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The Moya Green Collection

Current competitions

                                                   2010
                                             

 

Competitions closing in
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ongoing Competitions

GENERAL


Aquillrelle for Children

Aged 12 years & under

Poems, paintings, drawings

 

Closes:          when 120 suitable entries received

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)          publication in book

Length:          poems up to 35 lines; paintings, drawings – see website

Country:         Belgium

Website:        www.aquillrelle.com/contests-cc.htm

Email:          aquillrelle@aquillrelle.com

Online entry?  no

 

 

NOVELS

 

 

Kinglake Unpublished Author Competition: Novels

open to authors who have not published a novel

 

Closing date: last day of month

Entry fee:       £0

Prize(s)          publication in book form + royalties

Length:          no limit

Genre:            12 genres, one for each month – see website

Country:         UK

Website          www.kinglakepublishing.co.uk/

Online entry?  yes

 

 

Scriblist Book 2 

ongoing novel chapters

 

Runs:   now till 31st December

Fees:    £0

Prizes:  publication + small share of royalties.

Length:  1500 - 2500 words

Website:  www.scriblist.com/

E-mail:    scriblistpress@gmail.com

Online entry? yes

 

 

STORIES

 

Cazart: Short Stories & Flash Fiction

 

 

Starts:             1st February 2009

Closing date: 26th of each month

Entry fee:       £3

Prize(s)          £20

Length:          stories 400 – 3000 words; flashes up to 400 words

Country:        UK

Website:        www.cazart.co.uk/index.php?page=competitions

Online entry?  yes

 

Dark Tales Monthly Contest

Closes:   end of each month
Fees:      £3 for one entry (free to subscribers).
              £3.00 for an tick sheet critique
              £25 for full critique.

Prizes:    £100; £50; £25; runners-up £5 Publication online and in print magazine.
Word limit: 5000
Genre:       Speculative and horror fiction.
Website:   
http://www.darktales.co.uk/econtest.htm
Online entry/    yes

 

Debut Magazine Quarterly Competitions

for your first story

 

Closing date:  none

Entry fee:       £3 (with critique £5). Annual subscribers free

Prize(s)          £75; £25; £15

Length:          up to 3000 words

Country:         UK

Website:        www.parkpublications.co.uk

Online entry?   no

 

 

Friction Fiction

write 1 story per month for 12 months

 

Opens:    1st June 2008

Closes:    1st June 2009

(entry form to be completed by 30th May 2008)

Submit:   by end of each month

Fees:       £12 (£1 per month)

Prizes:     £200; £100; £50; £25

Length:    2500 words max per story

Theme:    prompt sent each month

Website:  www.rainepublishing.com/frictionfiction.htm

Online entry?    yes

 

Global Short Story Competition

Closes:  end of each month
Fees:    £5
Prizes:  £100; £250 annual prize.
Length: up to 2,000 words
Website:
www.globalshortstories.net
Email:    john.dean@certys.co.uk
Online entry?    yes
.

L Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future

 

Closing dates:  October 1; January 1; April 1; July 1

Entry fee:           none

Prize(s)             $1000; $750; $500

Length:              up to 17,000 words

Genre:               SF, fantasy, dark fantasy

Country:           USA

Website:          www.writersofthefuture.com/

Online entry?  no

 



The Pages Quarterly Open Short Story Contest

Closing dates:  
31 March extended to 12th April
                        30 June
                        30 September
                        31 December
Entry fee:        £4 (free critique included)
Prize(s):          £60; £40; £20; publication in anthology
Word limit:        4000
Theme:             open
Website: 
http://www.the-pages.blogspot.com/
E-mail:         the-pages@hotmail.co.uk
Online entry?   yes

 

 

Prima

 

Closing date:  ongoing

Entry fee:        £0

Prize(s)          £200 + 1 year subscription

Length:          up to 500 words

Theme:          real life experience written up in creative way

Country:         UK

Website:        www.allaboutyou.com

Email:            yourwinningstory@natmags.co.uk

Online entry?  yes

 

 

 

PrimeProse Flash Fiction

Quarterly

 

Closes: midnight March 31

                         June 30

                         September 30

                         December 31

Fees:   £6 (£11 for 3)

Prizes: £60

            All entries receive critique.

