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COMPETITION WINNER
GRAND FLASH PRIZE

FIRST PLACE

£1,000

Kamali

by Carrie Hynds

Carrie works as an editor and proofreader scratch is a completely different
based in Brighton and Hove. challenge from editing what is already
She loves walks by the sea, kayaking, there, and she would like to thank
kickboxing, pubs, dogs, and storytelling her friends and partner for their
in all its forms. Creating a story from encouragement to keep writing.

Life is hart today. jumping around on her page too.
I look at the words scratched into my arm, trace my “Ow,” she complains, and then Mrs Bingham is
fingers over each letter. Notice the spelling mistake
too late. against me too because I Shouldn’t Be Cheating and
Ashamed, I pull down my cuff and hide the Should Tie My Hair Back Because It Distracts The
compass in my clenched fist. Pair of compasses, Mrs Other Students.
Bingham always says, because a compass is on ships
and this one draws circles. Except mine are never I am given an elastic band and Excused. In the girls’
circles, they’re almost-circles with a bump where my toilets I stare at my reflection over the tiny sink and
finger is. How does everyone else get their fingers out wish, wish, wish I could disappear.
of the way in time?
Imagine if nobody could. We’d have knobbly bits My reflection winks.
sticking out of roundabouts and clocks. Startled, I step back. The Kamali in the mirror
“Oi, Marley! Think fast!” has the same uniform, same Afro, same elastic band
The apple core bounces off my head and I look up dangling from her fingers, but she’s taller and she’s
in time to see George fist-bumping his mates. They smiling.
honk and snort and cackle and I wish I had powers like She rolls up her sleeve and shows me her arm. It has
Matilda because I’d make the apple fly back towards his the same words as mine but in black marker pen:
smug face and then make the stick bit at the top go up Life is hart today.
his nose. Then she rolls up her other sleeve. It says:
And by the way my name’s not Marley, it’s Kamali, Try again tomoro.
and my family’s not even from Jamaica. George Then I blink and regular Kamali is back.
actually stinks but he scores goals so he gets fist- I try to tie my hair up but the stupid elastic breaks
bumps and everyone pretends they can’t smell him. and I hear Mrs Bingham cry Help and wonder how she
Except Mrs Bingham who says he Should Take A knows already.
Minute To Freshen Up but it would take more than Then she makes a weird noise like PEEPEEPEE.
a minute. EPI.
Then the bell rings which means the end of In a flash I am in the corridor at the First Aid Kit,
playground torture but more sums torture. I stare at then at Mrs Bingham’s desk and her face is grey and I
my page. The numbers jump around. I lean closer roll up her sleeve and without a second’s thought I stick
to Becca who sits next to me but the numbers are the epi pen into her arm.
And there is silence but I know it has worked and I
say, “You’ll be okay now,” and Mrs Bingham smiles as if
those words are meant for her.

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Grace’s Index SECOND
PLACE
by Ann Baillie
£250
1989
Stars in the milky way: 100 thousand million Ann Baillie has
If the sun were to stop burning and form a black hole the diameter would measure one and a half been writing
kilometres for a number of
Space and gravity: Rab – ½ Rgab = Tab years, having
Countries in the world: 174 completed the
Countries that I have visited: 4 (including England) Faber Academy’s
Population of London: 6.8m Writing a Novel
% of people I know in London: Not statistically significant course as well
Distance from the earth to the moon: 233,855 miles as a two year
Distance from London to Glasgow: 403.6 miles programme
The number of times I have visited my parents in the last eighteen months: once with New
The number of times my parents have argued: infinity Writing South
Chances that my dad was unfaithful more than once: 95% in Brighton. This
The number of times my mum found out: once was her first
Probability that mum or dad will ask me to take sides in their argument: 100% attempt at flash
Average number of minutes after my mum has finished a bottle of wine that she calls me: Five fiction, which
Number of Tube stops I’ve visited in a year: 9 (Highgate, Bank, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly, Leicester Square, morphed out
Embankment, Charing Cross, St Pauls, Hampstead) of a character
Number of slats in the blinds of my office: 94 development
Size of my office: 8 square feet piece for her
Number of clients: 15 second novel.
Percentage of clients that like me: Unknown She is currently
Chances that my boss will say it is a little early to be thinking of promotion at my next appraisal: 100 % trying to find
Probability that I’m good at my job 50:50 an agent for her
Percentage of graduates that would kill for my job: >75% debut novel.
Number of Americanos with an extra shot consumed on an average weekday: six
Probability that Calum loves his job: 100%
The number of times that Calum and I have eaten dinner together in the last month: 3
The number of times Calum and I have had sex in the last month: 1
Percentage of sex that was good sex in the last month: 100%
Percentage of times that Calum has unloaded the dishwasher: 5%
Percentage decline in sex life over 5 years: 15%, year on year
Number of nights shifts Calum has done this week: 5
Proportion of days when Calum’s on shift that I’ve drank a bottle of wine: 100%
Number of times I’ve hoovered the flat this week: four
Size of this flat: 1200 sq. foot
Books on the bookshelf: 231
Proportion of books unread: 15% (All Calum’s)
Distance from the flat to Highgate cemetery: <1 mile
Size of Highgate Cemetery: 37 acres
Number of graves in Highgate cemetery: >53,000
Number of times I’ve walked around Highgate cemetery: 6
Moles on my face: 1
Bones in my body: 206
Percentage of bones in Freddie’s body broken: 10%
Cars that mowed Freddie down: one
Chances of Freddie defying gravity: Zero
Rab – ½ Rgab = Tab
Number of brothers: One zero
Number of times I’ve visited Freddie’s grave: zero

RUNNERS-UP AND SHORTLISTED
Fourth place in the Grand Flash Prize, winning a WM Courses critique, was JANE BROUGHTON, Urmston, Manchester.
Fifth place, a year’s subscription to WM, was JEAN COOPER MORAN, Cinderford, Gloucestershire.
Also shortlisted were: RACHAEL CHARMLEY, Harleston, Norfolk; RUTH EDWARDSON, Rochford, Essex; TRACY FELLS,
Ashington, West Sussex; TRACY GEDDES, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire; BARBARA HENDERSON, Berwick-upon-Tweed,
Northumberland; SHARON KEMP, Surbiton, Surrey; EMMA LORD, Swindon, Wiltshire; HELENE DU MAURI, Dawlish, South
Devon; ANGELA G PICKERING, Ely, Cambridgeshire; EMILY RUMSEY, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

