320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.
The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk
320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.
The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk
320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.
The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk
320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.
The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk
320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.
The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk
320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.
The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk
320 acres of woodlands, parks and manicured grounds, with log cabins, Evergreen Spa, tennis court, and championship golf course. A perfect place to relax and recuperate.
The beautiful setting and range of facilities make it one of the most popular wedding venues in the region. www.kenwick-park.co.uk
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
By submitting your entry you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.
All entries must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but stories must be withdrawn from this contest immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee will not be refunded. (Note: If your story is posted on a personal blog, please remove it before submitting.)
Entries that fall outside the parameters of the set out in the submission guidelines will be disqualified. The entry fee will not be refunded.
Current and former employees of Hammond House Publishing and their family members are not eligible. Previous contest entrants, including winners, are free to submit.
Entrants agree to their submitted manuscripts being published and or performed as required by Hammond House publishing for a period of 12 months from the date of winners being announced.
All revenue from the sale of published work from competition entries will be retained by Hammond House Publishing Ltd to contribute to the cost of administrating the competition and other activities.
Copyright of all manuscripts submitted remains with the Author, who is free to publish their work elsewhere on the announcement of competition results unless their work is chosen for publication, in which case they are required not to publish elsewhere until 12 months after first being published by Hammond House Publication Ltd in which their work is included. This only applies to competition entries and does not include other work submitted by members for publication on the Hammond House site, for which the Author would receive any revenue due under the terms and conditions that apply at that time.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
By submitting your entry you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.
All entries must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but stories must be withdrawn from this contest immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee will not be refunded. (Note: If your story is posted on a personal blog, please remove it before submitting.)
Entries that fall outside the parameters of the set out in the submission guidelines will be disqualified. The entry fee will not be refunded.
Current and former employees of Hammond House Publishing and their family members are not eligible. Previous contest entrants, including winners, are free to submit.
Entrants agree to their submitted manuscripts being published and or performed as required by Hammond House publishing for a period of 12 months from the date of winners being announced.
All revenue from the sale of published work from competition entries will be retained by Hammond House Publishing Ltd to contribute to the cost of administrating the competition and other activities.
Copyright of all manuscripts submitted remains with the Author, who is free to publish their work elsewhere on the announcement of competition results unless their work is chosen for publication, in which case they are required not to publish elsewhere until 12 months after first being published by Hammond House Publication Ltd in which their work is included. This only applies to competition entries and does not include other work submitted by members for publication on the Hammond House site, for which the Author would receive any revenue due under the terms and conditions that apply at that time.
ACADEMY
ACADEMY
2017 COMPETITIONS
ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED
Results by 1st December
Awards Ceremony 13th December
GOOD LUCK
to everyone who entered
2017 COMPETITIONS
ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED
Results by 1st December
Awards Ceremony 13th December
GOOD LUCK
to everyone who entered
2021 INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PRIZE
2021 SHORT STORY RESULTS
2021 POETRY RESULTS
2021 SCREENPLAY RESULTS
2021 SONGWRITING RESULTS
PREVIOUS RESULTS
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The winners were announced on Billboard TV on 19th December 2021. You can watch the episode here.
All shortlisted stories and poetry will be published in the annual Hammond House anthologies due for release in early 2022. Pre-orders coming soon.
Prizes will be awarded at our Annual Literary Festival at the University Centre Grimsby. Date TBC.
Feedback will commence in January 2022 and should be completed by the end of March 2022.
Keep up to date with all the latest competition news:
SHORT STORY
Winners:
1st Place: Good Grief
2nd Place: Foulness Point
3rd Place: Sam Hise
Richard Hooton, United Kingdom
Matt Wixey, United Kingdom
Adam Brown, Italy
Highly Commended:
The Astronaut's Ears
Catch a Falling Star
All The Clearing House Darlings
Mezza Stella
The Summer Job
Above and Below
Sharon Boyle, United Kingdom
Sam Horton, United Kingdom
Rhiannon Lewis, United Kingdom
L M Rees, United Kingdom
Claire Tallentire, United Kingdom
Alex Tyndale, Ireland
Student Winners
Ethel and Gladys
Going Over
Room To Spare
Amanda Nelson, United Kingdom
Sidney Wright, United Kingdom
Sarah Stannard, United Kingdom
Shortlisted Entries:
Mars Medical
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Love Letters from Julia Roberts
Anahid and the Whales
Presolar Grains
Rock 'n Roll King Is Down
Transcendental
Snowflakes and Stardust
Tennessee William's Last Play
Where the Spiders Were
Golden
Tears Mingled With Sweat
Black Holes
Starrydust and Blood
On Rust and Stardust
Poems While You Wait
Speedbird 106 Heavy
Gregory Ballinger, Australia
Kate Durrant, Ireland
Robert Ewan, United Kingdom
William Goodwin, USA
Peter Hankins, United Kingdom
Karen Hill, United Kingdom
David Lake, United Kingdom
Mikyla Limpkin, United Kingdom
David Lohrey, United States
Emily Macdonald, United Kingdom
David Meech, New Zealand
Vivian Munn, United Kingdom
Ben Redwood, Australia
Paul Sutherland, United Kingdom
Jack Wijesekera, Australia
Matt Wixey, United Kingdom
Matt Wixey, United Kingdom
Editors Choice:
A Palm-Sized Galaxy
One.