Length: up to 500 words

Website: http://www.soszynski.btinternet.co.uk/primeprose/

E-mail:    primeprose@btinternet.com

Online entry?   yes

 

 

Scribble Short Story Competition

 

Closing date:  ongoing

Entry fee:        £3

Prize(s)          £75; £25; £15

Length:          up to 3000 words

Country:         UK

Website:        www.parkpublications.co.uk/scribble.htm

Online entry?  no

 

 

 

Secret Attic

This website appears to have ceased functioning

 

Spinetinglers Monthly Contest

Closes:  15th of month
Fees:     £2
Prizes:   £50 for 1st place - top 5 published online
Length:   up to 5000 words (double spaced|)
Genre:    ghost/horror

Website:  www.spinetinglers.co.uk
E-mail:   spinetinglers@btinternet.com
Online entry? 
 yes

 

StoryFeedback

 

Closing date: 28th February; 30th April; 30th June;

                    31st August; 31st October; 31st December

Entry fee:      £3; £6 includes tick-sheet critique; 
                    £15 includes tick-sheet & proof edit.

Prize(s)         £100; £50; £25

Length:          up to 3000 words

Country          UK:

Website:         www.storyfeedback.com

Email:             stories@storyfeedback.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

Txt Lit

 

Closing date: end of month

Entry fee:       £1 + charge for text message

Prize(s)          £50

Length:          160 characters

Country:         UK

Website:       www.txtlit.co.uk/

Online entry?  by text message

 

 

WordPlay Writers’ Forum Short Story Competition

 

Closing date: 25th of each month

Entry fee:       £5

Prize(s)          £75 + ezine publication + anthology publication + WordPlay accreditation;

                       £25 + WordPlay accreditiation

Length:          2500 words max

Website:         www.wordplaywriters.com

Email:             wordplaycompetitions@mail.com

Online entry?  yes

 


 

WriteOnSite

Online flash fiction

 

Runs:             every Saturday 17.30-18.00 GMT

Entry fee:       £3

Prize(s)          £40

Length:          whatever you can write in 20 minutes

Themes:         announced on site at 17.30

Country:         UK

Website:        www.write-invite.com/write-on-site.php

Online entry?      yes

 

     


POETRY


Aquillrelle Publishing Contest 1

  

Closes:          once 100 suitable poems received

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)          publication in anthology

Length:          35 lines max (including empty lines)

Country:         Belgium

Website:        www.aquillrelle.com/contests-p.htm

Email:             aquillrelle@aquillrelle.com

Online entry?   no

 

 

Envoi

 

Closing dates:  20th February; 20th June; 20th October

Entry fee:          £3, 5 for £12

Prize(s)             £150; £100; £50

Length              up to 40 lines

Country:            UK

Website:           www.cinnamonpress.com/envoi/competitions.htm

Online entry?    no

 

 

Writers' Forum poetry competition


monthly; late entries carried over to
following
month.

Fees:    £5; 2 for £7.

            Free critique with SAE.

Prizes:  £100; 3 runner-up prizes. Winners
and runners-up published in the magazine.

Length: up to 40 lines
Website: http://www.writers-forum.com
Email:    poetry@writers-forum.com
Online entry?    no (downloadable entry form)


 

 

NON-FICTION

 


Synergise Travellers’ Tales

 

Closing date: none

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)          £100

Length:          1500 – 3000 words

Genre:           travel articles

Country:         UK

Website:        www.synergise.com/tales/contributors.php

Online entry?  yes



 

                                  

 

                                                                         2010

July

GENERAL


Ink Tears
stories
opens 1st July (see November)

 

Creative Writing Workshop Competition

Poems/prose

 

Closing date: 15th July

Entry fee:       £3, 4 for £10

Prize(s)          £150 + copy of Leaf Writers Magazine

Length:          poems up to 20 lines; prose up to 300 words

Theme:           base work on writing exercise (see website)

Country:         UK

Website:         www.leafbooks.co.uk

Online entry?  yes

 

 

Wasafiri New Writing Prize

Poetry, fiction, life writing

 

Closing date: 30th July

Entry fee:       £5

Prize(s)          £300 (each category)

Length:          up to 3000 words

Country:         UK

Website:         www.wasafiri.org/prizes.asp

Email:             n.a.jones@open.ac.uk

Online entry?  yes (Word attachment)

 

 

 

Dreamquest One

Poetry and writing contest

 

