The Louise Cooper Fantasy Writing Competition is now closed. Many thanks to all who entered and best of luck. The winner will be announced in early September.

Louise Cooper (1952-2009) was one of Britain’s finest authors of fantasy fiction. For
several years, she was also a visiting lecturer and project tutor on the MA Professional
Writing course at University College Falmouth. Louise was an extraordinarily insightful
and generous teacher, and her loss was felt keenly both by staff on the course and
former students who had been lucky enough to be tutored by her.

In memory of Louise, Bloc is launching a new annual competition for aspiring writers of
fantasy and/or science fiction. As well as seeing their work published on Bloc, the winner
will receive a complete set of Louise Cooper’s Time Master and Star Shadow trilogies.

The judge for this competition is Emily Thomas. Emily edited several of Louise’s books
and is now Publisher of Young Adult Fiction for Hodder Children's Books.

To enter the competition, please submit a piece of fantasy fiction (which may include
science fiction) up to a maximum length of 2500 words. This can be either a short story
or an extract from a longer work of fiction, and can be aimed at either adults or younger
readers. Entries should be submitted as either a Word or PDF document, together with a standfirst describing your story and a brief description of yourself (don't forget to include your name!) Submission guidelines can be found here.

You can find out more about Louise Cooper and her writing here