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

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

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

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

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

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

KENWICK PARK ESTATE

Golf Hotel and Spa

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

Back to Featured Authors

SOPHIE HOLLINGSWORTH

Twenty-four-year-old Sophie lives in the peaceful village of New Waltham and enjoys walking in the local countryside with her young puppy, Jasper. Her wide range of work includes screenplays, historical fiction and short stories. Inclination Pursuit, her latest short story set in a dystopian London a hundred years in the future will be published by Hammond House later this year. Sophie’s guilty pleasure is daytime TV, where she finds inspiration for new and unique characters. If you like your fantasy mixed with a good dose of science fiction, you’ll love reading Sophie.

Inclination Pursuit

Everything is as it should be In a world where mind control signals have abolished wars and banished independent thought ... until a signal fails inside one girl's mind, and the compliant world that has been created unfolds in front of her. Eighteen-year-old Kimmy has lived her whole life in the city, surrounded by a population who are being controlled by higher powers. They reside in tall towers in the middle of every city in the world. Signals are sent out to microchips, implanted in people’s necks as soon as they are born, to stop free will and to try and ‘save’ society from the state of war and poverty it had got itself into in the past. When Kimmy starts suffering blinding headaches she wonders what is happening as she begins to feel her own free will coming through for the first time. As she tries to explain to people what is happening to her and tries to convince them to stand with her against the conformity, she comes up against the controllers who are determined to get her back in line, no matter what it takes.

Annabel's War

Annabel's father has gone away to fight in World War II. In his absence Annabel and her mother battle the loneliness and fear which comes with living in London during wartime.

Escape - Screen play

A downtrodden woman, Mia, experiences first hand the horrors of domestic mental and physical abuse. Her fight to escape from her partner Adam's clutches results in unforeseeable circumstances which change everything.

MEMBERS

Reduced entry feeds for our International Writing Competitions (save up to £30 a year)
An author profile where you can share your work
Opportunities to submit work for publishing
Exclusive competitions and literary prizes - for members only
Offer your services to other authors and publishers. Find out more here.
Special member-only offers from other service providers
Promote yourself and your work while helping emerging talent

Hi, I'm Sarah Stook! As membership secretary, my role is connecting with our wonderful members! From social media to the newsletter, I'll be the one typing away. I really hope that I am able to correspond with you, whether it's emails, stories or photos.

Like you, I'm a writer - for both an existing online magazine and my own blog, founded in April 2018. Feel free to contact me about any questions that you may have and I'll be more than happy to answer. Find me on LinkedIn and Twitter on @sarah_stook. I can't wait to begin working with my fellow writers!

-Happy Writing, Sarah

DATA PROTECTION: We wish to hold your data for membership records, subscriptions, discounts and contacting members with newsletters and other information which may be of interest. We will hold your data while you are a member and for one year after your membership ceases. We will not sell your data or make it available to third parties. Your data will be held in our data base for use by members of the Hammond house team for the efficient running of the organisation. For more information on how we use your data, please see our Privacy Policy.