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
We are pleased to say that the winner of our inaugural competition in 2004, Anne Morrison, has gone on the win second prize in the Orange/Scotland on Sunday Short Story prize 2005 so obviously quality will out.
Details of winning stories, competitions, and contact numbers can be found on the left menu.
The winner of this year's competition (2007)
was Lexie Fox and her winning story, along with the runners up are posted here : All Winning Stories 2007
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