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COMPETITION GUIDE 2022

Moth Short Story Prize time author http://comstockreview.org/ Hawk Mountain Short
Prizes: £10,000, runners-up £1,000 annual-contest/ Story Collection Award
Short stories up to 5,000 words Free entry
on any theme Closing date: 1 July Prism Creative Non- Unpublished short story
Prizes: First €3,000; second, www.deborahrogersfoundation.org Fiction Competition collections
writing retreat at Circle of Misse Prizes: $1,000 and publication
in France and €250; third, €1,000 York Poetry Prize Creative non-fiction, max 6,000 Entry fee: $20
Entry fee: €15 words Closing date: 30 July, TBC
Closing date: 30 June Poems up to 40 lines Prizes: Can$1,500, $600, $400 https://hiddenriverarts.
www.themothmagazine.com Prizes: £600, £150, £75, £50. Entry fee: $45 international wordpress.com
£40; £100 for best international Closing date: 15 July
Queen Mary Wasafiri entrant; York postcode prize £50 http://prismmagazine.ca/contests/ AAWP Australian Short
New Writing Prize Entry fee: £7.50, £12 for 2, £15 Story Festival (ASSF)
for 3 Francine Ringwold Short Story Prize
Poetry (up to five poems), Closing date: 4 July, TBC
fiction and life writing up to www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk/ Fiction up to 5,000 words or up Short stories, up to 3,000 words,
3,000 words to 5 pages of poetry by writers across Australasia
Prizes: £1,000 in each category HG Wells Short Story Prizes: $500 in both categories, Prizes: Conference, travel and
plus publication in Wasafiri Competition plus publication accommodation for the Australian
Entry fee: £10 for one category, Entry fee: $12 Short Story Festival
£16 for two categories Short stories, 1,500-5,000 Closing date: 15 July, TBC Entry fee: Aus$20
Closing date: 30 June words, on the theme of ‘switch’ https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/ Closing date: 31 July
www.wasafiri.org Prizes: £1,000 prize for writers awards.html www.aawp.org.au/news/
under 21, over 21s £500 opportunities/
Wells Festival of Entry fee: £10, £5 under 21 Boardman Tasker Award
Literature Closing date: 11 July for Mountain Literature AAWP Slow Canoe
http://hgwellscompetition.com Creative Non-Fiction Prize
Open Poetry up to 35 lines Book-length literature (fiction,
Prizes £1,000, £500, £250, £100 NYC Midnight Flash non-fiction, drama, poetry) Unpublished, narrative-driven
Short Story 1,000-2,000 words Fiction Challenge concerned with the mountain non-fiction, to emerging writers
Prizes £750, £300, £200, £100 environment from Australasia
Book for Children, first 2 Flash fiction tournament in Prizes: £3,000 Prizes: Aus$500 and a fully
chapters or 20 pages three heats spanning four Free entry subsidised visit to the Australasian
Prizes £750, £300, £200, £100 months Closing date: 15 July, TBC Association of Writing Programs
Young Poets up to 35 lines Prizes: $5,000, $1,750, $1,000, www.boardmantasker.com (AAWP) conference
Prizes £150, £75, £50 $500, 5x$125, plus software and Entry fee: Aus$20
Entry fee: £6 each category, £3 conversion services Petrichor Prize Closing date: 31 July
for young poets Entry fee: $45-$55 www.aawp.org.au/news/
Closing date: 30 June Closing date: register by 11 July Unpublished fiction opportunities/
www.wellsfestivalofliterature. www.nycmidnight.com/ manuscripts, 120-350 pages
org.uk Competitions/SSC/Challenge. Prizes: $1,000 and publication AAWP/UWRF
htm Entry fee: $25 Translators’ Prize
JULY Closing date: 15 July
McLellan Poetry Prize https://regalhousepublishing.com Translations of prose, up to
Canadian Stories 3,000 words, or poems, up to 30
Magazine Contest Poems up to 80 lines Ledbury Poetry Festival lines, into English
Prizes: £1,500, £300, £150, Poetry Competition Prizes: A fully subsidised visit
Prose up to 3,000 words; up to 6x£25 to the Australasian Association
3 poems – worldwide writers Entry fee: £6, £5 additional Poetry up to 40 lines of Writing Programs (AAWP)
welcome but entries must Closing date: 11 July, TBC Prizes: £1,000 and a week at Ty conference, including
pertain to Canada www.arrantheatreandarts.co.uk Newydd accommodation and air fares
Prizes: 6xCan$350, 2x$175, 2x$50 Entry fee: £5.75, £3.50 each Entry fee: Aus$20
Entry fee: $20 Doris Gooderson Short additional Closing date: 31 July
Closing date: 1 July Story Competition Closing date: 18 July, TBC www.aawp.org.au/news/
www.canadianstories.net www.poetry-festival.co.uk opportunities/
Short stories up to 1,200 words
Fitzcarraldo Editions on an open theme. Lazuli Literary Group Earlyworks Press Poetry
Novel Prize Prizes: £200, £100, £50, winning Writing Contest Competition
entries may be published in the
Unpublished novels over 30,000 annual Wrekin Writers anthology Your best writing of any kind Poems, up to 40 lines
words Entry fee: £5 Prizes: $100 Prizes: £100; cash and books
Prizes: $10,000, publication by Closing date: 12 July Entry fee: $10 Entry fee: £5, £20 for up to 6
Fitzcarraldo Editions https://wrekinwriters.wordpress. Closing date: 22 July, TBC Closing date: 31 July, TBC
Free entry com/doris-gooderson-short- www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/ www.earlyworkspress.co.uk
Closing date: 1 July story-competition/ contests.html
https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com Foyle Young Poets
Comstock Review Marystina Santiestevan
Deborah Rogers Annual Contest First Book Prize Poetry from writers aged 11-17
Foundation Writers Prizes: Publication, mentoring,
Award Poems up to 40 lines Poetry collections, 48-90 pages Arvon writing residency
Prizes: $1,000, $250, $100 Prizes: $1,000 and publication Free entry
Between 20,000 and 25,000 Entry fee: $5 Entry fee: $25 Closing date: 31 July, TBC
words of a prose WIP by a first- Closing date: 15 July Closing date: 31 July www.foyleyoungpoets.org
www.conduit.org

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Exeter Literary Festival Red Hen Press Novella HISSAC Annual Open Winchester Poetry Prize
Short Story Short Story
Novellas, 15,000-30,000 words Poems up to 40 lines
Short stories, any theme except Prizes: $1,000 and publication Short stories up to 2,000 words, Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250, £100
children’s, up to 750 words Entry fee: $25 flash fiction up to 500 words. for a Hampshire-based poet
Prizes: £200, £100, £50 Closing date: 31 July No connection to Scotland is Entry fee: £5, £4 each extra
Entry fee: £5, £9 for two https://redhen.org/ needed by theme or entrant. Closing date: 31 July
Closing date: 31 July Prizes: £200, £75 and £50 in www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org
www.exelitfest.com British Czech & Slovak both categories
Association Entry fee: £5, £12 for 3, £18 for 5 AUGUST
Ilkley Literature Festival Closing date: 31 July
Short Story and Short stories and non-fiction, up www.hissac.co.uk Constance Rooke
Walter Swan Poetry to 2,000 words, exploring the Creative Non-Fiction
Competitions links between Britain and the Lune Spark Young Award
Czech/Slovak Republics at any Writers’ Short Story
Short stories, 1,000-2,000 time. Usually with a suggested Creative non-fiction, 2,000-
words; poems up to 30 lines theme, TBC Short stories, up to 1,500 words, 3,000 words
Prizes: £200 for short stories, Prizes: £400, £150, publication by writers aged 10-13 or 13-16 Prizes: Can$1,000
£200, £100, £75 for adult poems, Free entry Prizes: $500, $250, $100; Book Entry fee: $45 international
£100, £75, £50 for 18-25s poems Closing date: 31 July Cover Prize, $100 Closing date: 1 August
Entry fee: £5 www.bcsa.co.uk Entry fee: $15 www.malahatreview.ca/contests/
Closing date: 31 July, TBC Closing date: 31 July contests_info.html
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Hastings Literary www.lunespark.com
Festival Writing Sydney Hammond
Writers Bureau Poetry Competition Seán Ó’Faoláin Short Memorial Short Story
Story Competition Competition
Poetry up to 40 lines Short stories, up to 2,500 words;
Prizes: £200 plus Writers short memoirs, up to 4,000 Short stories up to 3,000 words Short stories, up to 1,000 words,
Bureau course; £100, £50 and words or 60-line poems; poems Prizes: €2,000, week-long residency on the theme ‘courage’
membership of the Association of up to 40 lines at Aman Cara Writers’ and Artists’ Prizes: Aus$250; anthology
Freelance Writers Prizes: £250, £50 each category Retreat, €500, 4 x €250 publication
Entry fee: £5 Entry fee: £7.50, £10 for two Entry fee: E18 Entry fee: Aus$12
Closing date: 31 July Closing date: 31 July Closing date: 31 July Closing date: 1 August
www.wbcompetition.com www.HastingsLitFest.org www.munsterlit.ie https://hawkeyebooks.com.au

