NOVELS
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
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
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:
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
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?
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
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.
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
GENERAL
Huddersfield Literary Festival
Stories and poems
Closing date: 10th February
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £200; £100; £50
Length: stories up to 1000 words; poems up to 10 lines
Country: UK
Website: www.litfest.org.uk
Online entry? no
Kudos Writing Competition
Poems, microstories, intro to short story
Closing date: 12th February
Entry fee: £0
Prize(s) 1 year sub to Kudos or Orbis
Length: poem 30 lines max; microstory 50 words max
Theme: incorporating words ‘161’ and ‘peacock’
Country: UK
Website: www.kudoswritingcompetitions.com/
Email: baldock.carole@googlemail.com
Online entry? yes
Closing date: 15th February
Entry fee: £4, then £3
Prize(s) £500; £200; £75
Length: 196-204 words
Country: UK
Website: www.ambitmagazine.co.uk/200words.htm
Online entry? no
Leaf Books: Wales
Closing date: 15th February
Entry fee: £3; 4 for £10
Prize(s) £150 + copy of anthology
Length: poems max 40 lines; stories max 1000 words
micro-fiction max 300 words
Theme: Wales
Country: UK
Website: http://leafbooks.co.uk/
Online entry? yes
Brit Writers Award
Open to British citizens, and people resident in the UK, aged 5 years and over
Poetry, novels, short stories, non-fiction, children’s stories, songwriting
Closing date: 26th February
Entry fee: £10.95 (unlimited submissions)
Prize(s) £10,000
Length: stories: adult 1000-5000 words; junior 3000 words max; others unspecified
Country: UK
Website: www.britwriters.co.uk/index.html
Email: enquiries@britwriters.co.uk
Online entry? yes
Closing date: 27th February
Entry fee: stories £5, £10 for 3
poems £3, £5 for 3
Prize(s) stories: £200; £50; 3x£25
poems: £100; £50; 2x£25
Length: stories 2500 words max
poems – no limit
Country: UK
Website: www.brighterwriters.org.uk/
Email: brighter_writers@btinternet.com
Online entry? yes
Grace Dieu 2010
poems and short stories
Closing date: 28th February
Entry fee: poems: £3; £10 for 4; each additional £2
Stories: first entry £5, then £3 each
Prize(s) £350; £150; £75; £50; £25 in each category
Length: poems up to 40 lines
Stories up to 2000 words
Country: UK
Website: www.gracedieuwriterscircle.co.uk/
Email: tonygutteridge@live.com
Online entry? no
Myriad Editions Writers’ Retreat Competition
Work in progress – novel, short story collection or script
Closing date: 28th February
Entry fee: free
Prize(s) 1 week writers’ retreat at West Dean College, Sussex, England
Length: synopsis (300 words max) + up to 10,000 words
Country: UK
Website: www.myriadeditions.com/Competition
Email: vicky@myriadeditions.com
Online entry? yes
NOVEL
Chapter One Novel Competition
For unpublished MSS
Closing date: 28th February
Entry fee: £20
Prize(s) £500 + publication (2 yrs to complete mss)
Length: send 3 chapters + synopsis
Country: UK
Website: www.chapteronepromotions.com
Online entry? no
Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices
Childrens’ Book Award
open to writers who have not previously published a novel for children
Closing date: 26th February
Entry fee: none
Prize(s) £1500 + option to publish
Length: 15,000-35,000 words
Age range: 8-12 years
Theme: should celebrate cultural diversity
Country: UK
Website: www.sevenstories.org.uk
Online entry? yes
Kelpies Prize 2010
new Scottish writing for children aged 9-12
Closing date: 26th February
Entry fee: none
Prize(s) £2000
Length: 40,000-70,000 words
Setting: wholly or mainly in Scotland
Country: UK
Website: www.florisbooks.co.uk/kelpiesprize/enter.html
Online entry? no
Rose & Crown New Novel Competition
Closing date: 28th February
Entry fee: £18
Prize(s) £200; £100 + publication for top 3
Length: 40,000 – 150,000
Theme: Christian Inspirational Romance (any genre)
Country: UK
Website: www.roseandcrownbooks.com/
Online entry? Both hard copy AND digital files required
STORIES
Countryside Tales Short Story
Closing date: 1st February
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £75; £25; £15
Length: up to 2000 words
Theme: a country story
Country: UK
Website: www.parkpublications.co.uk
Online entry? no
Creative Competitor: Jealousy
Closing date: 14th February
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £100; £75; £50
Length: 2000 words max
Theme: jealousy
Country: UK
