to supply the balance of your novel. Our goal is to announce the winners no later than March, 2013. Please note: all entries will be considered for publication but publication is not part of the cash prize.