Closing date:  31st July

Entry fees:     stories US$10; poems US$5

Prize(s)          stories: US$500; $250; $100 poems: US$250; $125; $50

Length:          stories: max 5 pages; poems max 30 lines

Country:         USA

Website:         www.dreamquestone.com

Email:             alwest56@hotmail.com

Online entry?   yes – but $2 surcharge per entry

 

 

Narrative Short Story Contest

Fiction & literary non-fiction incl. excerpts from larger works

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       $20

Prize(s)          $3250; $1500; $750; 10x$100

Length:          up to 15,000 words

Country:         USA

Website:        www.narrativemagazine.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

Slingink Prize

Adult fiction & poetry; junior fiction & poetry

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       adult £5; junior free

Prize(s)          adult categories £80; £40; £20;

                        junior categories £20; £15; £10 (Amazon vouchers)

Length:          adult fiction 3000 words max;

                       junior 1500 words max;

                       adult poetry up to 40 lines; junior up to 20 lines     

Country:         UK

Website:        http://slingink.com

Online entry?   yes

 

 

NOVELS

 

Creative Writing Blurb Competition

 

Closing date: 10th July

Entry fee:       £2

Prize(s)          £100; £50

Length:          100 words max

Theme:           design a back cover blurb for your new novel

Country:         UK

Website:         http://creativecompetitor.com/competitions

Email:             info@creative-competitor.co.uk

Online entry? yes

 

 

Creative Writing Synopsis Competition

 

Closing date: 31th July

Entry fee:       £2

Prize(s)          £100; £75; £50

Length:          no limit stated          

Country:         UK

Website:         http://creativecompetitor.com/competitions

Email:             info@creative-competitor.co.uk

Online entry?  yes

 

 

STORIES


Waterstones’ Perfectly Formed Short Story Competition

Closing date: 1st July

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)         1 week Arvon writing course + publication in Books

               Quarterly & online + £200 worth of books + lunch

                     with Will Atkins (editorial director of Pan Macmillan)

                     and James McCreet (author).

Length:          2000 words max

Country:         UK

Website:       www.wbqonline.com

Online entry?  yes (email only)

 

 

 

Guardian Weekend Short Story Competition

Open to UK residents aged 18 and over

 

Closing date: 10th July

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)          publication In the annual Guardian Weekend short fiction issue

Length:          2000 words max

Country:         UK

Website:        www.guardian.co.uk/books

Email:             short.story@guardian.co.uk.

Online entry?  yes

 

 

 

Doris Gooderson Short Story 2010

 

Closing date: 12th July

Entry fee:        £3; £5 for 2

Prize(s)          £150; £70; £40; best 3 published

Length:          up to 1200 words

Country:         UK

Website:         http://sites.google.com/site/wrekinwriters 

Email:             wrekinwriters@googlemail.com

Online entry?   no

 

 

Take a Break Young Writer of the Year 2010

Open to residents of UK and Eire aged

8-11; 12-14; 15-18

 

Closing date: 23rd July

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)          in each category: 13” Macbook + trip to London + publication

Length:          500 – 1000 words

Country:         UK

Website:        www.youngfictionwriteroftheyear.co.uk/

Online entry?  yes

 

 

Catherine Howard Short Story Competition

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       £5

Prize(s)          £100 min; £50 min; £20 min (see website)

Length:          500-5000 words

Country:         UK

Website:         http://akacatherinehoward.weebly.com

Email:             akacatherinehoward@yahoo.co.uk

Online entry?  no

 

 

Guildford Book Festival Short Story Competition

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       £5

Prize(s)          ePublishing contract + conversion to iPhone app

Length:          7000 words max (approx 90 minutes reading time)

Country:         UK

Website:         www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk

Email:             commutabooks@thebookwright.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

Hay on Wye Short Story Competition 2010

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       £6

Prize(s)          £400; £200; £100

Length:          up to 2000 words

Theme:          avarice

Country:        UK

Website:       www.hayshortstory.com

Online entry?  no

 

 

HISSAC Open Short Story Competition

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       £5; 3 for £12

Prize(s)          £400; 2x£50

Length:          2500 words max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.hissac.co.uk/2005_competition.html

Online entry?   no

 

 

(The) Lady Short Story Competition

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)          publication; £200 worth of books (Mills & Boon?)

