Welcome to our Local Fiction section, published in part in association with Lancaster's Spotlight Club. We're looking for stories and other contributions based on or about the local Lancaster and Morecambe area, which reflect the community we live in.

They can be contemporary, historical, funny or fantastic. They might even be accounts of real-life events that have had a major impact on local life. The night Morecambe Pier collapsed, for example, or the day the old Lancaster Market burnt down. They could even be your ghost story...

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FORMAT GUIDE

Because these are stories for web reading they should be no less than 600 words long but no more than 800 words. Please send us your stories within the body of an e-mail, NO attached files. If you have images you would like to accompany the story please let us know and we will contact you if we decide to use your contribution.

There is currently no payment for the stories we use but copyright remains with the author and the page featuring your story will include full contact details as the author requires.

The stories will be selected from submissions by the Virtual-Lancaster editors and the Spotlight co-ordinators. We will try to let you know as soon as possible that we would like to use your contribution but because this site is published by volunteers, please do not expect an immediate reply. We are unable to enter into detailed correspondence about contributions.

We hope that the space will provide an international platform for local authors, be they new or established, and that the most popular stories will be collected at a later date, with the agreement of the writers.

If you'd like to know more, please contact The Editor

MORE INFO/LINKS

• Local Writers - Our directory of local writers

• Local Writing Links Local groups, events and publications featuring local writers.