Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Thu 27 Nov 2025
Location: Finland

Way Beyond is a transdisciplinary residency program for artists, writers, creatives and researchers that brings together open-minded, curiosity-driven individuals interested in expanding our understanding of reality, perception, and how we experience it. Finland, Spring 2026. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Location: International

100 words or less per entry. Any genre. Theme: Truth-telling. All writers welcome. All ages. All genders. All nationalities. Prizes: 1st place: $1,000 USD. Total value of all prizes: over $15,000 USD. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Location: International

This year's Autumn Voices Poetry Competition is open through November for entries on the theme of Play. There are prizes of £220 and £110 to be won, and the winning poems as well as any ‘Commended’ entries will be published on the Autumn Voices website. Judge: Anne Macleod.  Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Location: International

Prize €2000 for best single poem. Publication in Southword. Reading spot with accommodation at the Cork International Poetry Festival. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Location: International

Inkspot Publishing have announced their inaugural short story competition. Picking up the baton from the Chipping Norton Literary Festival, they're looking forward to receiving entries from writers from far and wide.  Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Location: International

The International Dark Poets Prize: Edition IV, our largest yet, is now open for entries! This global poetry competition invites you to submit your most captivating poems that explore the beauty within darkness. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Location: UK

The Emerging Writer Award provides focused development support for emerging writers of fiction living in the UK and is run by Moniack Mhor in partnership with The Bridge Awards. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Location: International

Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality would like to invite submissions to the January 2026 edition of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal. Tintreach publishes creative work from across the artistic spectrum. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Location: International

The Bath Children’s Novel Award is a £5,000 international prize for children’s novels, YA, chapter books and picture book texts.  Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Nov 2025
Location: West Cork

A residency in West Cork for three emerging writers of fiction and non-fiction aged 21 and over living in Ireland and the UK. Residency takes place January 25 - February 1 2026. Mentoring from Louis de Bernières, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Martina Devlin, Kirsty Logan, Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler & Leone Ross. Read more...