Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Fri 28 Mar 2025
Location: International

Poems of 40 lines or less on any subject and any theme are invited for this year's Red Shed Poetry Competition which is generously sponsored by Mocca Moocho café, Cross Square, Wakefield. Sole adjudicator: Marion Oxley. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 28 Mar 2025
Location: International

The South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition is an annual international short story, creative non-fiction and poetry competition open to all writers around the world aged 16 or over. We are now open for submissions. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 30 Mar 2025
Location: Nérac, South West France

Studio Faire is a centre for creative development in South West France, providing funded and self-funded residencies and more. The Studio Faire Residency Fellowship will provide accommodation and practical support to two separate creative practitioners for a 2-week period in 2026. Applications are welcomed from visual artists, makers, writers, musicians and all other creative disciplines, at all stages of their careers. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 31 Mar 2025
Location: International

Dithering Chaps is a Dorset-based, not-for-profit publisher of poetry chapbooks (30-50 pages). Our submissions window is open throughout 2024 and 2025 for ten-page samples of your work. Open to writers worldwide. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 31 Mar 2025
Location: UK

The competition is for women over 60 who have not had a previous collection or pamphlet published. Individual poems published in anthologies and magazines or online may be included. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 31 Mar 2025
Location: Warwickshire

Hosking Houses Trust offers free residencies to established women writers, artists and practitioners of associated creative activities, normally over the age of 40 and facing some kind of need. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 31 Mar 2025
Location: International

The International Rubery Book Award is now open for self-published and independently published books. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 31 Mar 2025
Location: North of England

Write? Aged 16-22? Live work or study in the north of England. The Writing Squad is recruiting for our next Squad. The two-year programme will run from May 2025. Being part of the Squad is FREE. We work around your life so you can study, work or travel at the same time. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 31 Mar 2025
Location: International

The Ilse Schwepcke Prize is a new, annual award for women’s travel writing in English. The winning author will receive £5,000. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 31 Mar 2025
Location: British Commonwealth, Eire

Applications for the 2025 DRF Writers Award are now invited. £10,000 will be presented to a first-time writer whose submission demonstrates outstanding literary talent and who needs financial support to complete their work. The two runners-up will each receive £1,000. Read more...