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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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All entries must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but stories must be withdrawn from this contest immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.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
Stories set in the UK, France and America.
‘Beautifully written and really evocative of a particular time and place.’ – Emily Trahair, Editor, Planet Magazine.
CHRISTOPHER OWEN
Christopher's book America Awaits Us, My Lovely and other stories is now published by Troubador Publishers. Available from bookshops (when bookshops open again!), from online retailers and Troubador Publishers. Find it here.
His stories have been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies.
He has been short-listed for the Bridport story Prize 2019; won 2nd prize for the Wells Festival of Literature prize 2019, and has been long-listed for the Royal Society of Literature V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2018 and for the London Short Story Prize 2018.
Christopher's story Sarah was shortlisted for the Hammond House 2019 International Literary Prize and was published in the Anthology Leaving.
His plays: Laying the Turf long-listed for the Papatango Award, and the Bush theatre, London UK award 2018. The Touch of a Butterfly’s Wing long-listed for Papatango Award 2016
Plays produced include: 2017: Drownings at Octagon Bolton (Best of Bolton). 2016: Still Waters performed by Mind the Gap Theatre Company at Manhattan Theatre, New York; 2015: Winston Brown performed in association with Paines Plough at the Lowry Manchester UK; In 2013 ‘Women's Voices’ by American writer Susan K Monson and me was performed in Manchester as part of North West Festival. Other work includes: A Parson's Tale (UK tour), A Family Affair, (UK / Australia / Ireland), A Wilde Affair (UK tour).
Actor: Trained at RADA.
Worked in theatre, TV and film for over 55 years.
Theatre included: Old Vic London, Stratford East Theatre Royal, Liverpool Playhouse, Manchester Library Theatre. Toured A Parson’s Tale and Right ho Wodehouse! throughout the UK, in Cyprus and in the Gulf.
Television work includes; BBC TV’s House of Cards, Sharpe’s Honour, Perfect Spy, Men Behaving Badly, Dr Who, Law and Disorder etc.
Films include: Basil, The Bank Job. The Fear of Silence (Awarded the Gold Medal at the New York Film and Television Festival 1991.)