Crime drama channel Alibi has teamed up with HarperCollins, Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and TV Times to uncover the UK’s hidden crime writing talent. Alibi’s Search for a New Crime Writer competition asks budding writers to submit a short crime fiction story via the Alibi website .
The competition closes at midday on Sunday 16th May 2010 so you have plenty of time to get writing and get your entry submitted.
Internationally bestselling crime author Stuart MacBride has lent his support to the competition by providing entrants with the story’s opening line, designed to spark your creativity.
‘In my experience, those who beg for mercy seldom deserve it’.
The aim of the literary search is to champion emerging crime writers and give them the opportunity for their work to be put in front of leading industry figures. There will be a shortlist of three writers with one eventual winner and two runners-up.
Internationally bestselling crime author Stuart MacBride has lent his support to the competition by providing entrants with the story’s opening line, designed to spark your creativity.
‘In my experience, those who beg for mercy seldom deserve it’.
The aim of the literary search is to champion emerging crime writers and give them the opportunity for their work to be put in front of leading industry figures. There will be a shortlist of three writers with one eventual winner and two runners-up.
All three finalists will win tickets to Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate where the great and the good of the crime fiction world gather. Finalists will rub shoulders with some of the biggest names in the business as well as having the chance to attend crime writing talks and creative workshops. The overall winner will be announced on Thursday 22nd July during a special reception at the beginning of the festival.
HarperCollins will create a special e-edition of the winner’s story, this will be made available as a download. The victor will also win a Sony eReader as well as an enviable library of over 100 crime novels.
The shortlist of three titles will be made available on the Alibi website for public vote from Tuesday 1st June through to Friday 25th June. After the public voting closes the stories will then be subject to a final round of judging by an expert panel, including Stuart MacBride and representatives from Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, HarperCollins and Alibi. The combination of judges and public vote will decide the eventual winner.
Full Terms and Conditions here.
HarperCollins will create a special e-edition of the winner’s story, this will be made available as a download. The victor will also win a Sony eReader as well as an enviable library of over 100 crime novels.
The shortlist of three titles will be made available on the Alibi website for public vote from Tuesday 1st June through to Friday 25th June. After the public voting closes the stories will then be subject to a final round of judging by an expert panel, including Stuart MacBride and representatives from Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, HarperCollins and Alibi. The combination of judges and public vote will decide the eventual winner.
Full Terms and Conditions here.
5 comments:
Quote: Where you submit your entry to this site...by such submission you grant UKTV and HarperCollins Publishers Limited each a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce and publish, distribute and make available to the public your entry in any media, now known or later developed, for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content.
This seems unnecessarily comprehensive. Do I understand it correctly to mean that if I enter a story, even if it does not win, I no longer have ownership of that story?
So I wouldn't be able to enter it for another competition, or publish it on my website. And in the remote eventuality that UKTV decided to use my story/characters, they could do so without even asking me? Or paying me?
I think I'll pass on this one.
Agreed, Lexi; just how desperate do they think we are, that our rights are virtually non-existent? And look at the shambles of the Act on C02 competition; whoever is running that wants to get off their behind and answer some of the questions about disappearing entries that people have made - and why did they remove the index for the 300 entries? Now nobody knows what stories are there, and if their entry is indeed included - shambles!
Dear Lexi,
I sent you an earlier COMMENT which might not have reached you? I have written a 300 page novel which has been edited by my friend Colin Dexter.
Can I enter the competition with the first 80,000 words and if I win, will you then publish the whole novel and pay me 10% royalty?
if your answe is in the affirmative I will send you the first 80,000 words and the cover, on the clear understanding that you will publish the whole novel ready for the 2010 Xmas market.
Yours sincerely, John van den Bergh
John, the HC/UKTV contest is for a short story, not a novel.
And I am not the person to publish your book. What you need for that is a publisher. Or you could self-publish, of course...
But perhaps you are pulling my leg.
The link to Alibi website doesn't work, but if you click on the link for terms and conditions you can get there.
Charles
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