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EDITOR

EDITOR
Christine Carr

WELCOME

CRYSTAL MAGAZINE: Your poems, your stories, your articles and more
CRYSTAL WORD PROCESSING: £4 a thousand words. Holder of Distinctions

Hello everyone
Welcome to my website. This promotes my magazine for writers, Crystal Magazine, and my word processing service, Crystal Word Processing.

Briefly, through my word processing service I offer a booklet service; Crystal Magazine is for subscribers only and I only accept work from them. Subscribers are called Crystallites.

Subscription: £18 pa UK/£20 overseas. A sample copy is £2. Cheque or Postal Order payable to Mrs C Carr. Or by PayPal. Further down the site are a selection of PayPal buttons.

I accept poems, stories (true and fiction) and articles of any length and theme, except erotica.

Warm regards
Christine Carr

My contact details are:
Telephone: 0151 608 9736
Email:
christinecrystal@hotmail.com
Address: 3 Bowness Avenue, Prenton, Birkenhead CH43 0SD

Competition

CRYSTAL MAGAZINE CHILDREN'S STORY

Write a story for children aged 6 to 9 in no more than 1,000 words on the theme 'Jumping For Joy'.


Send sae for entry form to:  Crystal Magazine, 3 Bowness Avenue, Prenton, Birkenhead CH43 0SD


Entry fee: £3, each subsequent entry £2; Crystallites £2, each subsequent entry £1

Fee by cheque or Postal Order payable to Mrs C Carr


Closing date:  1 October 2012


Winning entries published in the November 2012 issue of Crystal Magazine.

You need only send one story and indicate on the entry form the numbers of the sections entered.  YouBase your choice on the prizes offered. The first section prizes are aimed at very young children.  If there is no child you may request money only.
can enter as many sections as you want. 


As well as the prizes, there is also £50 to be won in each section.

SECTION 1
For you: £50.

For a child you know:

3 Usborne books: first words; first colours; first 1-2-3



Artist Tool Box.  Ages 3+ (please supervise)


Clear plastic box with handle.  Below are images of what it contains.







Drawing pad



Four DVDs.  All Certificate U





SECTION 2
For you: £50

For a child you know:

Ask Dr K Fisher







The Kingfisher Treasury of Classic Stories


Package: The New Children's Encyclopedia and Children's Illustrated Dictionary



SECTION 3
For you: £50

For a child you know:

Package: 2 DVDs
The Box of Delights.  Certificate U
Kidnapped.  Certificate PG



The Children's Encyclopedia