Italian Night
A Woman, A Lake
Malina Douglas, India
HaoMing Du, Singapore
Andrew Peters, Sweden
Daoxiang Tangcheng, China
POETRY
Winners:
Shortlisted Entries:
Editors Choice:
Dagne Forrest, Canada
Ruth Flanagan, United Kingdom
Patricia Anica Llorando, Australia
1st Place: Summer Lightning
Joint 2nd Place: Spellbound
Joint 2nd Place: Native Stardust
Mette Honore, Denmark
Vera Ivanova, Bulgaria
Stardust knows no bounds
Shooting Stars
Playground
LIGHT
Polaris
Jupiter in Her Mind
Illuminated Destiny
A Transformation
coal bunker, 1977
Star Dust
The Churn of Dreams
Spellbound
Summer Lightning
Funfairness
The Pebble and the Pond
A.I Robot Lover
Birthday
Back To The Garden (for Lucy)
Stardust
Hypnos and The Island Of Dreams
Mount Saint Helen, May 18th 1980
Learning to Live
Fireworks
What Matter That I’m Matter-Made
Carrying Black Holes
Heat Death of the Universe
MY LITTLE GIRL
Golden Boy
The Fixed Stars
The Purpose of Moonlight
Silent Running
Amanda Anastasi, Australia
Alyxandria Arrowood, United States
Tamara Barrett, Australia
Alex Bassett, Australia
SusieBernsUnited Kingdom
RachelCarneyUK
TeresaCooperUnited Kingdom
Judith Drazin, UK
Megan Easley-Walsh, Ireland
Ruth Flanagan, England
Dagne Forrest, Canada
Nathaniel Frankland, United Kingdom
Paul Jauregui, United Kingdom
Anthony Leaman, United Kingdom
Róisín Leggett Bohan, Ireland
Mark Liston, Australia
Meg Macleod, United Kingdom
Helen Marler, United Kingdom
Brittany Nohra, Ireland
Bradley Peters, Canada
David Punter, United Kingdom
Sheila Ronsen, U.S.A.
Alicia Sometimes, Australia
Alicia Sometimes, Australia
Daniella Speirs, Australia
Tim Taylor, United Kingdom
Tim Taylor, United Kingdom
David Terelinck, Australia
Roy Woolley, UK
SCREENPLAY
Winners:
1st Place: Wish
2nd Place: Castor's Comet
3rd Place: Perspective
Beth Gleeson, Australia
Cameron Rockwell, United States
Amy-Joyce Hastings, Ireland
Highly Commended:
Fattening Up
Honeymoon Phase
Richard Layton, United Kingdom
Lindsey Kirchoff, United States
SONGWRITING
LYRICS
Winners:
1st Place: Garage Days
2nd Place: Woman In The Shadows
3rd Place: Lady of the Night
Matt Wixey, United Kingdom
Jean Cooper Moran, United Kingdom
Kirily McKellor, Australia
Highly Commended:
Hard to Sing My Song
Bent, Bowed, Broken, Beautiful
David / Stephen Evardson / Mair, United Kingdom
Kirily McKellor, Australia
PERFORMED
Winners:
1st Place: You Are The Light
2nd Place: Hero
3rd Place: Defy Cupid
Caroline Johnstone, Scotland
Tyrolin Puxty, Australia
LauraM Theis, United Kingdom
Highly Commended:
Waterfalls
Sweet Lullabies
Andy Goudie, United Kingdom
Tyrolin Puxty, Australia
Editor's Choice:
Summer Blue
Jerusalem
Athanasia Teliou, Greece
Hafiz Sheriff, Sri Lanka