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Scribble Annual Article Over The Edge New Entry fee: £5 Troubadour International
Competition Writer of The Year Closing date: 20 August, TBC Poetry Prize
www.rslit.org
Articles, up to 1,500 words on a Poetry (three poems of up to 40 Poems, up to 45 lines
theme TBC lines or one of 100 lines); short Buzzwords Open Poetry Prizes: £2,000, £1,000, £500,
Prizes: £50, £25, £15, publication stories, up to 3,000 words Competition plus smaller prizes
Entry fee: £3 Prizes: €1,000 in cash prizes Entry fee: £5, €6, $7 per poem
Closing date: 1 August (€300 each for wining poet and Poems up to 70 lines Closing date: 28 August, all
www.parkpublications.co.uk short story writer, €400 for the Prizes: £600, £300, 5 x £50, details TBC
overall winner), publication for Gloucestershire Prize of £200 www.coffeehousepoetry.org
Broadside Poetry Prize winning poet, plus readings at Entry fee: £4, £10 for three
Over the Edge postal/£4.35, £11 for three online Caterpillar Story for
Two poems, 10-30 lines each Entry fee: €10, €7.50 for each of Closing date: 22 August Children Prize
Prizes: $500 multiple entries www.buzzwordspoetry.blogspot.
Entry fee: $12 Closing date: 7 August, TBC co.uk Short stories up to 2,000 words
Closing date: 1 August www.overtheedgeliteraryevents. for children aged 7-11
www.ruminatemagazine.com blogspot.com Searchlight Writing for Prizes: €1,000
Children Award Entry fee: €12
TS Eliot Prize Room Poetry Contest Closing date: 30 August, TBC
Best Picture Book (text only) www.thecaterpillarmagazine.com
First poetry collections, Up to 3 poems, 150 lines total and Best Novel Opening for
published in the UK this year Prizes: $500, $250, $50; publication Children or Young Adults Thomas Paine Award
Prizes: £25,000, 10x£1,500 Entry fee: $42 international Prizes: £1,000, £500, agent/
Free entry Closing date: 15 August publisher pitch book and optional Unpublished book-length
Closing date: 2 August, TBC https://roommagazine.com publication political or social activist writing
http://tseliot.com Entry fee: £9, £14 Prizes: $1,000 and publication
New Voices Award Closing date: 22 August Entry fee: $22
Costa Short Story Award www.searchlightawards.co.uk/ Closing date: 30 August, TBC
Children’s picture book https://hiddenriverarts.
Short stories, up to 4,000 words manuscripts by writers of colour Robert Graves Prize wordpress.com
Prizes: £3,500, £1,000, £500 and indigenous writers, resident
Free entry in the US Open competition for poems up Earlyworks Press Flash
Closing date: 5 August, TBC Prizes: $2,000, plus standard to 40 lines Fiction
www.costabookawards.com publishing contract; $1,000 Prizes: Winners will be published
Free entry in POEM magazine Flash fiction, up to 100 words
Retreat West Novel Prize Closing date: 15 August, TBC Entry fee: £5, £3 each additional Prizes: £100; cash and books
www.leeandlow.com/writers- Closing date: 23 August, TBC Entry fee: £5, £20 for up to 6
Unpublished novels illustrators/new-voices-award www.wimbledonbookfest. Closing date: 30 August
Prizes: publishing contract and org/Competitions/ www.earlyworkspress.co.uk
£500 advance, critique and report Iowa Prize for literary RobertGravesPrize.aspx
Entry fee: £15 non-fiction Blue Mesa Review
Closing date: 10 August, TBC Sustainable Societies: Summer Competition
www.retreatwest.co.uk Book length literary non-fiction, TV/Radio series
40,000-90,000 words Fiction and non-fiction, up to
Kanturk Arts Festival Prizes: Publication under a Series scripts touching on ideas 6,000 words; up to 3 poems
Adult Flash Fiction standard contract of sustainable living Prizes: $500 in each category
Competition Entry fee: $10 Prizes: £500, £200, £100, 3 x £50 Entry fee: $12
Closing date: 15 August Free entry Closing date: 31 August
Flash fiction up to 500 words www.uipress.uiowa.edu/authors/ Closing date: 26 August http://bmr.unm.edu/contest/
Prizes: €200, €100, €75 iowa-nonfiction.htm www.greenstories.org.uk
Entry fee: free UNO Press Publishing
Closing date: 11 August, TBC Omnidawn Open New Guard Contests Lab Prize
https://kanturkarts.ie/adult-
flash-fiction-competition-2020/ Poetry collections, 40-120 pages Fiction, up to 5,000 words, and Full-length works of fiction
Prizes: $3,000 and publication up to three poems, total 150 Prizes: $10,000 and publication
Antigonish Review Entry fee: $27 lines max Entry fee: $28
Closing date: 16 August Prizes: $1,500 Closing date: 31 August
Single or multiple poems, max http://omnidawn.com Entry fee: $22 http://unopress.org/lab.aspx
150 lines total; short stories, Closing date: 27 August, TBC
max 300 words Globe Soup Poetry www.newguardreview.com/tng- Gemini Magazine Flash
Prizes: Can$500, $300 and $100, contests/ Fiction Contest
and publication Poems, up to 50 lines
Entry fee: $30 Prizes: £1,000 and publication Science Fiction Poetry Short stories, up to 1,000 words
Closing date: 15 August, TBC Entry fee: £8 Prizes: $1,000, $100, 4x$25, and
www.antigonishreview.com Closing date: 17 August Poems in three categories, dwarf publication
www.globesoup.net/ (1-10 lines, or up to 100 words); Entry fee: $6
1/2 K Prize competitions short (11-49 lines, or up to 100 Closing date: 31 August, TBC
words); long (50+ lines or 500+ www.gemini-magazine.com
Prose, under 500 words, in any VS Pritchett Memorial words)
genre Prizes: $100, $50, $25 Golden Hare Award
Prizes: $1,000 and publication Unpublished short stories Entry fee: $2
Entry fee: $20 between 2,000 and 4,000 words Closing date: 31 August Short stories up to 250 words by
Closing date: 15 August Prizes: £1,000 plus publication in http://sfpoetry.com/contests.html writers in Scotland
https://indianareview.org/prizes RSL Review and Prospect online Prizes: £300
Entry fee: £7

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Closing date: 31 August Entry fee: £6 Exeter Story Prize Open to writers of all
www.storyawards.org Closing date: 31 August, TBC nationalities writing in English.
www.creativewritingmatters.co.uk Short stories on any theme, up
Gabo Prize for Literature to 5,000 words Hysteria 9 published December 2022.
in Translation Impress Prize for New Prizes: £500, £150, £100
Writers Entry fee: £12 Categories:
For translations of poetry or Closing date: 31 August Flash Fiction – up to 250 words
prose; biannual Full-length debuts from www.creativewritingmatters.co.uk
Prizes: $200 plus publication unpublished fiction and non- Poetry – up to 12 lines
Free entry fiction writers. Submit book Fool for Poetry Short Story – up to 1,000 words
Closing date: 31 August, 28 Feb proposal and sample chapter International Chapbook
https://lunchticket.org/ totalling no more than 6,000 Competition Prizes per category:
words Winners - £300 plus publication
Diana Woods Memorial Prizes: Publication, £500 advance Short collection of poetry
Award in Creative Non- Entry fee: £25 between 16 and 24 pages Runners up – publication
fiction Closing date: 31 August Prizes: €1,000, €500, chapbook Entry fee - £3
www.impress-books.co.uk publication plus 25 copies Enter at
Essays, up to 5,000 words; Entry fee: €25
Prizes: $250 plus publication Free NAWG Open Closing date: 31 August https://lindaph.co.uk/hysteria-
entry Competitions www.munsterlit.ie writing-competition/
Closing date: 31 August, 28 Feb
https://lunchticket.org Poems up to 40 lines; stories Edinburgh International Opens - 1st April
500-2,000 words Flash Fiction Comp Closing date - 31st August
Write your best poem 30 lines Prizes: £250, £150, £50,
or fewer or short story 5 pages publication in each category Stories up to 250 words Diana Brebner Prize
max, for a chance to win cash Entry fee: £5 each, £10 for 3 poems Prizes: £1,000, £300, £150; £300
Closing date: 31 August for a Scottish writer Poem, up to 30 lines, by Canada’s
prizes totaling $1275.00! www.nawg.co.uk Entry fee: £7 National Capital Region residents
Closing date: 31 August Prizes: Can$500
Postmark deadline: The Sunday Times www.storyawards.org Entry fee: $25
August 31, 2022. Charlotte Aitken Young Closing date: 3 September, TBC
Enter Now! Writer of the Year Award SEPTEMBER http://arcpoetry.ca

