Win a £200 ($308) cash prize for your short fiction in the new 2011 competition!

Cash prizes totalling £450 ($692) can be won in the new Writers' Village 2011 'Best Writing' competition for prose fiction in any genre up to 3000 words.

The first prize is £200 ($308), with a second prize of £100 ($154) and a third of £50 ($77). 

Five further prizes of £20 ($31) each are on offer to writers whose short fiction shows the greatest originality, mastery of the craft skills of creative writing, and power to move the reader.

Plus... all cash prize winners will receive a terse appraisal of their story without further charge.

The 2011 contest follows the great success of the previous three Writers' Village 'Best Writing' competitions, entered by writers from all over the world. 

Entries will be judged by Dr John Yeoman, MA (Hons) Oxon, MA (Res), MPhil, PhD Creative Writing, author of eight published books of humour and fiction, a university tutor in creative writing, and for forty years a successful commercial writer and publisher.

The contest deadline is 30th June 2011.

For further details of the contest, click here.

To read all the winning stories to date, click here. 

Top rated contest winners in 2009/10