Submissions are invited for Love Letters to London: Writing Competition 2024 by The London Society. The last date of submission is December 24, 2024.
About The London Society
The Society is for all those who love London. It was founded in 1912 by a group of eminent Londoners concerned about the lack of planning in the capital.
Competition Details
Dust off the keyboard or get tapping on your mobile, because there is more than £4,000 of prizes in the London Society’s free to enter writing competition “Love Letters to London”.
Now in its fourth year, this competition is open to everyone to celebrate our wonderful, fantastic, infuriating city in prose or poetry. Open to all ages, and to all writing styles – fiction, poetry, essays and reportage – whether you live in the capital or not. There are special categories for under 18s, as well as prizes for schools.
If you want to walk away with one of the four first prizes of £500 – and see your work published by the London Society – get writing your own ‘Love Letter to London’.
Theme
As 2024 represents the 60th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s sermon at St Paul’s, we are theming the competition around: DREAMS FOR LONDON
Categories
There will be four categories:
- Aged 11 and under.
- 12-18 year olds.
- Open – all other entrants.
- Poetry.
Prizes
The prizes for the ‘Open’ and ‘Poetry’ categories will be as follows:
- Category winner £500.
- Category second £250.
- Category third £100.
The prizes for the ’11 and under’ and ’12-18′ categories will be as follows:
- Category winner £500.
- Four runners up prizes of £150 each.
In addition, the school of the two category winners will receive £250 of books of their choice.
Rules
- The competition is open to anyone aged under 18 (‘11 and under’ and ‘12-18’ categories) and 18 or over at the time of entering (‘open’ and ‘poetry’ categories). International entries are welcome.
- All entries must have a title and must not exceed 500 words or for poems 40 lines in length (excluding title). Entries are to be around the theme of “making connections” on any aspect of London’s past, present or future. It can be reportage, an historical essay, a ‘think piece’, a spot of futurology, a work of fiction, a poem.
- Entries must be the entrant’s original work.
- Entries can have been published elsewhere but must fit the brief and have been written in 2024.
- Entries must be a Word or Google Docs file with title (no PDFs). All entries will be judged anonymously, so the first page of the entry should have the title of your entry, and your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address.
- There is a limit of three on the number of entries a single entrant can make. 8. No one can win more than one category.
How to Submit?
Interested participants can submit online via this link.
Submission Deadline
The last date of submission is December 24, 2024.
Contact
Email: curator[at]londonsociety[dot]org[dot]uk
