STOP PRESS! Due to the huge volume of top-notch entries we’ve received so far, we’ve extended our Utopia Writing Competition deadline to March 30th 2010. So hit the keyboard and let your creativity flow!
Revenge Ink’s ‘UTOPIA’ Writing Competition: To Prove that Utopia Really Does Exist! Even as they claim to be capitalists, the big corporations of the publishing industry do everything they can to eliminate competition. They do it mainly by discouraging new writers and new types of writing. How many times have you got this response: we like your writing but don’t know how to market you? These companies also claim it is impossible to make money in a world where everyone plays games and watches movies but no one reads.
Revenge Ink was created to prove them wrong. We believe in fair and equal opportunities for publishers and authors alike, in a world where everyone is free to write as they please, think and live as they please, print and publish as they please. Everyone doing their own thing, reading what they like, writing what they like. Sounds like Utopia, huh? Well Utopia is here and now. And it begins with the Revenge Ink Writing Competition. Send us 10 pages of your most crackling prose – no racism, sexism, or hate-writing please - and we will publish the best among you in an Anthology one year after we receive the last entries. You will also receive medals at an award ceremony if you are selected a winner. This isn’t Cannes. It isn’t about furthering a celebrity-culture of ‘best’ and ’second-best’. It is about creating an opening. Allowing new writing to emerge free and unhindered, in a spirit of inclusiveness, openness and an unshakable respect for the individual and the fundamentally human need for Art. We will publish the writers we like, according to our tastes (see our About Us page). Good writing isn’t about standards and rules. It isn’t about ‘genius’ as the academies claim.
We believe art can come from anyone, anywhere. And this competition aims to prove it. Opening date for entries: Dec 1st 2009. Closing date for entries: March 30th 2010.
Format: you can either send in your entries byusing the form below, or email your entry – in pdf form only (to avoid file contamination) to competition@revengeink.com. Please also let us know where you heard about the competition, such as a magazine ad, etc.
Winners will be announced: July 15th 2010 (we reserve the right to change this date if the number of entries is too large)