Kathleen Jamie, multi-award-winning author of numerous poetry collections, as well as three works of non-fiction, an acclaimed travel narrative and the groundbreaking nature books, Finding sand Sightlines, will judge The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2023.
The Prize will be awarded to an unpublished piece of writing - poetry or fiction - which best combines exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writer's relationship with the natural world. The word limit is 4,000 words.
First Prize €1,000 and a week-long stay at The Circle of Misse in France, Second Prize €500 and Third Prize €250 The Moth Nature Writing Prize is open to anyone (over 16) as long as their piece is previously unpublished. There is an entry fee of €15. Closing 30 September 2023.
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by Sophie Hannah and Natasha Onco with a First Prize of £5,000 and other prizes for all three shortlisted authors for unpublished novels for Adult and Young Adult novels of at least 50,000 words.
The Mslexia Women's Short Fiction Competition 2023 offer a Short Fiction Competition judged by Deborah Moggach with a First Prize of £3,000 and other prizes for all three shortlisted authors for unpublished short fiction.
The Mslexia Women's Flash Fiction Competition 2023 offer a Flash Fiction Competition for up to 300 words judged by Tania Hershman with a First Prize of £500 and other prizes for all three shortlisted authors for unpublished flash fiction.
The Award is open to all UK comics creators, cartoonists, and artists and writers working as a team, who do not have an agent and have not had a full-length graphic work commercially published. You can be age 18 or 100, or anything in between. You must be resident in the UK.
Entries may be from a single creator, or an artist/writer team, or may be a collaboration between comics artists, writers, and those with a story to tell who may be unable to do so themselves. We are looking for a wide range of creators from different regions within the UK, and with different backgrounds. We want to reflect our society, inclusive of neurodivergent and disabled people, and those with the full rainbow of social, gender and ethnic identities.
If you have any access needs in making this application, please get in touch with us at hello@cartoonmuseum.org
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
A 15-30 page extract from a narrative work in progress - nonfiction or fiction, with words (in English) or without, in black and white or in colour.
We are looking for graphic nonfiction, reportage, fiction in any genre, with or without words, in black and white or colour. We cannot pair artists and writers, and we do not accept any scripts, with or without illustration samples. We want comics!
We need to see how YOU want your finished pages to look. We need to see at least eight pages of finished artwork. The rest of the pages are acceptable as readable roughs with text and images clearly sketched out.
We require the work to be submitted both DIGITALLY and as PRINTOUTS (in black and white or colour) to ensure that the judges have access to all the entries. If you have any access needs in making this application, please get in touch with us at hello@cartoonmuseum.org
The winning entrant[s] agree[s] to the use of his/her name[s] and photograph[s] in relation to publicity material. The winning entrant (or entrants) also agrees that SelfMadeHero has first option to consider the finished work for publication.
The Manchester Writing Competitions offer the UK's biggest literary awards for unpublished work, offered by the country's most successful writing school. The Competition was established in 2008 by Carol Ann Duffy (UK Poet Laureate 2009-19) and has awarded more than £220,000 to writers. Each year two £10,000 prizes are awarded: the Manchester Poetry Prize for best portfolio of 3-5 poems and the Manchester Fiction Prize for best short story up to 2,500 words. Designed to encourage and celebrate new writing across the globe, the competition is open internationally to new and established writers submitting unpublished poems.
Poetry Prize: £10,000
Entry fee: £18 Deadline for Entries: 1 September 2023
Chair of the judges: Malika Booker
£10,000 prize for the best portfolio of three to five poems (maximum combined length: 120 lines). Open internationally to new and established writers aged 16 or over (no upper age limit).
Fiction Prize: £10,000
Entry fee: £18 Deadline for Entries: 1 September 2023
Chair of the judges: Lara Williams
£10,000 prize for the best short story of up to 2,500 words. Open internationally to new and established writers aged 16 or over (no upper age limit).
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