Length:          1500-2000 words

Genre:            romance

Theme:           story based in or around a national Trust property

Country:         UK

Website:         www.lady.co.uk

Online entry?  no

 

 

 

Mere Literary Festival

 

            Due to an unforeseen change in circumstances, the organisers of Mere Literary Festival have decided to run a biennial poetry competition rather than the present annual one which has alternated between short story and poetry. Regretfully this means no short story competition in 2010 as previously announced. The next competition will be for poetry in 2011.

 

 

Sean O Faolain Short Story Competition

 

Closing date:  31st July

Entry fee:        €15/£10/US$20/£15

Prize(s)           €1500; €500;4x€100; all winners published

Length:            up to 3000 words

Country:           Ireland

Website:         www.munsterlit.ie

Online entry?   yes

 

 

 

NON-FICTION

 

Unbound Press Creative Non-fiction Competition

Non-fiction essay or 1st chapter of non-fiction book

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       £5

Prize(s)          1st chapter: £75; £25

                        essay: £100; £50; publication & free copy for winners & runners-up

Length:          up to 3000 words essay or 1st chapter of N-F book

Genre:            creative N-F (see website for definition)

Country           UK

Website:         www.unboundpress.co.uk

Email              upsubmissions@googlemail.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

 

POETRY

 

 

MsLexia Women’s Poetry Competition

 

Closing date: 26thJuly

Entry fee:       £5 per entry (up to 3 poems)

Prize(s)          £1000; £500; £250; 22x£25

Length:          any

Country:         UK

Website:         www.mslexia.co.uk

Email:             postbag@mslexia.co.uk

Online entry?   overseas only

 

 

Essex Poetry Festival

 

Closing date: 30th July

Entry fee:       £6, £20 for 5

Prize(s)          £1000; £500; £250; 3x£50

Length:          up to 40 lines

Country:         UK

Website:        www.essex-poetry-festival.co.uk/compb.html

Online entry?  no

 

 

Foyle Young Poets of the Year 2009

Poems by young people aged 11-17

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       £0

Prize(s)         Writing course; writing magazine subscription; anthology publication   

Length:          any

Country:        UK

Website:        www.poetrysociety.org.uk/

Online entry?   yes (not email)

 

 

Norman McCaig Centenary Poetry Competition

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       £5; £12 for 3

Prize(s)          1 week creative retreat; £200; £100; 10x£10 book tokens

Length:          50 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.topleftcorner.org
Online
entry?  yes

 

 

POETRY COLLECTIONS

 

 

Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize

For any 1st collection published in UK and Republic of Ireland 1/8/09 – 31/7/10

 

Closing date: 31st July

Entry fee:       free

Prize(s)          £3000

Length:          3 bound or proof copies (at least 40 pages)

Country:         UK

Website:         www.thepoetrytrust.org

Online entry?  no

 

 

 

 

 

 

August

 

 

GENERAL

 

 

Over the Edge New Writer of the Year 2010

Short story and poetry competition

 

Closing date: 3rd August

Entry fee:       1st €10, then €7.50

Prize(s)          fiction/poetry €300 + overall winner further €400

Length:          fiction 3000 words max

3 poems up to 40 lines each or one up to 100 lines

Country:         Ireland

Website:         http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Email:            over-the-edge-openreadings@hotmail.com

Online entry?  no

 

 

Aesthetica Creative Works Competition
stories, poems; artwork & photography

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       £10 (for upp to 2 entries in each categoty

Prize(s)          £500 in each category

Length:          stories 2000 words max; poems 40 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:        www.aestheticamagazine.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

Leaf Books Postcard & Short Travel Writing Competition

Postcard/article/diary entry/microfiction

 

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       £3, 4 for £10

Prize(s)          £150 + copies of Leaf Writers Magazine

Length:          up to 300 words

Theme:           travel/interesting destinations

Country:         UK

Website:         www.leafbooks.co.uk

Online entry?   yes

 

 

 

Tenby Arts Festival Writing Competition

Short stories & poems

 

Closing date: 31 August  

Entry fee:       short stories £4 each; poems £4, £6 for 2, £8 for 3

Prize(s)          each category: £150; £70; £30

Length:          stories 1500 words max; poems 40 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.academi.org/lit-comps/i/136606/

Online entry?   no

 

 

 

Wells Festival of Literature

Poetry, short stories

 

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       £4

Prize(s)          £500; £200; £100

Length:          poems 40 lines max; stories 1800-2000 words

Country:         UK

Website:         www.wlitf.co.uk/

Online entry?   no

 