www.dreamquestone.com Full-length published or self- KSP Writers Centre Wellcome Book Prize
published fiction, non-fiction or Short Fiction Comp
Haunted Waters Press poetry by an author under 35 The best published literature
Awards Prizes: £10,000 Short stories, up to 2,500 words, (fiction or non-fiction) with a
Free entry by Australian residents or citizens medical or biomedical theme
Fiction, max 7,500 words; up to Closing date: 31 August Prizes: Aus$300, $150; $100, $50 Prizes: £30,000
3 poems; up to 3 pieces of flash, www.societyofauthors.org for youths Free entry
up to 500 words Entry fee: TBC Closing date: 9 September, TBC
Prizes: $250 and publication in Fischer Prize Closing date: 1 September, TBC www.wellcomebookprize.org
each category www.kspwriterscentre.com
Entry fee: $10 Poems, no longer than three Cinnamon Pencil
Closing date: 31 August pages, by US poets Moment Magazine Mentoring Competition
www.hauntedwaterspress.com Prizes: $1,000 plus $500 travel Karma Foundation
to awards ceremony; 5x$200 plus Short Fiction Contest 10 poems, two short stories or
Scarlet Stiletto Awards $100; $500 for best entry from a the first 10,000 words of a novel
Colorado poet Short stories, max 5,000 words, Prizes: a place on Cinnamon
Crime and mystery short stories, Entry fee: $10 with Jewish themes Pencil mentoring scheme
up to 5,000 words, by Australian Closing date: 31 August Prizes: $1,000 Entry fee: £12
women www.tellurideinstitute.org Entry fee: $25 Closing date: 13 September
Prizes: Aus$9,760 prize fund Closing date: 1 September www.cinnamonpress.com
Entry fee: $25 St Lawrence Book https://momentmag.com/contests/
Closing date: 31 August Award New Voices Competition
www.sistersincrime.org.au/the- Puerto Del Sol Comps
scarlet-stiletto-awards/ Unpublished first collections of First page of a novel and a one-
poems or short stories Fiction and non-fiction, max 25 page synopsis by a first-time
Aesthetica Creative Prizes: $1,000 and publication pages; up to 3 poems writer
Writing Entry fee: $27 Prizes: $500 and publication in Prizes: Start Up mentoring
Closing date: 31 August each category package worth £550
Short stories up to 2,000 words, www.blacklawrence.com Entry fee: $9 Entry fee: £10
poetry up to 40 lines. Any Closing date: 1 September Closing date: 14 September
theme, form or style Hysteria Writing Comp www.puertodelsol.org/submit www.adventuresinfiction.co.uk
Prizes: £2,500 for winners in
each category, publication, Short stories up to 1,000 words, Southampton Review Toni Beauchamp Prize
subscriptions, books and poetry up to 12 lines, flash Short Fiction Prize in Critical Art Writing
memberships. fiction 250 words
Entry fee: poems £12, fiction £18 Prizes: £300 in each category, Short stories, up to 350 words Art writing, up to 1,500 words
Closing date: 31 August anthology publication Prizes: $500, $300, $200 Prizes: $3,000, 2x$1,000
www.aestheticamagazine.com/ Entry fee: £3 Entry fee: $5 Closing date: 15 September, TBC
creative-writing-award Closing date: 31 August Closing date: 1 September http://gulfcoastmag.org
www.lindaph.me www.thesouthamptonreview.
Exeter Flash Competition com/short-short-fiction-contest The Hal Prize

Flash fiction up to 750 words Fiction and non-fiction, up to
Prizes: £200, £100, £50 2,000 words; poems, no more
than a page, by US writers
Prizes: $250, $100, $50; publication

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Entry fee: prose $10, poems $5 words; flash, 300 words; short Stringybark Times Past 150 pages by authors who have
Closing date: 15 September screenplays up to thirty pages Award not had a book published
http://thehalprize.com and feature screenplay Prizes: Publication under a
Prizes: £100 for both categories Short stories, up to 1,500 words standard contract
Gulf Coast Translation Entry fee: Starts from £4 Prizes: $350, $250, $125 Free entry
Closing date: 15 September Entry fee: Aus$14 Closing date: 30 September
Literature in translation www.londonindependent Closing date: 27 September, TBC www.uipress.uiowa.edu/authors/
Prizes: $1,000; $250 storyprize.co.uk www.stringybarkstories.net iowa-short-fiction.htm
Closing date: 15 September, TBC
www.gulfcoastmag.org Michael Marks Awards Lascaux Prize for Biographers’ Club Tony
creative non-fiction Lothian Prize
Gingko Ecopoetry Prize For poetry pamphlets up to 36
pages, and for the publishers Creative non-fiction, up to An uncommissioned biography
Poems up to 54 lines on of poetry pamphlets; now also 10,000 words by a first-time biographer.
ecological themes Greek Bicentennial Poetry Prize Prizes: $1,000 and publication Submit a proposal of no more
Prizes: £5,000, £2,000, £1,000 for pamphlets on specific themes Entry fee: $15 than 20 pages, including
Entry fee: £7, £4 for each Prizes: £5,000 for each award; Closing date: 30 September synopsis, sample chapter (both
subsequent entry £10,000 and £5,000 for the Greek http://lascauxreview.com/ double-spaced), CV, sources and
Closing date: 15 September, TBC Bicentennial Prize a note on the market for the
https://ginkgoprize.com Free entry Norwich Writers’ book. Mandatory entry form
Closing date: 17 September Circle Olga Sinclair available on the website.
Kore Press Institute https://michaelmarksawards.org Open Short Story Prizes: £2,000
Competition Entry fee: £15
Poetry collection manuscripts, Manchester Fiction Prize Closing date: 30 September
48-100 pages Short stories up to 2,000 words, www.biographersclub.co.uk
Prizes: $1,500 and publication Short stories, up to 2,500 words open theme this year
Entry fee: $28 Prizes: £10,000 Prizes: £500, £250 and £100 César Egido Serrano
Closing date: 15 September, TBC Entry fee: £17.50 Entry fee: £9, £7 each subsequent Foundation Flash
https://korepress.org/ Closing date: 18 September, TBC Closing date: 30 September Fiction Contest
www2.mmu.ac.uk/ http://norwichwriters.
Surrey International writingcompetition/ wordpress.com Flash fiction, no more than
Writers’ Conference 100 words, in English, Spanish,
Manchester Poetry Prize Mudfish Poetry Prize Arabic or Hebrew
Short stories, 2,500-5,000 words Prizes: $20,000, $2,000 each
Prizes: Can$1,000, $150 Portfolio of poetry (3-5, Up to three poems, any length for the best entry in each of the
Entry fee: $19 maximum 120 lines) Prizes: $1,200 remaining three languages
Closing date: 15 September, TBC Prizes: £10,000 Entry fee: £17.50 Entry fee: $20, $3 each additional Free entry
www.siwc.ca/writing-contest/ Closing date: 18 September, TBC Closing date: 30 September, TBC Closing date: 30 September
www2.mmu.ac.uk/ www.mudfish.org www.fundacioncesa
Transitions Abroad writingcompetition/ regidoserrano.com/
Writing Contest Darling Axe First Page
Val Wood Prize Challenge Hammond House
Essays or guides, 1,200-3,000 Literary Prize
words on living, moving or Short stories on a theme TBC, First page of a novel
working abroad up to 1,500 words Prizes: Can$700, $200, $100 Short stories, 1,000-5,000
Prizes: $500, $150, $100; $50 for Prizes: £100, £50, 2x£25, publication Entry fee: $5 words, poems up to 40 lines
all finalists Free entry Closing date: 30 September and scripts, up to 10 pages, on a
Free entry Closing date: 21 September, TBC https://darlingaxe.com/ theme TBC
Closing date: 15 September www.valeriewood.co.uk Prizes: Short stories £500, £100,
www.transitionsabroad.com/ Dzanc Prizes £50; poems £100, £30, £20;
information/writers/expatriate_ Savage Writing Contest scripts, £100
writing_contest.shtml Novels (40,000+ words) Entry fee: £10
Write a specfic story within 48 and book-length short story Closing date: 30 September
Frontier Poetry Open hours collections www.hammondhouse
Prizes: $20, $15, $10 Amazon Prizes: $5,000 for novels, $2,500 publishing.com
Up to 3 poems, any length gift cards for ss collections
Prizes: $5,000 and publication Free entry Entry fee: $25 World Around Us
Entry fee: $20 Closing date: 25 September Closing date: 30 September Chapbook Anthology
Closing date: 15 September http://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/ https://dzancbooks.submittable. Contest
www.frontierpoetry.com dead-of-winter/ com/
Poems, no longer than 36 lines
Moth NatureWriting Prize Aryamati Poetry Prize Bracken Bower Prize Prizes: Can$100, $75, $50,
$25x2
Poetry, fiction or non- Poems up to 40 lines, promoting Best proposal for a business Entry fee: $5, 3 for $10
fiction exploring the writer’s peace and social change book on the challenges and Closing date: 30 September
relationship with the natural world Prizes: A traditional pamphlet opportunities for growth from a www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca
Prizes: €1,000 and a week at The publication contact, 250 copies writer under 35
Moth Retreat in rural Ireland of your poem printed on special Prizes: £15,000 The Short Story
Entry fee: €15 postcards, £100 worth of books, Free entry Competition
Closing date: 15 September plus critiques Closing date: 30 September
www.themothmagazine.com Entry fee: £5, £3 concessions www.ft.com/brackenbower Short stories between 1,000 and
Closing date: 25 September 5,000 words. No novel extracts,
London Independent www.flyonthewallpoetry.co.uk Iowa Short Fiction Award sci-fi, fantasty. poetry or stories
Story Prize
Short story collections of at least
Short stories, max 3,000

