Guidelines
Guidelines for Competition Entrants
- Leaf is looking for previously unpublished work only. This doesn’t include work published online if you hold the copyright.
- Unless otherwise specified in the competition details, you may enter either by post or online. If you enter by post and are successful, we will ask for an electronic version of your story or poem at a later date. You’ll also be asked to supply a short writing biography, so please note that an email address at which we can reliably contact you is inordinately useful.
- Please type all work. Use single-spacing and a readable font, ideally Times New Roman or Arial 12 point.
- Please number pages and staple them together. Do not put staples through cheques.
- As all work is judged anonymously, your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript: only on the entry form or covering letter.
- Enclose a stamped addressed postcard or envelope marked 'receipt' if you'd like acknowledgement of receipt.
- Enclose a SAE marked 'results' if you wish to receive a hard copy of the competition results.
- Due to the volume of entries we are unable to return manuscripts so please don't send out your only copy.
- Please note that critiques for competition entries will not be returned until the winners have been announced.
- *Please* ensure that you get your entry weighed and correctly franked when you send it to us: since the postal system has changed, we have understandably received several items of mail with incorrect postage - we have to pay not only the shortfall but a £1 correction fee.