 

 

STORIES

 

 

 

Three Lochs Festival Flash Fiction Competition

 

Closing date: 6th August

Entry fee:       £3

Prize(s)          £50

Length:          250 words max

Country:         UK

Website:         http://threelochscompetition.blogspot.com/

Online entry?  yes

 

 

Redstone SF: Towards an accessible future

 

Closing date:15th August

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)          $300

Length:          5000 words max

Theme:           see website

Website:         http://redstonesciencefiction.com/contest/

Email:             accessible-future@redstonesciencefiction.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

New Eastbourne Writers Short Story Competition

Closing date: 27th August
Entry fee:       £5, 2 for £7
Prize(s)          £50; £20; £10
Length:          1500 words max
Theme:           the journey
Country:         UK
Website:        www.neweastbournewriters.co.uk
Online entry?   no

 

 

 

Earlyworks Press Short Story Competition

 

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       up to 4000 words £5; 4-8000 words £10

Prize(s)          £100 + anthology publication

Length:          8000 words max

Country:         UK

Website:        www.earlyworkspress.co.uk/Competitions.htm

Online entry?  some – see website

 

 

Legend Writing Awards

Stories/flash fiction

Minimum age 15 years

 

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       stories: 1st entry £7, then £5 each (under 18s £3) flash fiction: £3

Prize(s)          stories: £500; £250; £100; 3x£50 flash fiction: £50; £30; £20; 3x£10

                        Young writers (15-17 yrs) prizes: £50; £30; £20

Length:          stories up to 2000 words; flashes 100 words exactly (excl title)

Country:`       UK

Website:        www.legendwritingaward.co.uk/

Online entry?  no

 

 

Spilling Ink Review Short Story Competition

 

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       £5

Prize(s)          £100; £50; publication & free copy of anthology

Length:          3000 words max

Country:         UK

Website:        http://spillinginkreview.com/competitions
Email:              spillingink.email@googlemail.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

 

Town and Village Short Story Comp  

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       £4

Prize(s)          £100; £30; £10

Length:          1200 words max

Theme:           a misunderstanding

Country:         UK

Website:         www.mags4dorset.co.uk/short-story-competition/

Online entry?  no

 

 

Words with JAM Short Story Competition

 

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       £6 for 1, £10 for 2

Prize(s)          £300; £100; £50

Length:          2500 words max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.wordswithjam.co.uk

Email:             submissions@wordswithjam.co.uk

Online entry?   yes - preferred

 

 

POETRY

 

Manchester Poetry Prize

 

Closing date: 6th August

Entry fee:       £15

Prize(s)          £10,000

Length:          3-5 poems, up to 120 lines in total

Country:         UK

Website:         www.manchesterwritingcompetition.co.uk

Online entry?   no

 

 

Arvon International Poetry Competition

 

Closing date: 16th August

Entry fee:       £7

Prize(s)          £7500; £2500; £1000; 3x£500

Length:          42 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         http://arvonfoundation.org/p236.html

Online entry?  yes

 

 

Havant Literary Festival Poetry Competition

 

Closing date: 16th August

Entry fee:       £4

Prize(s)          ££200; £100; £50

Length:          40 lines max

Theme:           transition

Country:         UK

Website:         www.havantlitfest.org.uk

Online entry?  no

 

 

 

Sentinel Literature Festival Poetry Competition

 

Closing date: 20th August

Entry fee:       1@£5; 2@£10; 3@£13; 5@£20

Prize(s)          £250; £130; £70

Length:          40 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/literaturefestival

Email:             sentinelpoetry@gmail.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

 

Countryside Tales Autumn Poetry

 

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       £3

Prize(s)          £50; £25; £15

Length:          up to 40 lines

Theme:           the countryside in autumn

Country:         UK

Website:        www.parkpublications.co.uk/writingcompetion.htm

Online entry?  no

 

 

 

Nottingham Open Poetry competition

 

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       £3; £10 for 4

Prize(s)          £300; £150; £75

Length:          40 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.nottinghampoetrysociety.co.uk/

Online entry?   no

 

 

 

Salopian Poetry Society

 

Closing date: 31st August

Entry fee:       £3; £10 for 4

Prize(s)          £200

Length:          40 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.thesalopianpoetrysociety.webeden.co.uk

Online entry?  no

 

 

 

 

 

