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Kinglake Unpublished Author Competition: Novels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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
