Editor’s Note
We no longer run membership for reasons explained here. This page simply remains to give a historical context to the development of our Award.
Membership is a good option for submitting multiple entries. At £5.00 for three months, members can submit an unlimited number of entries for £4.00 each. Membership can also be used to spread the cost of a single first entry between two smaller payments.
Membership reduces the cost of multiple entries
Since membership costs £5 and allows an unlimited number of entries at £4.00 each, the more entries a member makes, the less the total cost per entry. The table shows the savings.
| Member cost per entry according to number of entries | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number of Entries | The Maths | Cost per Entry |
| One Entry | (5+4)/1 | £9.00 |
| Two Entries | (5+4+4)/2 | £6.50 each |
| Three Entries | (5+4+4+4)/3 | £5.67 each |
| Four Entries | (5+4+4+4+4)/4 | £5.25 each |
Membership splits the cost of a single entry
Since the £5 membership lasts for three months, a member can wait a period of time before making a first entry. In effect, the cost of a single £9 standard entry is split in two parts; a £5 membership payment followed by a £4 entry fee up to three months later.
Annemarie is an Irish-born novelist and short story writer, now living in London. Her awards for short fiction include both the Bryan MacMahon and Michael McLaverty short story competitions (Ireland) and the Columbia Journal fiction prize (US). She has also been a prizewinner in the Bridport, Fish, UPP Short FICTION, and KWS Hilary Mantel short story prizes, amongst others. Her novel Siren is forthcoming from Hutchinson (Penguin Random House UK) in Spring 2016.