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Writing Opportunities - competitions and prizes you can enter
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| 30 September 2024 |
The Bridport Prize Memoir Award 2024 The Bridport Prize Memoir Award open to unpublished work from any writer writing in English over 16. Entry fee: £24 per entry Memoir Award 1st Prize £1,500 + a year's mentoring, Runner-up £750 and Highly Commended 3 awards £150. |
11 weeks 4 days ago |
| 30 September 2024 |
The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2024 Open to anyone over the age of 16 with an unpublished piece of nature writing, which can be poetry or prose. Entry fee €15 per entry First Prize €1,000 and a week-long stay at The Circle of Misse in France, Second Prize €500 and Third Prize €250 |
5 weeks 4 days ago |
| 23 September 2024 |
Mslexia Women's Fiction Competitions 2024 All women are eligible. Entry fee for Short Story £12, Flash Fiction £6 and Novel (Young Adult and Children) £26 Various |
7 weeks 3 days ago |
| 13 September 2024 |
The V S Pritchett Short Story Prize 2025 Entry fee £8 Entrants must be citizens of the UK,the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth. Stories entered for the competition must not have been published previously. Any story submitted should be between 2,000 and 4,000 words in length. Entries should be in English. £1,000 |
3 weeks 4 days ago |
| 31 August 2024 |
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2024 Open to all. Entry fee Poetry entries £12 | Short Fiction entries £18 £2,500 awarded to both the Poetry and Short Fiction winners and publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology, plus many other prizes. |
9 weeks 4 days ago |
| 31 July 2024 |
Winchester Poetry Prize 2024 Open to all poets aged 16 or over from across the world. Entry fee £6 for first poem, £5 for subsequent poems First Prize: £1,000, 2nd Prize: £500, 3rd Prize: £250 |
13 weeks 2 days ago |
| 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 |
22 weeks 4 days ago |
| 8 July 2024 |
Ledbury Poetry Competition 2024 All poets writing in English are eligible, no matter where they live. Entry fee £6 per poem First prize £1,000 cash and a week's poetry course at Arvon, Second Prize £500 and Third prize £250 |
15 weeks 3 days ago |
| 30 June 2024 |
The Moth Short Story Prize 2024 Open to all writers over 16. Entry fee €15 per story 1st prize €3,000, 2nd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France plus travel stipend, 3rd prize €1,000 |
17 weeks 3 days 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. |
19 weeks 5 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 |
24 weeks 5 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 |
26 weeks 6 days ago |
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