"100" Competition Ideas
- We offer a one-off new benefit that might also draw members interest to our critiquing service. To wit, for the next round of the 100 competition, the winner receives the cash prize plus a free professional critique of any one of their pieces of work, whether it be short story, play, whatever.
- Try to get a "celeb" judge for one of the future rounds, to help raise its profile. Peter Robinson? Lord Fellowes? Judging the 100 competition is not an arduous or particularly time consuming task. And if it would help attract a celeb judge, we could even get one of us (I'm happy to volunteer) to whittle down the 100 to the best 20 for them to read and judge.
- We advertise it more widely in writing magazines working on a speculate to accumulate basis and/or take Kevin's lead, and get more non-paid for features about the comp into writing magazines.
- We pursue the idea of the 100 word competition anthology, offering entrants publication opportunity. If we did this through CreateSpace etc, it wouldn't require any upfront cost for NAWG and would be print on demand/for Kindle etc.
- Feature a "Tell A Friend" piece on the website, extolling the virtues of entering the competition.
- Offer more discounts. Ten pounds for five entries? And allow writing groups the opportunity to enter those five entries from more than one writer.
- Offer a new prize at NAWGFest for the best 100 competition winner from the year.
— Marvin Close, February 2017.