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for children Tennessee Williams Boulevard Emerging Closing date: 1 October
Prizes: £500, £100 New Orleans Literary Writers Competition www.voicesisrael.com
Entry fee: £8 Festival
Closing date: 30 September, TBC Nonfiction up to 8,000 words, Zoetrope All-Story
www.theshortstory.net Plays (one-act, entry fee $25, by a writer who has not had a Short Fiction
closing date 1/10, prize $1,500), book published Competition
Acheven Book Prize poetry (2-4, max 400 words Prizes: $1,000
total, $15, 15/10, $1,000), Entry fee: $16 Short stories, 1,000-5,000 words
YA fiction, 120-350 pages fiction (up to 7,000 words, $25, Closing date: 1 October Prizes: $1,000, $500, $250 and
Prizes: $750 and publication 1/10, $1,500) and flash (up to https://boulevardmagazine.org/ publication
Entry fee: $25 500 words, $10, 15/10, $500) nonfiction-contest/ Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 30 September Prizes: all category prizes include Closing date: 1 October, /
https://regalhousepublishing.com VIP festival passes Academy of American www.all-story.com/contests/
Entry fee: $10-$25 Poets First Book Award
Crowvus Christmas Closing date: 1 October Missouri Review Jeffrey
Ghost Story http://tennesseewilliams.net/ Book-length poetry E Smith Editor’s Prize
Competition contests/ manuscripts, 48 pages or more,
by US residents, formerly known Fiction and non-fiction, up to
Spooky stories, up to 4,000 Patricia Dobler Poetry as the Walt Whitman Award 8,500 words, any number of
words, by adults or children Award Prizes: $5,000 plus publication poems, up to 10 pages
Prizes: £100, £75, £50; £50 gift Entry fee: $35 Prizes: $5,000 in each category
card for best under-16 entry Up to 2 poems, each up to 75 Closing date: 1 October Entry fee: $25
Entry fee: £3, £5 for two; free for lines, by US women aged over 40 https://poets.org/academy- Closing date: 1 October
under-16s Prizes: $1,000 and publication american-poets/prizes/first- www.missourireview.com/
Closing date: 30 September, TBC Entry fee: $20 book-award contests/
www.crowvus.com/competition Closing date: 1 October
www.carlow.edu/Dobler_ Psychopomp Short Imison Award
Ovacome Writing Poetry_Award.aspx Fiction Award
Competition For original radio plays by
Mighty River Short Short stories, 6,000 words max, writers new to radio
Short stories, up to 1,500 words, Story Contest pushing the boundaries of Prizes: £3,000
theme ‘perspective’ genre/form Free entry
Prizes: £250, £50 Waterstones Stories, max 30 pages Prizes: $500 and publication Closing date: 2 October
voucher Prizes: $1,000 and publication Entry fee: $10 www.societyofauthors.org/
Entry fee: £5 Entry fee: $20 Closing date: 1 October, due to imison-award
Closing date: 30 September Closing date: 1 October, TBC reopen soon, check for any details
www.ovacome.org.uk www.semopress.com/events/ https://psychopompmag.com/ Tinniswood Award

Tom Howard/Margaret Wilda Hearne Flash Sexton Prize for Poetry Original radio drama scripts
Reid Poetry Contest Fiction Contest first broadcast or made available
Collections, 48-120 pages, by online this year
Poems in two styles: open and Flash fiction up to 500 words US poets Prizes: £3,000
traditionally rhymed. Up to 250 Prizes: $500 and publication Prizes: $2,000 and publication Free entry
lines. Entry fee: $15 Entry fee: $35 Closing date: 2 October
Prizes: $3,000 10x$100 in each Closing date: 1 October, TBC Closing date: 1 October www.societyofauthors.org/
category www.semopress.com/events/ https://store.eyewearpublishing. tinniswood-award
Entry fee: $15 com
Closing date: 30 September Perito Prize Peter Porter Poetry Prize
www.winningwriters.com/ Joan Alice Poetry Prize
tompoetry Short stories, 1,000-2,000 Poems up to 70 lines
words, on the specific themes Poetry collections, 48-120 pages Prizes: Aus$6,000, 4x$1,000
OCTOBER of inclusion, access, diversity, Prizes: $2,000 and publication Entry fee: $25
inclusive design and inclusive Entry fee: $25 Closing date: 4 October
Bath Flash Fiction environments; now also with a Closing date: 1 October www.australianbookreview.com.au
Award schools prize, details TBC https://store.eyewearpublishing.
Prizes: £500 and publication com/ London Short Story
Thrice-yearly competition for Free entry
flash fiction up to 300 words Closing date: 1 October Mary C Mohr Awards Short stories up to 5,000 words
Prizes: £1,000, £300, £100, 2x£30 www.weareperito.com/perito- by London writers
Entry fee: £9 prize Short fiction and creative non- Prizes: £1,000, 2x£250
Closing date: 1 October fiction, up to 30 pages, poetry, Entry fee: £10
http://bathflashfictionaward.com American Literary up to 10 pages Closing date: 7 October, TBC
Review Awards Prizes: $2,000 and publication in www.spreadtheword.org.uk
Prism Pacific Spirit each category
Poetry Prize Short stories, up to 8,000 words, Entry fee: $20 Calvino Prize
creative non-fiction, up to Closing date: 1 October
Up to three poems, max 100 4,000, and poems, up to 3 www.usi.edu/sir Fiction, up to 25 pages, in the
lines each Prizes: $1,000 and publication in style of Italo Calvino
Prizes: Can$1,500, $600, $400 each category Voices Israel Reuben Prizes: $2,000 and publication,
Entry fee: $45 international Entry fee: $15 Rose $300
Closing date: 1 October Closing date: 1 October Entry fee: $25
http://prismmagazine.ca/ https://americanliteraryreview. Poems, up to 41 lines Closing date: 15 October
contests/ com/contest/ Prizes: $500, $150, $50 http://louisville.edu/english/
Entry fee: $6 creative-writing/

