Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Sun 26 Jan 2025
Location: International

The latest Wild Atlantic Writing Awards invite flash fiction and creative non-fiction submissions (max 500 words) on the theme of 'Endings'. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 27 Jan 2025
Location: International

The Nine Dots Prize is a prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues. Entrants are asked to respond to a question in 3,000 words, with the winner receiving US$100,000 to write a short book expanding on their ideas. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 Jan 2025
Location: International

Stories of up to 4000 words are invited for this year's Bristol Short Story Prize judged by prize-winning novelists Jan Carson and Peace Adzo Medie and Wolf Literary agent Kate Johnson. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 Jan 2025
Location: Falmouth

Submit your proposal for the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s 2025 conference, taking place at Falmouth University, UK, from Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th June 2025. This interdisciplinary event will explore the rich and varied landscape of women’s writing, spanning literary and popular works, poetry and digital narratives, memoir and activism, and much more. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 Jan 2025
Location: International

We are inviting writers from four years of age upwards to be creative and submit an entry to this year’s competition. This can either be a short story, flash fiction, a piece of poetry, script or children’s literature (which is a script, story or poem for readers aged from seven to 14). Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 Jan 2025
Location: International

2024’s Keats-Shelley Poetry and Essay Prizes are open. The Chair of this year’s judging panel is the acclaimed writer, broadcaster and historian Tom Holland. International submissions are welcomed. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 Jan 2025
Location: International

Poems in English, on any subject, in any style and no longer than 40 lines are invited from writers worldwide. Cash prizes plus publication in the annual Folio. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 Jan 2025
Location: South West England

The submissions window for places on Literature Works' annual talent development programme for writers in the South West, Word Space, is now open. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 Jan 2025
Location: UK, Republic of Ireland

Founded in 2010, by Professor Janet Todd OBE and now going into its 15th year, DBE, the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize is renowned for championing and launching the careers of exceptional women writers. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 31 Jan 2025
Location: International

$3,000 prize package. Top 3 stories get published in our magazine and illustrated. NO entry fee. Read more...