Website: http://creativecompetitor.com/competitions
Email: info@creative-competitor.co.uk
Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook Short Story Competition
Closing date: 14th February
Entry fee: none
Prize(s) £500 + place on Arvon course
Length: 2000 words max
Theme: union or unity
Country: UK
Website: www.writersandartists.co.uk/short-story-competition/
Online entry? yes
Pentland Writers 2010
Closing date: 28th February
Entry fee: £4, £10 for 3
Prize(s) £50 (adult); £25 (local); £25 (young writers)
Length: adult 1500 words max; young writers max 750
Theme: ten
Country: UK
Website: www.west-linton.org.uk/content/competition
Email: pwgcompetition@west-linton.org.uk
Online entry? yes
Closing date: 28th February
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £80; £40; £25; 3x£10
Length: 1000-1500 words
Theme: A new day
Country: UK
Website: www.writersreign.co.uk/WR-Short-Story-Competition-2010.html
Email: editor@writersreign.co.uk
Online entry? yes
PROSE
Winter Storm
For a passage of descriptive writing
Closing date: 25th February
Entry fee: £2
Prize(s) £75; £50; e-Book
Length: n/a
Theme: winter storm
Country: UK
Website: www.creativecompetitor.com/competitions
Email: email@creative-competitor.co.uk
Online entry? yes
POETRY
Strokestown International Poetry Competition
Closing date: 5th February
Entry fee: postal £5; e-mail €6
Prize(s) €4000; €2000; €1000
Length: In English - max 70 lines;
Irish/Scots Gaelic max - 70 lines
Humorous verse – any reasonable length
Country: Ireland
Website: www.strokestownpoetry.org/
Online entry? yes
Wigtown Poetry Competition
Closing date: 5th February
Entry fee: £6.50 each, £17 for first 3, thereafter £5 each or £12 for 3
Prize(s) £2500; £750 8x£50; Gaelic Prize £500
Length: 40 lines max
Country: UK
Website: www.wigtownbookfestival.com/poetrycomp
Online entry? no
Norwich Writers’ Circle Open Poetry Competition
Closing date: 16th February
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £200; £100; £50; £35; 2x£15
Length: 40 lines max
Country: UK
Website: www.norwichwriters.org.uk
Email: norwichwriters@hotmail.co.uk
Online entry? no
Gumnuts Poetry Competition
Closing date: 28th February
Entry fee: AUS$5; AUS$15 for 5
Prize(s) AUS$100; AUS$50 + publication
Length: max 8 lines
Country: Australia
Website: www.scribbligum.com/
Online entry? yes
POETRY COLLECTIONS
Flarestack Poets Pamphlet Collection
Closing date: 28th February
Entry fee: £18 per collection
Prize(s) £250 + publication
Length: 20-30 pages of poems (any length)
Country: UK
Website: www.flarestackpoets.co.uk/
Online entry? no
GENERAL
New South Writing Contest 2010
Poetry and fiction
Closing date: 4th March
Entry fee: $15 for 1 story or up to 3 poems
Prize(s) $1000; $250 in each category
Length: none specified
Country: USA
Website: www.review.gsu.edu/contest_ns.html
Email: new_south@langate.gsu.edu
Online entry? no
Whittaker Prize 2010
Poems & short stories
Register by: 7th March
Closing date: 10th July
Entry fee: £15 per category or £25 for both (covers all 9 rounds)
Prize(s) £100 in each category
Length: stories up to 2500 words, poems up to 40 lines
Country: UK
Website: www.helenwhittaker.net/phpBB2/
Email: donnagee@vianet.ca
Online entry? yes
Writers-Editors Network 2010
Non-fiction: article/essay/column/book chapter
Fiction: short story/novel chapter
Children’s literature: short story/non-fiction article/book chapter/poem
Poetry: free verse/traditional
Closing date: 15th March
Entry fee: under 3000 words: £5 (members), $10 (non-members)
3000-5000 words: $10 (members), $20 (non-members)
poems: $3(members), $5(non-members)
Prize(s) $100;$75; $50 in each category
Length: 5000 words max
Country: USA
Website: www.writers-editors.com/Writers/Contests
Online entry? no
Glass Woman Prize
Fiction or creative non-fiction written by a woman
Closing date: 21st March
Entry fee: none
Prize(s) $600; $100; $50
Length: 50-5000 words
Subject: must be of significance to women
Country: USA
Website: www.sigriddaughter.com/GlassWomanPrize.htm
Email: glasswomanprize@comcast.net
Online entry? yes
John Reid/Tom Howard Short Story, Essay and Prose Contest
Stories, essays, articles, one-act plays
Closing date: 30th March
Entry fee: $15
Prize(s) $3000; £1000; $400; $250; 6x$150
Length: 5000 words max
Country: USA
Website: http://shortstorycontest.0catch.com/
Online entry? yes
STORIES
Limnisia Short Story Competition
Closing date: 1st March
Entry fee: £5
Prize(s) 2xWriting Seminar/writing holiday/holiday; 8x50% discount on Seminar;25% reduction
Length: 3000 words max
Country: UK
Website: www.limnisa.com
Email: entries@limnisa.com
Online entry? yes
Creative Competitor: What if?