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Galley Beggar Press Entry fee: $20 copies of the pamphlet but nothing yet confirmed. Keep
Short Story Prize Closing date: 15 October Entry fee: £12 checking website: http://atlantis-
https://shortstorycompetition.com/ Closing date: 17 October, TBC shortstorycontest.com
Short stories up to 3,000 words prolebooks.co.uk
Prizes: £2,000, £200 for Poets Out Loud Prize Comstock Review
shortlisted authors, £50 book Eyelands Book Awards Chapbook Contest
vouchers for longlisted, plus GBP Poetry collections
subscription, possibly to be raised Prizes: 2x$1,000 and publication Published and unpublished Poetry collections, 25-34 pages
this year Entry fee: $28 books Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: £10 Closing date: 15 October, TBC Prizes: Published books, a five-day Entry fee: $30
Closing date: 10 October www.fordham.edu/pol holiday in Athens; unpublished Closing date: 31 October
http://galleybeggar.co.uk books, publication from Strange http://comstockreview.org
Writers Digest Personal Days Books
Beverly Prize for Essay Award Entry fee: $30 Elixir Press Poetry Award
Literature Closing date: 20 October
Short stories, up to 4,000 words www.eyelands.gr/en/ Poetry collections, over 48 pages
Book-length manuscripts of in the genres mystery/crime, Prizes: $2,000 and publication
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, horror, romance, SF/fantasy, Carter V Cooper Short Entry fee: $30
drama, memoir, or criticism. thriller/suspense or YA Fiction Competition Closing date: 31 October
Prizes: £1,000 and publication Prizes: $2,500, 6x$500; plus http://elixirpress.com
Entry fee: £25 vouchers, consultations, publication Short fiction, up to 10,000 words
Closing date: 14 October Entry fee: $30 Prizes: Can$10,000, $5,000 Fiction Factory Short
https://store.eyewearpublishing. Closing date: 15 October Entry fee: $30 Story
com www.writersdigest.com/writers- Closing date: 21 October, TBC
digest-competitions/poetry- www.exileeditions.com Short stories up to 3,000 words
Jake Adam York Prize awards Prizes: £300, £100 and £50
Gwendolyn MacEwen Entry fee: £6
Poetry collections, over 48 pages Alice James Award Poetry Competition Closing date: 31 October, TBC
Prizes: $2,000 and publication http://fiction-factory.biz
Entry fee: $25 Unpublished poetry collections A suite of poems, up to 24 pages
Closing date: 15 October by US poets Prizes: Can$1,500, $1,000, $500 Omnidawn Fabulist
http://copper-nickel.org/ Prizes: $2,000, publication, plus best poem by a Canadian Fiction Chapbook
$1,000 to speak at Maine Uni Entry fee: $25
Raven Short Story Entry fee: $30 Closing date: 21 October, TBC Single fantastical or magic realist
Closing date: 15 October www.exileeditions.com stories, or collections, totalling
Fiction, 250-2,500 words www.alicejamesbooks.org 7,500-17,500 words
Prizes: Can$300 Creative Mind Horwich Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $20 VanderMey Nonfiction Entry fee: $18
Closing date: 15 October Short stories, up to 1,500 words Closing date: 31 October
http://pulpliterature.com/ Non-fiction, up to 5,500 words or poems up to 40 lines, on the http://omnidawn.com
contests/ Prizes: $1,500, $300 theme ‘travel’
Entry fee: $20 Prizes: £50, £30 and £20 in each Orwell Prize
Gerald Cable Book Closing date: 15 October category
Award www.ruminatemagazine.com Entry fee: £3, £5 for three Political writing in three
Closing date: 24 October categories: journalism, political
Poetry collections, over 48 Sequestrum New www.creative-mind.co.uk books and exposing Britain’s
pages, by unpublished poets Writers Awards social evils
Prizes: $1,000 and publication Dinesh Allirajah Prize Prizes: £3,000 in each category
Entry fee: $25 Fiction and non-fiction, up to Closing date: 31 October
Closing date: 15 October, TBC 12,000 words; poems, up to 3, Short fiction, 2,000-6,000 words http://theorwellprize.co.uk
http://silverfishreviewpress.com max 50 lines each on a theme TBC
Prizes: $400, $100, $25, both Prizes: £500 and publication Tucson Festival Literary
Steve Kowit Poetry Prize categories Free entry Awards
Entry fee: $15 Closing date: 29 October
Poems, any length Closing date: 15 October http://commapress.co.uk/ For fiction and non-fiction,
Prizes: $1,000, $250, $100, and www.sequestrum.org resources/prizes/ up to 5,000 words, or up to 5
publication poems
Entry fee: $15 The Totally Free Best Quill (Queer) Prose Award Prizes: $1,000, $500, $250
Closing date: 15 October, TBC of the Bottom Drawer Entry fee: $20
www.sdeag.org Global Writing Prize Any prose work, over 150 pages, Closing date: 31 October
by a queer writer http://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org
Event non-fiction contest Anything at all, 40-1,000 Prizes: $1,000 and publication
manuscript pages Entry fee: $10 Sow’s Ear Poetry
Creative NF, max 5,000 words Prizes: Advance and publication Closing date: 30 October Review Contest
Prizes: Can$1,500, $1,000, $500 Entry fee: Free entry https://redhen.org
plus publication Closing date: 16 October Up to five poems
Entry fee: $34.95 https://store.eyewearpublishing. Atlantis Short Story Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Closing date: 15 October com Entry fee: $30
www.eventmagazine.ca/contest-nf/ Short stories up to 2,500 words Closing date: 31 October, TBC
Prizes: $300, $100, $50, www.sowsearpoetry.org
Lorian Hemingway Prole Poetry Pamphlet publication
Short Story Competition Competition Entry fee: $10 KSP Writers Centre
Closing date: 31 October, Poetry Award
Short stories up to 3,500 words Up to 35 pages of poetry TBC, hopeful for new details
Prizes: $1,500, 2x$500 Prizes: £100, publication, 15 Poems, up to 50 lines, by

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Western Australian residents or Entry fee: $20 https://untpress.unt.edu/ Closing date: 31 October
citizens Closing date: 31 October, TBC submitting-vassar-miller-prize- www.craftliterary.com
Prizes: Aus$300, $150; $100, $50 https://indianareview.org/prizes poetry
for youths Earlyworks Press Short
Entry fee: TBC National Flash Fiction CBC Short Story Prize Story
Closing date: 31 October, TBC Day Novella in Flash
www.kspwriterscentre.com Competition Short stories, up to 2,500 words, Short stories in two categories:
by Canadian citizens or residents up to 4,000 words, and up to
Storyhouse travel non- Novellas, 6,000-12,000 words, Prizes: Can$6,000, 4x$1,000 8,000
fiction contest in individual flash blocks, max Entry fee: $25 Prizes: £200; cash and books
1,000 words each Closing date: 31 October Entry fee: £5 for up to 4,000
Travel themed non-fiction, Prizes: £300, £100, £50 www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes words; £10 for 4,000-8,000
1,000-10,000 words Entry fee: £14 Closing date: 31 October
Prizes: $200, $100 Closing date: 31 October Minds on Fire Open www.earlyworkspress.co.uk
Free entry https://nationalflashfictionday. Book Prize
Closing date: 31 October, TBC co.uk/index.php/competition/ Finishing Line Press
www.storyhouse.org/ Poetry collections, 48-90 pages Open Chapbook Award
James Hearst Poetry Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Preservation Foundation Prize Entry fee: $25 Chapbook poetry collections,
Closing date: 31 October 16-35 pages
Biographical or travel non- Up to 5 poems www.conduit.org Prizes: $1,000 and publication
fiction, 1,000-10,000 words; Prizes: $1,000 and publication Entry fee: $15
Prizes: $200, $100 each category Entry fee: $23 Lexi Rudnitsky First Closing date: 31 October
Free entry Closing date: 31 October Book prize www.finishinglinepress.com
Closing date: 31 October, TBC https://northamericanreview.org
www.storyhouse.org/ Poetry collections, over 40 Retreat West Prize
Poetry Society National pages, by US women
Robyn Mathison Poetry Poetry Competition Prizes: $1,000, publication and all Short stories, 1,500-2,500
expenses paid retreat in Italy words, flash fiction, 150-500
Poems up to 40 lines, theme For poems, up to 40 lines Entry fee: $30 words, and micro flash, up to
flora or fauna Prizes: £5,000, £2,000, £1,000, Closing date: 31 October 150 words
Prizes: Aus$200, $50 seven £200 commendations www.perseabooks.com/lexi- Prizes: £400, £250, £150, £20
Entry fee: $10 for up to 2 Entry fee: £7, £4 each additional rudnitsky-prize-award each shortlisted for short stories;
Closing date: 31 October, TBC Closing date: 31 October £350, £200, £100 and £15 for
www.swwtas.org https://npc.poetrysociety.org.uk Benjamin Franklin flash; £200, £100, £50 and £10
House Literary Prize for micro
Young Walter Scott Larry Brown Short Entry fee: 10 for short stories, £8
Prize Story Prize Fiction and non-fiction for flash, £5 for micro
interpretations, 1,000-1,500 Closing date: 31 October
Historical fiction, 800-2,000 Short stories up to 4,000 words words, by young writers aged www.retreatwest.co.uk
words, by writers aged 11-15 or Prizes: $500, 2x$50 18-25, of a Benjamin Franklin
16-19 Entry fee: $10 quote River Teeth Literary
Prizes: £500 travel grant in each Closing date: 31 October Prizes: £750, £500, publication Non-Fiction Prize
category https://pitheadchapel.com Free entry
Free entry Closing date: 31 October Creative non-fiction, 150-400
Closing date: 31 October The Ideas Prize www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org pages
www.walterscottprize.co.uk/ Prizes: $1,000 and publication
young-walter-scott-prize/ First book proposals, 3,000- Slightly Foxed Best First Entry fee: $27
4,000 by academics Biography Prize Closing date: 31 October
Lushcei Prize for African Prizes: £25,000 and publication www.riverteethjournal.com
Poetry Free entry Best first biography published
Closing date: 31 October this year Shore Scripts Short
Collections by African poets https://profilebooks.com/ Prizes: £2,5009 Film Fund
Prizes: $1,000 profile-aitken-alexander- Entry fee: £25
Free entry nonfiction-prize Closing date: 31 October Short scripts between 3 and 13
Closing date: 31 October www.biographersclub.co.uk pages
https://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/ Malinda A Markham Prizes: Production budget of up
contests/ Translation Prize Cannon Poets Sonnet to $15,000
or Not Entry fee: $50
Honickman First Book Single author poetry collections, Closing date: 31 October
Prize translated into English by For 14-line poems that in some www.shorescripts.com
women way reflect the sonnet form, or not
Poetry collections, over 48 pages Prizes: $2,000 and publication Prizes: £500, £250, £150, up to Eric Gregory Trust Fund
Prizes: $3,000 and publication Entry fee: $25 ten £10 Awards
Entry fee: $25 Closing date: 31 October Entry fee: £5, £2.50 each extra
Closing date: 31 October, TBC https://saturnaliabooks.com/ Closing date: 31 October For a published or unpublished
https://aprweb.org poetry-prize/ www.cannonpoets.org.uk volume of no more than 30
poems by a UK author under
Indiana Review Creative Vassar Miller Poetry Prize Craft Flash Fiction the age of 30 on 31 March 2021
Non-Fiction Prize Prizes: A share of up to £24,000
Poetry collections, 50-80 pages Short stories up to 1,000 words Free entry
Creative non-fiction, up to Prizes: $1,000 and publication Prizes: $1,000, 4x$250, and Closing date: 31 October
5,000 words Entry fee: $25 publication www.societyofauthors.org
Prizes: $1,000 and publication Closing date: 31 October Entry fee: $20

