Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Wed 5 Aug 2026
Location: East Midlands

The Mentoring Scheme 2026/27 is now open! Writing East Midlands’s ever-popular free writer craft and career development programme is accepting applications until the deadline of the 5th August 2026. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 14 Aug 2026
Location: UK, Republic of Ireland

Next Generation Poets aims to promote and build the career of 20 emerging poets, increase book sales across the poetry sector and raise awareness of the diverse range of contemporary poetry in the UK and Ireland. Read more...

Deadline: Sat 15 Aug 2026
Location: International

Entries are now officially OPEN for the Bournemouth Writing Prize 2027 - our international short story and poetry competition run in partnership with Bournemouth University. Read more...

Deadline: Sat 15 Aug 2026
Location: International

Do you have an obsession? A subject that you think would make an incredible Sidekick-style book? Send us your ideas for a collaborative, combinatory masterpiece. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 17 Aug 2026
Location: Australia

Have you a monograph about an aspect of literary journalism in you, waiting for the right opportunity? An idea for a collection of essays in the literary journalism field? Now is the time to formulate your ideas and pitch them to us: Sue Joseph, Willa McDonald and Matthew Ricketson.  Read more...

Deadline: Mon 17 Aug 2026
Location: UK

This year the Polari Prize is offering two awards – for a first book and for a book by an established writer. Read more...

Deadline: Tue 25 Aug 2026
Location: International

Writory is an international poetry contest that runs every month, open to poets worldwide in any language. Poems may be submitted in any language and on any theme, and each one is judged in its own language and poetic tradition rather than translated first. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 28 Aug 2026
Location: International

'Leaf Journal On Writing for Young People' is an online conference, this year on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th November 2026, that brings together scholar-practitioners in the field. Our Call for Papers is now open. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Aug 2026
Location: International

For over ten years, The Masters Review's Short Story Award has connected emerging writers with some of the industry’s top literary agents. We’re looking for standout stories—fiction or narrative nonfiction, up to 6,000 words—in a voice that is unmistakably yours. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 31 Aug 2026
Location: International

The prize is awarded annually by Oxford Poetry for a single unpublished poem of no more than 60 lines and is open to poets writing in English around the world age 18 or over. This year there is £3,500 in prizes and our guest judge is Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Read more...