Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Sun 14 Jun 2026
Location: Fife

Inspired by the Clydebuilt mentorship programme, Fifebuilt aims to provide three Fife-based emerging poets with a rare mentorship opportunity to develop their practice with renowned poet John Glenday. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 14 Jun 2026
Location: UK

The HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Awards, now in their 9th year, seek to recognise teachers who put reading for pleasure at the heart of their practice. Open to all teachers, librarians and reading champions, in and beyond the school. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 15 Jun 2026
Location: International

The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone over 16 from anywhere in the world, as long as your story is original and previously unpublished. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 19 Jun 2026
Location: UK, Republic of Ireland

The Guardian and 4th Estate 4thWrite Prize is a short story competition open to Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers living in the UK or Ireland who are 18 and above. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Prize. Read more...

Deadline: Tue 23 Jun 2026
Location: UK

London Writers Centre has launched the ‘There Is Only Narrative’ Competition in partnership with the Eve White Literary Agency. The goal of the competition is to find new writers of non-fiction from backgrounds underrepresented in UK publishing. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 25 Jun 2026
Location: Scotland

Facilitated by St Mungo’s Mirrorball, Clydebuilt 19 is a free poetry mentorship scheme that offers emerging poets in Scotland the opportunity to work with an experienced mentor over the course of a year and develop a new portfolio of work. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 26 Jun 2026
Location: North of England

The 2026 Channel 4 Writing for TV Awards are now open, offering four emerging screenwriters based anywhere in the North a long-term industry placement, a £3,000 bursary, and mentoring support. Read more...

Deadline: Tue 30 Jun 2026
Location: Ireland

The New Writing Prize is an annual literary award, now in its second year, organised as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Irish Writers Centre and The Stinging Fly.  Read more...

Deadline: Tue 30 Jun 2026
Location: International

Since 2009, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize has been awarded to some of the most thrilling new voices in life writing, poetry, and fiction from around the world. The prize now also welcomes entries in translation across all three categories. Read more...

Deadline: Tue 30 Jun 2026
Location: International

Poetry Ireland Review is published three times annually. We welcome unsolicited submissions of poems, and proposals for articles and interviews, from Ireland and abroad, in Irish or English. We are now inviting submissions for Issue 149, edited by Colm Tóibín. Read more...