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Tom GallonTrust Awards Entry fee: £10, £18 for two, £26 Treehouse Climate Commonwealth Short
for three Action Prize Story Prize
Short stories, up to 5,000 words, Closing date: 31 October
by authors who have had at www.flash500.com Poems that emphasise the Original, unpublished short
least one story accepted for vulnerability of our ecological stories, 2,000-5,000 words, by
publication NOVEMBER condition writers from Commonwealth
Prizes: £1,000 Prizes: $1,000, $750, $500 countries in Africa, Asia, Canada
Free entry Brunel University Free entry and Europe, the Caribbean and
Closing date: 31 October African Poetry Prize Closing date: 1 November, TBC Pacific
www.societyofauthors.org https://poets.org/academy- Prizes: £5,000 overall, £2,500 for
Groups of ten poems, up to 30 american-poets/prizes/ winner from each region
McKitterick Prize lines each, by African writers or treehouse-climate-action-poem- Free entry
whose parents are African prize Closing date: 1 November
For the best first novel, Prizes: £3,000 www.commonwealthwriters.org
published or unpublished, by an Free entry Jack Swift Irish Writers
author over the age of 40 Closing date: 1 November, TBC and Poets Prize John Steinbeck Award
Prizes: £4,000 www.africanpoetryprize.org for Fiction
Free entry Short stories, under 10,000
Closing date: 31 October Cutthroat Writing words, poems under 100 lines, Short stories, up to 5,000 words
www.societyofauthors.org Awards brief monologues, max 5 minutes Prizes: $1,000
Prizes: £1,000; publication Entry fee: $20
Blue Light Books Prize Up to 3 poems, max 100 lines Entry fee: $10 Closing date: 1 November
each, short stories or creative Closing date: 1 November www.reedmag.org
Full-length poetry manuscripts, nonfiction, up to 5,000 words https://store.eyewearpublishing.
48-75 pages Prizes: $1,200, $250 in each com Scribble Annual
Prizes: $2,000 and publication category Themed Short Story
Entry fee: $20 Entry fee: $20 Catherine Doctorow Competition
Closing date: 31 October, TBC Closing date: 1 November, TBC Innovative Fiction
https://indianareview.org/prizes/ www.cutthroatmag.com Stories up to 3,000 words on the
blue-light-books/ Book-length manuscripts by US theme of ‘Neighbours’
Malahat Review Open writers with at least 3 books of Prizes: £100, £50, £25,
Benjamin Saltman Season Awards fiction published publication in Scribble
Poetry Award Prizes: $15,000 Entry fee: £4
Fiction or creative non-fiction, Entry fee: $25 Closing date: 1 November
Poetry collections, 48-96 pages up to 2,500 words; up to 3 Closing date: 1 November Theme Competition, 14,
Prizes: $3,000 and publication poems, none more than 100 www.fc2.org/prizes/ The Park, Stow on the Wold,
Entry fee: $25 lines Gloucestershire GL54 1DX
Closing date: 31 October Prizes: Can$2,000 and Ronald Sukenick www.parkpublications.co.uk
https://redhen.org publication in each category Innovative Fiction
Entry fee: $45 international Contest Writers Digest Poetry
Barbellion Prize Closing date: 1 November Awards
www.malahatreview.ca/contests/ Book-length fiction manuscripts
Books in any style or genre, self contests_info.html by US writers Poems, up to 32 lines
or traditionally published, about Prizes: $1,500 Prizes: $1,000, $250, $100;
life with long-term illness or Nilsen Literary Prize Entry fee: $25 vouchers, consultations,
disability Closing date: 1 November publication
Prizes: £1,000 Unpublished novels, novellas or www.fc2.org/prizes/ Entry fee: $25 ($20 before 1 Oct)
Free entry collections, by unpublished US Closing date: 2 November
Closing date: 31 October writers Brick Road Poetry Contest www.writersdigest.com/writers-
www.thebarbellionprize.com Prizes: $2,000 and publication digest-competitions/poetry-
Entry fee: $30 Unpublished poetry collections, awards
Bedford Competition Closing date: 1 November, TBC 50-100 pages
www.semopress.com/events/ Prizes: $1,000 and publication TripFiction Sense of
Short stories up to 3,000 Entry fee: $25 Place Creative Writing
words, poems up to 40 lines, Kurt Vonnegut Closing date: 1 November Competition
on any theme; extra categories Speculative Fiction Prize www.brickroadpoetrypress.com
for young people, 17-25, and Stories, up to 2,500 words,
Bedford residents Postmodern speculative fiction Edwin Markham Prize in which the location is as
Prizes: In each category: £1,000, in the Vonnegut spirit for Poetry important as the story
£200, £100 Prizes: $1,000 and publication Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250
Entry fee: £7.50 or 3 for £15; Entry fee: $23 Up to 5 poems Entry fee: £10
students £5, 3 for £10 Closing date: 1 November Prizes: $1,000 Closing date: 6 November
Closing date: 31 October https://northamericanreview.org Entry fee: $20 www.tripfiction.com/sense-
www.bedfordwriting Closing date: 1 November of-place-creative-writing-
competition.co.uk Briar Cliff Review www.reedmag.org competition/
Contest
Flash 500 Novel Gabriele Rico Challenge Arkansas International
Opening Chapter & Short stories and essays, up to for Fiction Emerging Writers Prize
Synopsis Competition 5,000 words, or up to 3 poems
Prizes: $1,000 in each category Non-fiction, up to 5,000 words Short stories, up to 7,500 words,
For an opening chapter no Entry fee: $20 Prizes: $1,333 by writers who have not had a
longer than 3,000 words, plus Closing date: 1 November Entry fee: $20 book published
synopsis www.bcreview.org Closing date: 1 November Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Prizes: £500, £200 www.reedmag.org

