The Frances Copping Prize 2024

Submissions are now invited for our annual Fiction Competition, The Frances Copping Memorial Prize 2024, named in fond remembrance of our Lifetime President who sadly passed away in 2020.

The competition is open to everyone, members of Hay Writers’ Circle and non-members too. Pieces of 500-1500 words on any fiction theme are accepted. Closing date for entries is Tuesday 7th January 2025. Prizes are awarded for first, second and third place.

This year we are delighted to announce that our judge is the wonderful Adele Evershed.

Adele Evershed is a Welsh writer. Her work has been widely published in journals and anthologies such as Full House Literary, Grey Sparrow Journal, Free Flash Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Anti Heroin Chic, Gyroscope, and Janus Lit. Adele has been nominated for the Best of the Net for poetry and the Pushcart Prize for poetry and short fiction. Adele has two poetry collections, Turbulence in Small Spaces (Finishing Line Press) and The Brink of Silence (Bottlecap Press). She has two novella-in-flash published by Alien Buddha Press, Wannabe and Schooled, and her short story collection, Suffer/Rage, is available from Dark Myth Press.

Adele is also one of the editors for a new lit mag, Thin Skin, which looks to give older writers an opportunity to be published. 

Please follow the guidelines listed on our COMPETITIONS page if you would like to enter.

You can contact writers4haycomp@gmail.com if you have any questions or queries. 

Click of the following highlighted link to download the entry form :

GOOD LUCK!

Happy 101st Birthday Lynn

This week would not be compete without celebrating the 101st birthday of former HWC Chairperson, Lynn Trowbridge.

A remarkable and inspirational person in every sense of the word, Lynn, looking lovely in lilac, continues to enjoy life to the full.

Emma writes, “She was our HWC Chairperson for well over a decade, keeping the group writing and moving forward under her guidance. Of course, a decade ago Hay & District Writers’ Circle was very different; much smaller in number, meeting at member’s homes, publishing yearly magazines which were sold locally and just dipping our tentative online toe in the waters of the world wide web.

Our immense gratitude to Lynn and all those who shaped the HWC in the past cannot be overstated and we thank them for all their incredible efforts. “

The Hay Writers’ Circle journey certainly continues – onwards and upwards!

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