September

GENERAL

 

Ilkley Literature Festival

Short stories & poems

 

Closing date: 1st September

Entry fee:       £4

Prize(s)          £200 each category

Length:          stories 3000 words max; poems 30 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk

Online entry?   no

 

 

 

Poole Literary Festival New Media Prize

 

Closing date: 15th September

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)          Best New Media Writing: £250 + iPad

                     Best Student New Media Writing: £250 +iPad

Length:          none specified

Genre:            fiction/non-fiction written for delivery by PC/Mac/mobile etc

Country:         UK

Website:         www.poolelitfest.com/new-media-prize.php

Email:           prize@poolelitfest.com

Online entry?   yes – email only

 

 

Glass Woman Prize

Short fiction or creative non-fiction by woman

 

Closing date: 21st September

Entry fee:       none

Prize(s)          $500; $100; $50

Length:          50 – 5000 words

Theme:           subject of significance to women

Country:         USA

Website:        www.sigriddaughter.com

Email:             glasswomanprize@gmail.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

NOVELS

 

Earlyworks Press Children/Teen Fiction Competition

 

Closing date: 30th September

Entry fee:       £14

Prize(s)          £100 + publication OR £350

Length:          send up to 5000 words (incl proposal and/or synopsis). See website for guidance on length of complete MSS

Country:         UK

Website:         www.earlyworkspress.co.uk/childrens_fiction_competition.htm

Online entry?  no

 

Three Day Novel Comp
write a novel in a weekend

Register by: 3rd September

Runs:            4-6th September

Entry fee:       $50

Prize(s)          publication; $500; $100

Length:          as much as you can write in 3 days

Country:         Canada

Website:        www.3daynovel.com/about/?contest

Email:             info@3daynovel.com

Online entry?  no

 

STORIES


Debut Short Story Competition

Closing date: 1st September

Entry fee:       £4

Prize(s)          £100; £50; £25

Length:          3000 words max

Theme:           the old cottage

Country:         UK
Website:         www.parkpublications.co.uk/writingcompetion.htm

Online
entry?   no

 

Biscuit Publishing Flash Fiction Prize

Closing date: 14th September

Entry fee:       £9

Prize(s)          £1000; 3250; £100; 7x£25

Length:          250-750 words

Country:         UK

Website:        www.biscuitpublishing.com

Email:            info@biscuitpublishing.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

The Asham Award
open to female UK residents over 18

Closing date: 30th September

Entry fee:       £15 (concessions £10)

Prize(s)          £1000; £500; £300

Length:          4000 words max

Theme:           ghost/gothic

Country:         UK

Website:        www.ashamaward.com/

Online entry?   no

 

 

Leaf Books Micro-Fiction Competition

 

Closing date: 30th September

Entry fee:       £3; £10 for 4

Prize(s)          £150

Length:          300 words max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.leafbooks.co.uk

Online entry?   yes

 

 

Longworth Editors Short Story Competition

 Closing date: 30th September

Entry fee:       £10

Prize(s)          £250; 2x£100

Length:          3000 words max

Theme:           loss

Country:         UK

Website:         www.longwortheditors.com

Email:             competitions@longwortheditors.com

Online entry?   yes

 

The Yellow Room Short Story Comp 

Closing date: 30th September

Entry fee:       £4 (3 for £10)

Prize(s)          £80; £45; £20

Length:          2500 words max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.theyellowroom-magazine.co.uk

Online entry?   no

 

 

POETRY

 

Nottingham Open Poetry Comp

Closing date: 7th September

Entry fee:       £3 (4 for £10)

Prize(s)          £300; £150; £75

Length:          40 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.nottinghampoetrysociety.co.uk/

Online entry?   no

 

Basil Bunting Poetry Award

 

Closing date: 30th September

Entry fee:       1st enrty £7, then £3 each

Prize(s)          £1000; £500; £250; 3x£75

Length:          42 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.basilbuntingaward.co.uk/

Online entry?   yes

 

 

 

POETRY COLLECTIONS

 

 

Picador Poetry Prize

Collection by previously unpublished writers

 

Closing date: 1st September

Entry fee:       none – one entry per person

Prize(s)          £1000 + publishing contract (Macmillan)

Length:          10 pages

Country:         UK

Website:        www.picador.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

October

GENERAL

 

 

Leaf Books Tiny Weeny Competition

Writing and drawing

 

