New Members: Please read these hints before submitting scripts.

Existing Members: Please try to enter every competition - think of them as stretching exercises.

Please do not put your name on the story or poem or the cover sheet.

Your name and address and the title of the piece should be submitted to the In-House Competition Secretary on a separate piece of paper, which can be removed and logged in before the entries are sent, anonymously, to then adjudicator.

All competition entries should be printed in 12 point Times New Roman or similar plain typeface in black ink and on one side of A4 sheets of white paper, double spaced, with one inch margins all round.

If you are posting an entry, do so in plenty of time to get there before the closing date.

Do not add an extra space between paragraphs or different speeches in dialogue. Allow a 'time break' of a blank line only to mark an inch or five spaces (apart from the initial paragraph of a chapter).

Do not submit scripts which are over the word limit - or under if a minimum is specified.

Each page should be numbered, preferable as Page 1 of 4, or however many pages are included. It is helpful if the title of the story appears next to the page number, and this can be at the top right-hand corner or at the bottom of the page, separated from the rest of the printing by a blank line.

Most judges prefer not to see a cover sheet giving the title of the story, the name of the competition, the word limit and the actual word count, ie. state the the exact number of words in the story. Do not put your name on this cover sheet. We do not separate the pages of a story and its cover sheet, and they can be paper-clipped at the top left corner to save any going astray.

Entries must be handed to the In-House Competition Secretary on the closing date of the competition, or posted to arrive at her house on that morning.

Only one entry per person.

Paid-up members - including postal members - only.

We also run a 'league table' for members entering our competitions. You get a point for entering, and seven for winning, five for coming second and three for the third place entry. A Competition Cup is awarded to the member with the most points gained during the year.