Difference between revisions of "The Write Idea"
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| − | '''The Write Idea''' | + | '''The Write Idea''' was a writing forum that closed its doors some time in the 2020s. It was started up by Helen Whittaker (as she was then) and was subsequently run by Donna Gagnon-Pugh and Doug Pugh. |
The '''Whittaker Prize''', named in honour of the founder of the site, was a competition run there between 2008 and 2012. The annual contest tool place over a number of weeks in which the contestants were given a series of writing challenges, each to be completed within two weeks. The entries were then marked out of 100 by an independent judge and a rolling total was kept. Separate competitions for fiction and poetry were run in parallel. In 2013 a '''Not the Whittaker''' competition was run along similar lines, with the variation that the scores were chosen by popular vote. | The '''Whittaker Prize''', named in honour of the founder of the site, was a competition run there between 2008 and 2012. The annual contest tool place over a number of weeks in which the contestants were given a series of writing challenges, each to be completed within two weeks. The entries were then marked out of 100 by an independent judge and a rolling total was kept. Separate competitions for fiction and poetry were run in parallel. In 2013 a '''Not the Whittaker''' competition was run along similar lines, with the variation that the scores were chosen by popular vote. | ||
Latest revision as of 10:33, 15 June 2026
The Write Idea was a writing forum that closed its doors some time in the 2020s. It was started up by Helen Whittaker (as she was then) and was subsequently run by Donna Gagnon-Pugh and Doug Pugh.
The Whittaker Prize, named in honour of the founder of the site, was a competition run there between 2008 and 2012. The annual contest tool place over a number of weeks in which the contestants were given a series of writing challenges, each to be completed within two weeks. The entries were then marked out of 100 by an independent judge and a rolling total was kept. Separate competitions for fiction and poetry were run in parallel. In 2013 a Not the Whittaker competition was run along similar lines, with the variation that the scores were chosen by popular vote.
