Jude is involved with running the Bath Flash Fiction Award, the Bath Short Story Award and many other writing projects in Bath and the surrounding area. I've been in contact with Jude Higgins for quite a few years.

How The Cliché Writing Challenge Came To Exist Every year, Book Aid International sends around one million, carefully selected books to thousands of libraries, schools, Universities, hospitals and refugee camps around the world. The charity’s vision is a world where everyone has access to the books that will enrich, improve and change their lives. Proceeds from sales of the cliché writing challenge anthologies will be donated to Book Aid International.Ī raffle took place at the festival, proceeds from which were also be donated to the charity.īook Aid International is the UK’s leading international book donation and library development charity. About the Charity the Cliché Writing Challenge Supports We will not be publishing anymore books via this writing challenge. We are still accepting submissions to this challenge and stories will be published on this page along with author biographies. It contains another 100 stories submitted to the challenge. The second anthology – Tritely Challenged Volume 2 – was published in June 2020. It contains the first 100 stories submitted to the challenge. The first anthology – Tritely Challenged Volume 1 – was published in April 2018. To raise awareness of this common writing mistake, we are asking for flash fiction stories up to 150 words in length, stuffed with as many clichés as humanly possible. you can see many more cliché examples here and here.the woman who is secretly using a dating website and goes on a romantic encounter only to discover the man she's been flirting with online is her husband.the drunk cop who wants to solve the case he's been working on for 20 years before he retires.Clichés can also be stereotypes or opinions or characters or plots that are trite and indicate a lack of original thought.

The term 'cliché' doesn't just refer to overused figures of speech. Clichés detract from this and often lead to rejection from magazine editors and competition judges. To stand out from the crowd (see what I did there?), a writer needs to develop an original voice that the reader can identify and engage with. Author biographies will appear on the website alongside their published stories.īack to top About the Cliché Writing Challenge This challenge is now website publishing only. So far, we've received 233 stories and published 2 anthologies.

include 1 link (optional) to your website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.

include a short biography (40 words max) for use in the published book on this website - if you don't supply a bio, we will be unable to publish your story.

submit your story using the comments form below.

when anthologies are published, you will be involved in the book launch process.

by submitting, you accept the terms and conditions.

any money made through anthology sales will be donated to charity.

every time we receive 100 stories, we'll publish them in a book - 2 books have been published via this challenge and, due to time constraints, in May 2020 the challenge became website publishing only - I'm afraid that means there won't be anymore books published via the cliché writing challenge.

your cliché-crammed stories will be published on this page.

no profanity please - all the writing challenges are shared with children.

entry is the bargain basement price of: FREE.

use as many clichés as you can (clichéd phraseology, characters, plot lines etc.).

please include a title for your story (not included in the word count).

Rules & How To SubmitĪs sure as eggs are eggs, the rules are nice and simple: The challenge opened for general submissions on this website on Saturday 1st July 2017. The cliché challenge opened for submissions on Saturday 24th June 2017, to festival attendees. Since then, the event has run every year, held in Bath or Bristol. The inaugural festival took place in Bath. Welcome to Chris's Colossal Cliché Count Writing Challenge, run in conjunction with the UK's first ever festival dedicated to flash fiction. Rules & how to submit - about the cliché challenge - read cliché overloaded storiesĬhris Writefear, explaining the concept of cliché overuse to the legend that is Joody Higgins It will re-open on for submissions on 1st September 2024 The Cliche Writing Challenge is temporarily closed while I complete work on my website redesign Chris's Colossal Cliché Count Writing Challenge

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