Closing date: 31st October

Entry fee:       £2; 6 for £10

Prize(s)          £75 + free sub to magazine

Length:          140 characters max (incl letters, spaces & punctuation)

Country:         UK

Website:         www.leafbooks.co.uk

Online entry?   yes

 

 

Spilling Ink Review Flash Fiction / Prose Poetry Competition

 

Closing date:  31st October

Entry fee:       £5

Prize(s)          £100; £50; publication & free copy of anthology

Length:          1000 words max

Country:         UK

Website:         http://spillinginkreview.com/competitions

Email:             spillingink.email@googlemail.com

Online entry?   yes

 

 

 

Unbound Press Competition 3
poetry/flash fiction

Closing date: 31st October

Entry fee:       £3

Prize(s)          £30; £15

Length:          poems 40 lines max; flashes 400 words max

Country:         UK

Website:         http://freespace.virgin.net/nicola.taylor/unboundpress-competition.htm

Email:             upsubmissions@googlemail.com

Online entry?  yes, email only

 

 

 

NOVELS

 

 

The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition
Children's novel

Closing date: 29th October

Entry fee:       free

Prize(s)          publishing contract + £10,000 advance

Length:          80,000 words max+synopsis, plot plan & submission letter

Age range:    9-16 years

Country:         UK

Website:         www.doublecluck.com/submissions

Online entry?   no

 

 

 

STORIES

 

 

 

Caketrain Chapbook Competition

Novella/short story collection

 

Closing date: 1st October

Entry fee:       $15

Prize(s)          $250 + publication + 25 copies

Length:          40 – 80 pages (12,000 – 26,000 words)

Country:         USA

Website:        www.caketrain.org/competitions/

Email:             caketrainjournal@hotmail.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

 

H E Bates Writing Competition

 

Closing date: 4th October

Entry fee:       £4 (under 18s £1)

Prize(s)          £150;£100; £50; Northampton prize £50

Length:          2000 words max

Country:         UK

Website:        www.hebatescompetition.org.uk/

Email:          hebatescomp@gmail.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

RRofihe Trophy

Closing date: 15th October

Entry fee:       $10

Prize(s)          $500 + trophy + publication in Open City magazine

Length:          5000 words max

Country:         USA

Website:         www.opencity.org/rofihe.html

Online entry?   no

 

 

 

Raspberry and Vine Short Story Competition

 

Opens:           1st July

Closing date:   29th October

Entry fee:       AUS$10 ($8 for students)

Prize(s)          AUS$300

Length:          4000 words max

Country:         Australia

Website:         http://home.swiftdsl.com.au

Online entry?  no

 

 

Rome Short Story Competition

 

Closing date: 31st October

Entry fee:       €5

Prize(s)          €100; €50; €25

Length:          1000-2000 words

Theme:           Rome + Italian food

Country:         Italy

Website:         www.cordelia.net/index.htm

Online entry?   yes

 

 

 

The Tom Gallon/Olive Cook Award
open to UK citizens who have had at least one short story published

Closing date: 31st October

Entry fee:       free

Prize(s)          £1000

Length:          5000 words max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.societyofauthors.org/

Online entry?  no

 

 

 

GRAPHIC STORIES

 

 

Observer/Jonathan Cape/Graphica
Graphic Short Story Prize

Closing date: 6th October

Entry fee:        none

Prize(s)          £1000 + publication in Observer Review

                        £250 + publication onwww.guardian.co.uk

Length:          4 pages

Country:         UK

Website:        www.vintage-books.co.uk/

Online entry?   no

 

 

 

POETRY

 

 

Troubador International Poetry Prize

Closing date: 15th October

Entry fee:       £5 per poem (1-4), £4 (5+)

Prize(s)          £1000; £500; £250; 20x£20

Length:          45 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.coffeehousepoetry.org

Email:             CoffPoetry@aol.com

Online entry?   yes

 

 

 

Cannon Poets Poetry Competition

 

Closing date: 31st October

Entry fee:       First entry £4, then £2.50

Prize(s)          £200; £100; £50

Length:          14 lines (with structure)

Theme:           sonnet or not

Country:         UK

Website:         www.cannonpoets.co.uk

Online entry?   no

 

 


National Poetry Competition 

Closing date: 31st October

Entry fee:       £6 first poem, then £3 each

Prize(s)          £5000; £1000; 7x£100

Length:          40 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.poetrysociety.org.uk

