Each week Hour of Writes offers a new peer-reviewed writing contest that involves a timed hour of writing with a new prompt each week and marking the work of other entrants. Entry costs one credit (£3 for one) and the winner gets half the entry fees received that week. Website:hourofwrites.com/
81-year-old Irish novelist Norma McMaster is in the running for a Society of Authors’ Award for her debut novel, Silence Under A Stone. There is a total award fund of £100,000 and the Award winners will be announced on 17 June.
The CWA has elected Linda Stratmann, author of the Victorian crime series the Frances Doughty Mysteries and the Mina Scarlatti books, as its new Chair.