Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Mon 22 Jul 2024
Location: Ludlow, South Shropshire

Pentabus are looking for an emerging theatre artist to become our first Jerwood Writer in Residence. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 28 Jul 2024
Location: International

Ever been in a dangerous or threatening situation? Why not write about it and enter your story in this new competition. Or develop a flash fiction story on the theme. Two categories - creative nonfiction such as essay, travel story or memoir, and flash fiction. Maximum word count 500. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 28 Jul 2024
Location: International

Fly on the Wall Press is open for manuscript submissions of novels, novellas, short story collections and poetry collections.  Read more...

Deadline: Wed 31 Jul 2024
Location: International

Our 2024 Anthology Creative Competitions are now open for entries. We have two new competitions debuting this year: Personal Memoir and Nature Writing. They join our Short Story, Poetry, Travel Writing and Flash Fiction competitions. Open to writers worldwide writing in the English language. Deadlines from 31 July 2024. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 31 Jul 2024
Location: International

You are invited to submit a full article for possible inclusion in a special issue of Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies. The issue theme is “Theorizing Short Story Practice in the 21st Century,” guest edited by Dr Andrew McDonnell. International submissions welcome. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 31 Jul 2024
Location: International

Guts Publishing are open for submissions in these genres: Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Autobiography, Autofiction and Literary fiction. The minimum word count is 25,000. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 31 Jul 2024
Location: Hampshire

Winchester Poetry Festival and Hampshire Cultural Trust are working together once more to find the top young poets in Hampshire in the Hampshire Young Poets Competition 2024. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 31 Jul 2024
Location: UK

The James Berry Poetry Prize will assist emerging poets of colour who ready to take their work to the next level via mentoring and publication.  Read more...

Deadline: Wed 31 Jul 2024
Location: UK

Living With Buildings is a festival of short films that explore themes of people, poetry and place to understand how we live within the built environment of cities and urban spaces. Submissions are open now on Filmfreeway. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 31 Jul 2024
Location: Scotland

Applications for the 2025 New Writers Awards are currently open. There are five categories: Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction?(also known as creative non-fiction), Poetry, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Spoken Word, Scots. Read more...