HISSAC is a loose network of writers who keep contact with each other for the purpose of critiquing and encouraging each other’s work. Feedback is imperative for all writers who want to grow and improve, and sometimes family and friends cannot provide the objectivity we need.
Local Writing Groups can fill this gap if they are available, but not everyone wants such formal face-to-face contact with a weekly or monthly schedule of writing tasks.
HISSAC members fill in a form briefly stating the type of writing they do and the sort of contact they want – most people prefer contact by e-mail, and a few by letters only.
Return the form to us and we will add you to our database and send you out a list of writers with whom you can initiate contact: all you do is scan through the list, pick out a few people whose style of writing seems approximate – or alternatively, totally different – to your own and post off a few stories. You can proceed to contact as many or as few people as you need.
There is no membership fee. Instead we hold an Annual Open Short Story Competition which is open to everyone, members or not, the entry fees of which are used to fund the organisation, maintain the website and of course, provide the winner with a nice cheque! You can now pay securely on-line with your credit card or PayPal- click here to enter the competition or pay on-line
Details of winning stories, writing competitions, and contact numbers can be found on the left menu.
RESULTS OF THE 2009 OPEN SHORT STORY COMPETITION
First prize : MORAG EDWARD for BIRDSONG
Second prize : MIRANDA LEWIS for ARCHANGEL AND THE MAJA
Third prize : JOHN JENNETT for CAROLINE ANNE
Runners up :
JULIE HAYMAN for NORTHERN LIGHTS
EILEEN GILMOUR for MYSTIC GRAHAM
HANNA MIHAIL NIHILIA for SLOWLY LOWLY'S BUDGIES
Many thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to our winners.
All the above stories are now uploaded on to the website and it should not be long before the winners of the Highland and Islands Short Story writing competition are spending their prize money!
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