Closing date: 7th March
Entry fee: £2
Prize(s) £75; £50; £40
Length: 1500 max
Theme: follow on from situation posed on website
Country: UK
Website: http://creativecompetitor.com/competitions
Email: info@creative-competitor.co.uk
Online entry? yes
Bundaberg Writers’ Club
Unpublished Short Story Competition
Closing date: 12th March
Entry fee: AUS$5
Prize(s) AUS$300; AUS$100
Length: 2500 words max
Country: Australia
Website: www.bundywriters.com
Online entry? no
Segora Vignette Competition
Closing date: 15th March
Entry fee: £3; £5 for 2
Prize(s) £30; £10
Length: up to 300 words
Country: France
Website: www.poetryproseandplays.co.uk/
Online entry? no
Fish One-Page Story Prize
Closing date: 20th March
Entry fee: €12 (online); €15 (postal)
Prize(s) €1000; 9x€50 + publishing in anthology
Length: 300 words max
Country: Ireland
Website: www.fishpublishing.com
Online entry? yes
Calderdale Council Short Story Competition
Closing date: 26th March
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £300; £100; £50
Length: 3000 words max
Country: UK
Website: www.calderdale.gov.uk
Online entry? no
Bristol Short Story Prize
Closing date: 31st March
Entry fee: £7
Prize(s) £500+£150 Waterstone’s gift card; £350+£100 gift card;
£200+£100 gift card; 17x£50
Length: 3000 words max
Country: UK
Website: www.bristolprize.co.uk/
Online entry? yes
Exeter Short Story Prize
Closing date: 31st March
Entry fee: £3.50
Prize(s) £200; £100; £50
Length: 3000 words max
Country: UK
Website: www.exeterwriters.org.uk/competition.html
Email: info@exeterwriter.org.uk
Online entry? no
Write a Story for Children
Closing date: 31st March
Entry fee: £3 (10x2nd class UK stamps preferred)/$10/€10
Prize(s) £2000
Length: 2000 words max
Theme: suitable for any age group up to teenage
Country: UK
Website: www.childrens-writers.co.uk/competition.htm#
Online entry? no
The Yellow Room Short Story Competition
Closing date: 31st March
Entry fee: £4 (£10 for 3)
Prize(s) 380; £45; £20
Length: 2500 words max
Country: UK
Website: www.theyellowroom-magazine.co.uk
Online entry? no
ARTICLES
Natur Cymru’s Writing Challenge
Closing date: 31st March
Entry fee: none
Prize(s) £500 + publication
Length: 1000 words max
Theme: topical environment or wildlife interest
Country: UK
Website: www.naturcymru.org.uk
Email: info@naturcymru.org.uk
Online entry? yes
POEMS
David Burland Poetry Prize 2010
For poems in English or French
Closing date: 31st March
Entry fee: 1st entry £5, then £3 (max 3)
Prize(s) £150; £50; £30
Length: 40 lines max
Country: UK
Website: www.davidburlandpoetryprize.com/
Email: enquiries@davidburlandpoetryprize.com
Online entry? no
Choices Poetry Competition
Closing date: 31st March
Entry fee: £2
Prize(s) £100; £50
Length: open
Theme: intricacies of an inner choice
Country: UK
Website: www.creativecompetitor.com/competitions
Email: email@creative-competitor.co.uk
Online entry? yes
Once Written Poetry Contest
Closing date: 31st March
Entry fee: $15
Prize(s) £500; $100 + publication
Length: no limit
Country: USA
Website: www.oncewritten.com/Contests/PoetryContest.php
Email: owcontests@oncewritten.com
Online entry? yes
NOVELS
Unbound Press: First Chapter Competition
For 1st chapter of an unpublished novel
Closing date:30th April
Entry fee: £5
Prize(s) £75; £25
Length: 3000 words max
Country: UK
Website: www.unboundpress.co.uk
Email: upsubmissions@googlemail.com
Online entry? yes
STORIES
Twist in the Tale
Closing date: 29th April
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £150; £100; £75; Creative Inspirations e-Course
Length: 1200 words max
Theme: twist in the tale
Country: UK
Website: www.creativecompetitor.com/competitions
Email: email@creative-competitor.co.uk
Online entry? yes
Momaya Short Story Competition
Closing date: 30th April
Entry fee: £8
Prize(s) £110; £55; £30
Length: 3000 words max
Theme: family
Country: UK
Website: www.momayapress.com
Online entry? yes
Unbound Press Short Story Competition
Closing date: 30th April
Entry fee: £5
Prize(s) £100; £50
Length: 3000 words max