Online entry?   yes

 

Newark Poetry Society Comp

Closing date: 31st October

Entry fee:       £3

Prize(s)          £150;£100; £50

Length:          40 lines max

Country:         UK

Website:         www.newarkpoetrysociety.co.uk

Online entry?   no

 

The Plough Prize

Closing date: 31st October

Entry fee:       £4 (4 for £14, online £4.35

Prize(s)          £500; £200; £100 in first 2 categories; poem for children £100

Length:          open poem up to 40 lines; short poem up to 10 lines;

              poem for children unrestricted

Country:         UK

Website:         www.theploughprize.co.uk/

Online entry?   yes

 

Ragged Raven Poetry Comp

Closing date: 31st October 

Entry fee:       £3 (4 for £10)

Prize(s)          £300; 4x£50

Length:          any    

Country:         UK

Website:        www.raggedraven.co.uk/competition.htm

Online entry?   no

 

 

 

SONGWRITING

 

 

International Songwriting Competition

 

Closing date: 6th October

Entry fee:       $30,

Prize(s)          $150,000 total (shared by 65 winners);

Length:          any

Country:         USA

Website:         www.songwritingcompetition.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

 

 

 

November

 

GENERAL

 

Cinnamon Press
Poetry collection/Short Story/Novella 
 

Closing date: 30th November

Entry fee:       £16

Prize(s)          novel/novella £400; story £100; poem £100

Length:          novel/novella: first 10,000 words; stories: 2-4000 words;

                       poems: 10 poems of up to 40 lines

Country:         UK

Website:        www.cinnamonpress.com/competitions.htm

Email:            jan@cinnamonpress.com

Online entry?  yes

 

 

 

New Writer

Prose and poetry

 

Closing date:  30th November

Entry fees:     poems £5 for up to two; collections (6-10 poems) £12; stories £5; serial/novella £15; essays/articles/interviews £5

Prize(s)          poems £100;£75; £50  collections £300; £200; £100  stories  £300; £200;     £100   serials/novellas £300  articles £150; £100; £50

Max Length:  poems 40 lines; stories 4000 words; serials/novellas 20, 000 words; articles etc 2000 words

Country:         UK

Website:         www.thenewwriter.com/prizes.htm

Online entry?  yes

 

 

STORIES

Mary Gornall Memorial Competition

 

Closing date: 15th November

Entry fee:       1st entry £4, then £3

Prize(s)          £100; £40; £20

Length:          up to 2000 words

Country:         UK

Website:         www.freewebs.com/barneyc/shortstorycompetition.htm

Online entry?    no

 

Ink Tears

 

Closing date: 30th November (opens 1st July)

Entry fee:       £4.50

Prize(s)          £150; £50; 4x£25

Length:          1000 – 3000 words

Country:         UK

Website:         www.inktears.com

Email:             amhowcroft@inktears.com

Online entry?  online only

 

POETRY

Segora Open Poetry Competition

Closing date: 14th November

Entry fees:     £3.50 for 1; £6 for 2; £8 for 3; £9.50 for 4; £11 for 5

Prize(s)          £100; £30; £15

Length:          40 lines max

Country:         France

Website:         www.poetryproseandplays.co.uk/poetryentryform.htm

Online entry?   no

 

POETRY COLLECTIONS

Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition

Closing date:  29th November
Entry fee:      £25 (discount available)
Prize(s)          £2000 (shared) + publication
Length:          20 - 24 pages of poems
Country:        UK
Website:        www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/index.php/competition

Online entry?  yes

 

 

December

 

NOVELS

 

Terry Pratchett Anywhere but Here, Anywhen but Now

First Novel Prize

 

 

Closing date: 31st December

Entry fee:        none

Prize(s)          Transworld publishing contract + £20,000 advance

Length:          80,000 – 150,000 words + synopsis (600 words max)

Setting:          Earth: any time, past, future, present parallel

Country:         UK

Website:         www.terrypratchett.co.uk

Email:             pratchettprize@transworldpublishers.co.uk

Online entry?  yes

 

 

 

STORIES

 

Words Magazine:

 

Closing date: 31st December

Entry fee:        £0

Prize(s)          £100

Length:          up to 2000 words

Country:         UK

Website:         www.wordsmag.com

Email:            admin@wordsmag.com

Online entry?  yes