Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Thu 4 Jun 2026
Location: UK

The Hope Collective 3.0 is seeking contributions for the third anthology in the series: Silence/Trace/Shadow/Longing. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 5 Jun 2026
Location: UK, Republic of Ireland or Commonwealth

The V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize is a £1,000 award for the best unpublished short story of the year, plus publication in our annual Review magazine. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 7 Jun 2026
Location: International

Best Emerging Writers 2026 will showcase a collection of prose from ten emerging writers who are bold and brave, who tell stories only they can tell, stories that must be told now. Open to writers worldwide writing in English. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 8 Jun 2026
Location: International

Submit a short story (1,000–2,200 words) on any theme for a chance to win up to £400. Open to writers worldwide, with unpublished work only. Read more...

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prize, open to anyone over 16 from anywhere in the world, as long as your story is original and previously unpublished.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: 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: 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...