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Writing Opportunities - competitions and prizes you can enter
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| 13 March 2023 |
The BBC National Short Story Award 2023 British nationals and UK residents, aged 18 years or over. No entry fee Winner £15,000 plus 4 shortlisted authors £600 |
2 weeks 4 days ago |
| 13 March 2023 |
Primadonna Prize Unpublished authors 18 years old or over resident in the UK. Entry fee £8 Book contract with HQ with advance of £7,500 and agent representation |
5 days 23 hours ago |
| 10 February 2023 |
The Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize 2023 Open to unpublished and unagented female writers, aged 21 or over, who live in the UK or Ireland.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 |
5 weeks 1 day ago |
| 20 January 2023 |
Carcanet open submissions window Poets with full-length poetry manuscripts in English, or translation No entry fee Publication by Carcanet Press |
17 weeks 5 days ago |
| 3 January 2023 |
The Selfies Book Awards UK 2023 Authors who have self-published adult fiction, children’s books or adult memoirs/autobiography in the UK between January and December 2022. Entry fee: £35 per title to include a six-month subscription to Bookbrunch £750 cash prize for each category plus other prizes |
8 weeks 4 days ago |
| 31 December 2022 |
The Moth Poetry Prize 2022 Open to all poets over 16 for an unpublished poem. Entry fee €15 per poem 1st prize €6,000, plus three runner-up prizes of €1,000 and eight commended poets will each receive €250 |
12 weeks 2 days ago |
| 1 November 2022 |
Daily Mail First Novel Competition 2022 Open to anyone aged 16 or over who is a resident of the UK or Republic of Ireland and has not had a book published before No entry fee A £20,000 advance and publishing contract with Little Brown's Sphere imprin and the services of top literary agency LBA |
19 weeks 3 days ago |
| 31 October 2022 |
The National Poetry Competition 2022 Open to anyone 18 or over from all over the world to enter an unpublished poem of up to 40 lines. Entry fee £7 for first entry, £5 for unlimited subsequent entries First Prize: £5,000, Second Prize £2,000 and Third Prize £1,000, Commendations £200 |
14 weeks 5 days ago |
| 30 September 2022 |
The Bridport Prize 2022 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 Various - please check on their website |
29 weeks 2 days ago |
| 15 September 2022 |
The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2022 Open to anyone over the age of 16 with an unpublished piece of nature writing. Entry fee €15 per entry €1,000 and a week-long stay at The Moth Retreat in rural Ireland. |
23 weeks 4 days ago |
| 9 September 2022 |
The Imagined Futures YA writers resident in the UK or Ireland. No entry fee The first prize is a worldwide publishing contract with Faber and a £15,000 advance, while the second and third prizes also receive publishing contracts with advances of £8,000 and £5,000 respectively. |
25 weeks 3 days ago |
| 31 August 2022 |
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2022 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, which is awarded to 60 writers, shortlisted by the judging panel. |
33 weeks 2 days ago |
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