Dedicated to the older writer
Welcome to WriteTime
If you’re over 60 and you’d like to do more with your writing, this is the place for you.
As a social enterprise dedicated to the older writer, we publish new short stories from across the world and we run regular writing competitions.
Winning stories are published here on our website. For the top three stories plus Highly Commended listings AND details of our free feedback offer, see our Winners/Highly Commended pages.
The best short stories are selected for our showcase Anthology. Buy the WriteTime THREE book here.
If you’ve got some good stories to tell:
Now is the time.
Here is the place.
Get writing!
Encouraging writers over 60 to be their best
Latest Winner
Fat Woman Seen
By Valerie Bowes
O why do you walk through the field in gloves
My hands are bad today. The gloves are a necessity not a fashion statement, although I have to say, I do like them. Not many people do, these days, but my mother rarely left the house without putting on her hat and gloves and my grandmother never did. Not even to pop across the road to see her sister, half a dozen doors down. She said you weren’t dressed without them. You might as well be wearing no knickers . . .
Runners-Up
By Ed Walsh
They have not met before. But when they clink their glasses in Cecile’s Bar at two-thirty in the afternoon they know that they will for a while be connected, and for a shorter while will give hope to one another. Before stepping down from their bar stools she will tell him about her marriage that didn’t get past the first year . . .
The Judge and the Plastic Surgeon
By Amanda Sheridan
Tightly squeezed into a black polyester M&S suit the woman was a conspicuously overachieving lawyer; the man was a frantic registrar in a sweaty hospital, white-coatedly dashing about. An unlikely couple, she was tall and bristling, he was short and smooth . . .
If you’re working on a new short story, or dusting off an old one, some of these pointers might help.
Get the plot right
How will it end?
Make sure your characters are authentic
You need to know them inside out, how they think and how they speak.
Every writer wants to see their work in print – and reach the widest audience. The WriteTime Anthology is a rare prize and our third collection is now available. Another stunning collection of short stories by older writers, produced to the very highest standards.
Click on the book to get there.
