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 competitions By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on June 10th, 2011
Have your funny story included in the second edition of Forced to Fly. I would like to include 20 new pieces of writing of up to 1,000 words in length. They can be on any specific incident or any theme that could only have happened to you because you were living abroad. Like how amusing your life became when you lived in Holland and began to travel everywhere by bicycle, or how you entered into the local Oktoberfest with more gusto than was appreciated, or the pickle you found yourself in when driving in India. Entries will close on August 31st 2011. [...]
competitions By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on May 6th, 2011
The ExpatWomen confessions page has been a winner from the start. Here, brave, anonymous but hurting women living overseas could ask their questions of an expert and receive lengthy, immensely helpful replies in exchange from the professionals. This anthology contains 50 of them. 50 questions that I’d wager many of us STARS (that stands for Spouses Travelling and Relocating Successfully) have longed to ask at one time or another. Questions that need [...]
competitions By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on March 22nd, 2011
I love to promote writing competitions here on my blog and here comes another one! Angela Williams is a one time student of mine who has now won competitions of her own, so I was delighted to hear about this one. More excitingly, perhaps, this one has the theme of food and drink! So what could be more exciting than combining my two favourite things – food and [...]
competitions By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on February 25th, 2011
Only last week I was asked to judge three writing competitions! I find it an honour to be asked and really enjoyed being a judge for the YoungWritersCompetition and the ExpatYouthScholarship last year. Seems 2011 will be even busier.
I always love it when the arts are combined and my recent post about how Alaine Handa [...]
expatriate stuff By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on December 14th, 2010
Lois and Bill Breckon are running writing competition, called The Posara Prize and that has a whopping £1,000 prize! All you have to do is write a piece of fiction or non-fiction on the subject of a foreigner in Italy and you are in with a chance. I’m not actually sure of the deadline, but I do know that they want entries to be a maximum of 2,000 words. [...]
expatriate stuff By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on August 16th, 2010
I am a big fan of writing competitions, particularly when the winners get published. Earlier this year I was a judge for the Netherlands Young Writer Competition and the winners had their entries published in a super book about friendship. A week or so ago I judged the finalists in the Life in a Flying House competition where winners earn $10,000 from the Expat Youth Scholarship and publication online. I urge you to look at the website and read last year’s entries while you are waiting for this year’s results (out 13 September).
This week, I have two more competitions to tell you about – and this time they are for grown ups!
Entering a competition has many six [...]
books By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on August 3rd, 2010
how a successful writer nurtures young writing talent by judging competitions and mentoring teenagers to build a [...]
inspiration By Jo Parfitt, Summertime Publishing, on July 12th, 2010
writers should read other books in their genre. Five reasons why they must be inspired to copycat those who went [...]
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