Forsyth Barr Short Story Competition

The Cambridge Autumn Festival Trust is delighted to announce that the Cambridge Autumn Festival 2012 will include the inaugural Forsyth Barr Short Story Competition. Entry for the competition opens 16 November 2011 and the closing date is 31 January 2012, with winners announced during the Autumn Festival 21-25 March 2012.

Cambridge Autumn Festival Trustee Alan Milton said, "Having a short story competition is a perfect complement to the festival events. We want to encourage budding writers and we hope that this will be the start of an annual competition, with a different theme each year."

Forsyth Barr Cambridge Manager and Investment Advisor Michelle Rolley said, "As a New Zealand owned firm providing a full range of investment services including sharebroking, portfolio management, research and investment banking, Forsyth Barr has always sought to provide meaningful and relevant support back into New Zealand communities. From sports to the arts, we are proud to be actively involved in a wide range of local community events, and contributing back to the people who live and work there. We are pleased to be able to support the Cambridge Autumn Festival by sponsoring the Forsyth Barr Short Story Competition."

The theme for the short story competition this year is 'autumn', and the organisers are looking forward to stories that will add to the celebration and experience of autumn. The overall winner will receive the first prize of $1000 and their story published in the Cambridge Edition, while second prize is $500 and third prize $250. Each entry must be accompanied by the official entry form, which is in this month's Urban and Country or downloaded from here:

Download the Application Form here

 

Full Terms and Conditions

1. Entry is open only to living, New Zealand permanent residents.
2. Stories must be typed in English. The theme is autumn. Stories must be the author's
original work and must not have been published before or submitted for publication
or entered into another competition.
3. Stories are to be maximum 2500 words. All manuscripts are to have double-line
spacing and be accompanied by the official entry form. The entry form will be in
the Urban and Country newspaper on 16 November 2011, in the Cambridge
Edition on 23 November 2011 and on the Cambridge Autumn Festival website
www.cambridgeautumnfestival.co.nz.
4. An entrant can submit more than one story but each story must be supplied
individually with a completed entry form. The stories must be submitted by the
author. The competition opens 16 November 2011 and entries are to be posted to
Forsyth Barr Short Story Competition, c/- Cambridge Autumn Festival, PO Box 369,
Cambridge 3450. Entries are to be received no later than 5pm, 31 January 2012. No
electronic entries will be accepted. Manuscripts will not be returned to entrants.
5. Employees and immediate family of Forsyth Barr, Urban and Country, Cambridge
Edition and the Cambridge Autumn Festival organisers are ineligible to enter.
6. The three winners will be contacted by phone. The winning entries will be announced
at the Cambridge Autumn Festival, in the Cambridge Edition 28 March 2012, on
the Cambridge Autumn Festival website and in other Cambridge Autumn Festival
promotional material.
7. Urban and Country and/or Cambridge Edition have the right to publish the stories
without compensation. Cambridge Autumn Festival has the right to publish the
stories on the www.cambridgeautumnfestival.co.nz website without compensation.
Stories remain the property of the entrant.
8. The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
9. By entering the competition, entrants agree to the competition's terms
and conditions.