Country: UK
Website: www.unboundpress.co.uk
Email: upsubmissions@googlemail.com
Online entry? yes
POETRY
Buxton Poetry Competition
Closing date: 1st April
Entry fee: £5
Prize(s) £300; £200; £100
Length: 40 lines max
Theme: A breath of fresh air
Country: UK
Website: www.derby.ac.uk/buxtonpoetrycompetition
Online entry? no
Closing date: 1st April
Entry fee: free
Prize(s) $1500; $800; $400; 12x$75
Length: any
Country: USA
Website: /www.winningwriters.com/contests/
Online entry? yes
Earlyworks Press Web Poetry Competition
Closing date: 30th April
Entry fee: £3, £12 for up to 6
Prize(s) £75; 5x£5
Length: 40 lines max
Country: UK
Website: www.earlyworkspress.co.uk
Online entry? yes
Grey Hen Poetry Competition
Poems written by women over 60
Closing date: 30th April
Entry fee: £3, £10 for 4
Prize(s) £100; £75; £25
Length: 40 lines max
Country UK:
Website: www.greyhenpress.com
Online entry? no
Southport Writers’ Circle
International Poetry Competition
Closing date: 30th April
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £200; £100; £50; Local prize £25;
Humour prize £25
Length: 40 lines max
Country: UK
Website: www.swconline.co.uk
Online entry? no
Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition
Closing date: 30th April
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £500; £200; £100;
Redpage sonnet prize £100
Length: 50 lines max
Country: UK
Website: www.poetrypf.co.uk/images/compware2010.pdf
Online entry? no
GENERAL
UWP 2010 Love Competition
Stories and poems – open to Christian writers aged 16+
Closing date: 30th May
Entry fee: poems £3; stories £5
Prize(s) £150 each category
Length: poems up to 30 lines
stories up to 1500 words
Theme: Love
Country: UK
Website: www.uniquewritingpublications.org.uk/
Email: dlmoskal@hotmail.com
Online entry? no
NON-FICTION
Countryside Tales Article Competition
Closing date: 1st May
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £50; £25; £15
Length: up to 1500 words
Theme: nature, countryside memories etc
Country: UK
Website: www.parkpublications.co.uk/writingcompetion.htm
Online entry? no
Natural Health Article Competition
Closing date: 5th May
Entry fee: £2
Prize(s) £75; £50; Challenging Creative Writing Project e-Book
Length: 800 words max
Theme: natural health
Country: UK
Website: www.creativecompetitor.com/competitions
Email: email@creative-competitor.co.uk
Online entry? yes
Welsh Poetry Competition
Closing date: 30th May
Entry fee: £3
Prize(s) £300; £150; £75
Length: 50 lines max
Country: UK
Website: www.welshpoetry.co.uk/index.html
Online entry? yes
Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition
Closing date: 8th May
Entry fee: £18
Prize(s) 4x£500 + publication
Length: 18 – 24 pages
Country: UK
Website: www.templarpoetry.co.uk
Email: submissions@templarpoetry.co.uk
Online entry? yes
GENERAL
Bridport Prize
Poems, short stories, flash fiction
Closing date: 30th June
Entry fees: flash fiction £5; poems £6; stories £7
Prize(s) poetry/short story: £5000; £1000; £500; 10x£59
flash fiction £1000
Length: stories 5000 words max; poems 42 lines max;
flash fiction max 250 words
Country: UK
Website: www.bridportprize.org.uk/index.htm
Online entry? yes
Writers’ Bureau Poetry & Short Story Competition
Closing date: 30th June
Entry fee: £5/$9
Prize(s) £1000; £400; £200; £100; 6x£50 in each category
Length: stories 2000 words max; poems 40 lines max
Country: UK
Website: www.writersbureau.com/competition/
Online entry? yes
NOVEL
C.B. Barrie Competition
Closing date: 1st June
Entry fee: £0
Prize(s) publication of novel + royalties
Length: send 2 chapters of completed (60,000+ words) MSS
Country: UK
Website: www.local-legend.co.uk
Email: info@local-legend.co.uk
Online entry? yes, email only
The Marple Poetry Competition
Formal/free verse or humorous poetry
Closing date: 2nd June
Entry fee: £3. £7 for 3, £9 for 7
Prize(s) £125; £50 in each category;
book tokens for short listed entries
Length: 40 lines max
Country: UK
Website: www.marplewriting.org.uk
Online entry? no
