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Writing Opportunities - competitions and prizes you can enter
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24 July 2024 |
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2024 Poets from anywhere in the world aged 11-17 years No entry fee Top 15 winners get publication in the Foyle Young Poets 2024 Anthology |
4 weeks 1 day ago |
1 June 2024 |
The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2024 Open to unpublished, unagented children’s writers based anywhere in the world. Entry fee £20 First Prize: a publishing contract with Chicken House with an advance of £10,000, plus the offer of representation from literary agent Lydia Silver of Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency. |
1 week 2 days ago |
31 May 2024 |
The Bridport Prize 2024 Poetry, Short Story and Flash Fiction open to unpublished work from any writer writing in English over 16. Novel Award restricted to UK writers, and to British adn American writers living abroad. Entry fee: £12 per poem, £14 per story, £11 for flash fiction and £24 per novel Poetry and Short Story 1st Prize £5,000, Flash Fiction 1st Prize £1,000. Novel Award a year's mentoring and critique |
6 weeks 2 days ago |
23 April 2024 |
Fern Academy Prize for essays Open to unpublished and unagented writers from around the world. No entry fee Prize of £3,000; publication with Tortoise Media; literary representation by RCW literary agent Laurence Laluyaux and other prizes |
8 weeks 3 days ago |
31 March 2024 |
The Rubery Prize 2024 Open to all writers internationally who have published their work through a small press or self-published their work Entry fee £45, varying internationally First Prize is £2,000 plus £200 for four category winners. Every winner receives a glass plaque and all winners & shortlisted authors receive a write up |
19 weeks 16 hours ago |
31 March 2024 |
The Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2024 Open to all poets across the world over the age of 16, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. Entry fee €15 per poem First Prize €1,000 and a week-long stay at The Circle of Misse in France, Second Prize €500 and Third Prize €250 |
15 weeks 1 day ago |
18 March 2024 |
The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 British nationals and UK residents, aged 18 years or over. No entry fee Winner £15,000 plus 4 shortlisted authors £600 |
13 weeks 2 days ago |
9 February 2024 |
The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2024 Open to unpublished and unagented female writers, aged 18 or over, who live in the UK or Ireland. Entry fee £12 Winner £1,500 and guidance and support from literary agent and sponsor Peters Fraser Dunlop |
21 weeks 1 day ago |
5 February 2024 |
‘The People’s Friend’ 155th Anniversary Bursary Competition UK entries only, over 18. No entry fee £10,000 writing bursary |
16 weeks 6 days ago |
31 January 2024 |
The Prototype Publishing Prize Open to writers resident in the UK or Ireland. No entry fee £3,000 plus publication by Prototype will go to the best book-length project A second prize of £2,000 plus publication by Monitor Books will be awarded to the best proposal for a short-form work. |
27 weeks 15 hours ago |
7 January 2024 |
The Selfies Book Awards UK 2024 Authors who have self-published adult fiction, children’s fiction or adult non-fiction in the UK between January and December 2023. Entry fee: £35 per title to include a six-month subscription to Bookbrunch £750 cash prize for each category plus other prizes |
25 weeks 1 day ago |
31 December 2023 |
The Moth Poetry Prize 2023 Open to all poets over 16 for an unpublished poem. Entry fee €15 per poem and you can enter as many poems as you like 1st prize €6,000, plus three runner-up prizes of €1,000 and eight commended poets will each receive €250 |
29 weeks 11 hours ago |
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