The 3 Minutes Arts Competition 2025 is currently open for submission. Winners are awarded a cash prize of £50.
3 Minutes Arts Competition 2025
The 3 Minutes Arts Competition 2025 is currently open for submission. Winners are awarded a cash prize of £50.
About the 3 Minutes Arts Competition 2025
Stop-watches at the ready – it’s time for another 3-minute writing competition!
We’re looking for plays, stories and songs that last no longer than 3 minutes.
You have until 15 February 2025 to write and submit your entry, which must be suitable for performance to the family audience at our Mini Arts Festival on 31 May 2025.
Our judges will be looking for that spark of originality as well as the technical ability to construct a well-made play, story or song. Prize-winning entries will be likely to engage an audience’s attention and be in some way affecting – whether uplifting, amusing, tear-jerking or whatever.
Drama entries will need to be simple to stage and ideally will contain action and visual interest. The winning entries will be performed by local actors at the Mini Arts Festival in May.
Story entries will be ‘performed’ at the Mini Arts Festival by storytellers or by the winning writers.
The judges for the song entries will be looking for a well-crafted song with a spark of originality. The quality of the recording/performance will not be assessed in the judging. Recorded song entries should be in mp3 format and lyrics should be sent as a PDF file. A written score is not required but if provided should be sent with the lyrics as a PDF file.
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The 3 Minutes Arts Competition 2025 Rules
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Entry into the competition confirms your acceptance of all these terms and conditions, including giving non-exclusive rights to the competition management, should they wish to claim them, to public performances of your submissions at a Mini Arts Festival in Glaisdale and on Esk Valley Railway trains, and potentially at other venues. Any readings are likely to be on a non-profit basis; in the event of any profit being made, the writer/s will receive a share.
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The competition is open to all, but scripts / stories / lyrics must be in English and submitted as a pdf. Entries in the song category require the submission of an mp3 recording as well as a pdf. All entries need to be family friendly, in order to be suitable for performance at Glaisdale’s Mini-Arts Festival.
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Warranty and Copyright. Any competition entry must be an original work that does not infringe upon another person’s copyright or other rights. It may or may not have been published before. The copyright of your competition entry will remain your sole property.
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You may submit one or more entries for the set fee, which is £6.00 for the first entry in any category, and £3.00 for any subsequent entry in the same category.
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The length of any entry into any category should not exceed three minutes in performance, and you are advised to time the entry’s performance before submitting. The maximum word count for a story entry is 500 words.
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Your competition entry should have a title.
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For your stories, dramas and lyrics, please use a plain font (eg Arial or Times New Roman) in 12 point, double spaced.
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Your competition entry must carry no personal identification; it will be linked to your name by its title on entry, and an administrator will ensure that no judges have sight of any name in conjunction with any title, and all entries will be read or played anonymously.
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You must submit your entry via this website, which will be open for submissions between Saturday 28th September 2024 and Saturday 15th February 2025. Please ensure you submit your entry in good time, and preferably not on the last day. Please note that the competition managers can accept no responsibility nor make any allowances for technical issues that prevent or delay submission.
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No entry fees will be returned. Fees are charged in order to create a financial reward for the overall winner and, if possible, second and third prize-winners , as well as to cover the costs of running the competition. However, a decision may be made to waive the fee in the case of need. We will be as generous as we can be with the prizes, but as their size will depend on the number of entries we can not announce these in advance. Please note that your help with publicising the competition is likely to generate bigger prizes!
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The competition managers may contact you only in relation to your competition entry, and your data will not be used for any other purpose. Shortlisted writers will be notified by email, and the shortlist published on the website by the end of Saturday 15th March 2025. Winning writer(s) will be notified by email and announced on the website by the end of Saturday 12th April 2025. Both dates may be subject to change due to circumstances beyond the managers’ control.
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If you have not been contacted by the end of Saturday 12th April, your competition entry is not a prize-winner and will not be performed at the Mini Arts Festival, although it may still be selected to be performed on other occasions. No public performance will be made without prior notification being sent to you, however no responsibility can be accepted if a notification should happen to go astray.
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The judges reserve the right to decide against any public performance at all being made, whether because of the quality of the entries received, or for any other reason, including of course circumstances beyond their control.
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All decisions made by the judges regarding the winners are final. We regret that, owing to time constraints, no feedback can be given on competition entries.
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