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National Novel Writing Month 2024

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Closing date: 
30 November 2024
Entry: 
Open to all writers No entry fee
Prize: 
You win by writing a 50,000 word novel

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, empowering approach to creative writing. The challenge: draft an entire novel in just one month. Why do it? For 30 wild, exciting, surprising days, you get to silence your inner critic, let your imagination take over, and just create!  Read more

The Bridport Prize 2024

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Closing date: 
31 May 2024
Entry: 
Poetry, Short Story and Flash Fiction open to unpublished work from any writer writing in English over 16.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
Prize: 
Poetry and Short Story 1st Prize £5,000, Flash Fiction 1st Prize £1,000. Novel Award a year's mentoring and critique

The Bridport Prize has four sections: Poetry, Short Story, Flash Fiction and Novel Award.

Read the Rules carefully, as they have different rules and entry fees for different prizes.

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The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2024

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Closing date: 
9 February 2024
Entry: 
Open to unpublished and unagented female writers, aged 18 or over, who live in the UK or Ireland. Entry fee £12
Prize: 
Winner £1,500 and guidance and support from literary agent and sponsor Peters Fraser Dunlop

Now going into its 14th year, the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize is famous for helping undiscovered women writers launch their literary careers, and developed a formidable reputation for attracting first-class writing talent and as such judges are seeking entries that combine literary merit with 'unputdownability.' The Prize is for a novel by a woman over the age of 18 that marries literary merit  Read more

National Novel Writing Month 2023

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Closing date: 
30 November 2023
Entry: 
Open to all writers No entry fee
Prize: 
You win by writing a 50,000 word novel

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, empowering approach to creative writing. The challenge: draft an entire novel in just one month. Why do it? For 30 wild, exciting, surprising days, you get to silence your inner critic, let your imagination take over, and just create!  Read more

Mslexia Women's Fiction Competitions 2023

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Closing date: 
18 September 2023
Entry: 
All women are eligible. Not clear whether there’s an entry fee
Prize: 
Various

The MslexiaStylish and lively site for quarterly UK literary magazine read by 12,000 'committed' women writers. Good range of quality writing, information and advice with news, reviews, competitions and interviews, all presented in a friendly fashion. Praised by Helen Dunmore as 'astute, invigorating and above all an excellent read.' www.mslexia.co.uk Women's Fiction Competition 2023 offer a Fiction Competition judged by Sophie Hannah and Natasha Onco with a First Prize of £5,000 and other prizes for all three shortlisted authors for unpublished novels for Adult and Young Adult novels of at least 50,000 words.  Read more

Debut Writers Over 50 Award

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Closing date: 
31 May 2023
Entry: 
Open to unpublished and unagented writers over 50 living in the UK. No entry fee
Prize: 
£1,000 cash and a week-long residential course at Moniack Mhor

Jenny Brown AssociatesLiterary fiction, crime writing and writing for children; non-fiction: biography, history, sport, music popular culture. Also adult fiction and general non-fiction. No poetry, science fiction, fantasy or academic. Literary Agency has announced the inaugural Debut Writers Over 50 Award, for unpublished novelists in the UK over the age of 50.  Read more

The Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize 2023

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Closing date: 
10 February 2023
Entry: 
Open to unpublished and unagented female writers, aged 21 or over, who live in the UK or Ireland. Entry fee £12
Prize: 
Winner £1,500 and guidance and support from literary agent and sponsor Peters Fraser Dunlop

The Prize is for novels by unpublished and unrepresented women writers over the age of 18 in the UK and Ireland. Now going into its thirteenth year, the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize has developed a reputation for attracting first-class writing talent. Judges are seeking entries that combine literary merit with 'unputdownability', and it has been a catalyst for numerous literary careers.  Read more

The Bridport Prize 2022

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Closing date: 
30 September 2022
Entry: 
Eligibility please check on the individual category on their website for entry and fees for Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir and Flash Fiction. Entry fees various, please check on their website
Prize: 
Various - please check on their website

The Bridport Prize has five sections: Poetry, Short Story, Flash Fiction, Novel Award and a new Memoir section.

Read the Rules carefully, as they have different prizes, rules, entry fees and closing dates.

The Memoir section closes on 30 September.

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The Novel Prize 2022

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Closing date: 
1 June 2022
Entry: 
Open to a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers from round the world. No entry fee
Prize: 
$10,000 to the winner and publication of their novel by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK and Ireland, Giramondo in Australia and New Zealand, and New Directions in North America

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions have announced the biennial Novel Prize for a book-length work of literary fiction of at least 30,000 words written in English by published and unpublished writers from round the world, recognising 'works which explore and expand the possibilities of the form, and are innovative and imaginative in style'.  Read more

Discoveries Women’s Prize for Fiction

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Closing date: 
17 January 2021
Entry: 
Open to all women aged 18 and above, residing in the UK or Ireland and writing in English. No entry fee
Prize: 
Winner £5,000. All longlisted and shortlisted authors will be offered tailored mentorship packages from a Curtis Brown agent or industry expert and free or discounted places on Curtis Brown Creative’s creative writing courses.

In honour of the 25th anniversary year for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and in recognition of untapped diverse and exceptional writing talent across the country, the Women's Prize Trust, powered by NatWest and Curtis BrownSee Curtis Brown listing, is launching Discoveries.  Read more

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