The First Malton Literature Festival has launched two new competitions and they’re looking for poems and short stories from both adults and children.

The Malton Literature Festival Open Creative Writing Competition has two categories – Poetry and Short Story, each category with a 1^st prize of £100, a 2^nd of £50, and 3^rd of £25. Poems can be up to a maximum of 40 lines, and short stories to a maximum of 2000 words, and it costs £4 to enter each poem or short story.

The Malton Literature Festival Young Writers’ Competition is open to children about to enter school years 7-11 in September 2010. Poetry should be a maximum of 30 lines, and short stories a maximum of 1000 words, and vouchers will be awarded to the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd prize winners in each category. Entry to the Young Writers’ Competition is free and contestants are allowed up to three entries each.

The judge for both competitions is WOL poet Andy Humphrey. The deadline for both is Sunday, 22^nd August, 2010, and winners will be invited to read their winning work at a Prize giving on Sunday, 24^th October as part of the Malton Literature Festival.

For more details and entry forms please go to:

www.welovemalton.co.uk