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Entry fee: $20 Entry fee: $17 agent for up to ten winners Prizes: €1,000, €200, €100
Closing date: 8 November, TBC Closing date: 15 November Entry fee: £10 Entry fee: €8.50
www.arkint.org/prize www.carvezine.com/prose- Closing date: 27 November Closing date: 30 November, all
poetry-contest www.bluepencilagency.com details TBC
Odyssey House www.albedo1.com/aeon-award
Victoria Short Story Perugia Press Prize Retreat West Novelette
Competition in flash Prize Observer/Anthony
First or second poetry Burgess Prize for Arts
Short stories up to 1,500 words, collections,45-87 pages, by US 3,000-8,000 words total, made Journalism
last year on the theme ‘family’ women up of flashes up to 500 words
and with a reference to drugs or Prizes: $1,000 and publication each An 800-word review of a
alcohol Entry fee: $27 Prizes: £150, £100, £50; publication recently released book, film,
Prizes: Aus$1,000, $100, $50 Closing date: 15 November Entry fee: £14 concert, exhibition, ballet, play,
Entry fee: $10 www.perugiapress.com/wp/ Closing date: 28 November TV show or performance art
Closing date: 13 November contest/ www.retreatwest.co.uk piece
www.odyssey.org.au/ Prizes: £3,000 and publication
Judith Wright Poetry Fiction Factory Flash of prize essay in the Observer, 2
Vern Rutsala Book Prize Prize x £500
Short stories up to 1,000 words Entry fee: £10
Collections of poetry or flash, or Poems by poets who have had Prizes: £200, £50, £25 Closing date: 30 November, TBC
both, 60-90 pages no more than one collection Entry fee: £5 www.anthonyburgess.org
Prizes: $1,000 and publication published Closing date: 30 November, TBC
Entry fee: $25 Prizes: Aus$6,000, $2,000, $1,000 http://fiction-factory.biz Audible New Writing
Closing date: 15 November, TBC Entry fee: $20 Grant
http://cloudbankbooks.com Closing date: 20 November, TBC Prairie Fire Contests
https://overland.org.au/prizes/ Unpublished crime novels by
Robert C Jones Short Short stories, max 10,000 words; new crime writers
Prose Book Contest Neilma Sidney Short non-fiction, max 5,000 words; Prizes: £10,000 grant to publish
Story Prize 1-3 poems, max 150 lines work in audio first as a priority
A prose manuscript of more Prizes: Can$1,250, $500, $250, release with Audible
than 60 pages Short stories up to 3,000 with a in each category Free entry
Prizes: $2,000 and publication ‘travel’ theme Entry fee: $32 Closing date: TBC, usually Nov
Entry fee: $25 Prizes: Aus$4,000, 2x$500 Closing date: 30 November www.audible.co.uk/mt/
Closing date: 15 November Entry fee: $20 www.prairiefire.ca/contests/ audiblegrant
http://pleiadespress.org Closing date: 20 November, TBC
https://overland.org.au/prizes/ Ringwood Short Story Fish Short Story
Yale Series of Younger Competition Competition
Poets Poetry Kit Autumn
Competition Short stories, up to 3,000 words, Short stories up to 5,000 words
Poetry collections, 48-64 pages, by Scottish writers or resident in Prizes: €3,000 for first, a week
by emerging US poets Poetry of any length on any Scotland, aged up to 30 at Anam Cara Writer’s Retreat in
Prizes: Publication subject Prizes: £50 West Cork plus €300 expenses
Entry fee: $25 Prizes: £100, £50 Entry fee: £2 for second, €300 for third, seven
Closing date: 15 November, TBC Entry fee: £3.50, £8 for 3, £10 for 5 Closing date: 30 November €200 honorable mentions
http://youngerpoets.yupnet.org Closing date: 20 November, TBC www.ringwoodpublishing. Entry fee: €20 for the first, €10
www.poetrykit.org com/product/short-story- thereafter TBC
Room Short Forms competition/ Closing date: 30 November
New Media Writing Prize www.fishpublishing.com
One or two prose poems, flash ServiceScape Short
fiction or creative non-fiction, Interactive fiction or non-fiction Story Award Betty Trask Prize
up to 500 words written specifically for digital
Prizes: 2xCan$500, $50, and delivery Short stories, up to 5,000 words, For published or unpublished,
publication Prizes: £1,000, student prize of any theme or genre traditional or romantic (not
Entry fee: $42 international paid internship or £500, £500 Prizes: $1,000 experimental) first novels by
Closing date: 15 November Dot Award, £750 journalism prize Free entry authors under the age of 35
https://roommagazine.com/ Free entry Closing date: 30 November Prizes: £20,000 total, to be used
Closing date: 26 November, TBC www.servicescape.com/short- for foreign travel
WCUPC Donald Justice http://newmediawritingprize.co.uk story-award Free entry
Prize Closing date: 30 November
Shooter Poetry Sunken Garden www.societyofauthors.org
Full length poetry manuscripts, Competition Chapbook Poetry Prize
50-10 pages, by US poets Paul Torday Prize
Prizes: $1,500 and publication Poems up to 100 lines Chapbook-length poetry
Entry fee: $25 Prizes: £150, £50, publication manuscripts (20-36 pages A first novel by a writer over 60
Closing date: 15 November Entry fee: £3.50, £8 for three advised) Prizes: £1,000
www.autumnhouse.org Closing date: 27 November Prizes: $1,000 and publication Free entry
https://shooterlitmag.com Entry fee: $25 Closing date: 30 November
Carve Magazine Prose Closing date: 30 November www.societyofauthors.org
and Poetry Contest Bluepencilagency www.tupelopress.org/contests
Agency Pitch Prize Queen’s Knickers Award
Fiction and non-fiction, up to Aeon Award
10,000 words, and poetry, up to First 500 words of an opening Illustrated book for children
2,000 words chapter and 300-word synopsis Short stories up to 10,000 in aged 0-7 published in the last
Prizes: $1,000 in each category Prizes: One on one meeting with any spec fic genre

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year words of a novel Closing date: 1 December HE Bates Short Story
Prizes: £5,000 and a golden Prizes: Publishing contract https://decembermag.org Competition
badge; £1,000 and silver badge for Entry fee: £18
second Closing date: 30 November CP Cavafy Poetry Prize Short stories up to 2,000 words
Free entry www.cinnamonpress.com Prizes: £500, £200, £100,
Closing date: 30 November Poems, submit up to 3 £100 for best short story by a
www.societyofauthors.org Ecologisers’ EcoSanta Prizes: $1,000 and publication Northampton writer
Short Story Competition Entry fee: $15, $3 each additional Entry fee: £6, £10 for two
Somerset Maugham Closing date: 1 December Closing date: 9 December, TBC
Awards Short stories for children https://poetryinternational.sdsu. www.hebatescompetition.org.uk
featuring Santa as an eco- edu/
Published work of fiction, non- champion, under 2,000 words Moon City Short Fiction
fiction or poetry by an author Prizes: £100 Breakwater Fiction Award
under 30 Entry fee: £5 Contest
Prizes: Total prize fund of Closing date: 30 November Collections of short fiction,
£10,000, to use for foreign travel www.ecosanta.co.uk Short stories, 1,000-5,000 words 30,000-65,000 words
Free entry Prizes: $1,000 and publication Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Closing date: 30 November Gregory O’Donoghue Entry fee: $10 Entry fee: $25
www.societyofauthors.org International Poetry Closing date: 1 December Closing date: 12 December, TBC
Competition www.breakwaterreview.com/ http://moon-city-press.com/
Writers Bureau Flash
Fiction Competition Poems up to 40 lines CafeWriters’ Open Poetry Daisy Pettles Writing
Prizes: €2,000, appearance at Contest
Stories up to 500 words on an the Cork Literary Festival; €500, For poems up to 40 lines
open theme €250, 10 x €50 Prizes: £1,000, £300, £200, 5 x A 20 page writing sample
Prizes: £300, £200, £100 plus Entry fee: €7, €30 for five poems £50, £100 Norfolk Prize Prizes: Two firsts, each getting
Writers Bureau course Closing date: 30 November Entry fee: £4, £10 for 3, extras £2 $1,000 and a month’s residency at
Entry fee: £5, £10 for three www.munsterlit.ie Closing date: 1 December, TBC the Daisy Pettles Writers’ House,
Closing date: 30 November www.cafewriters.co.uk Bloomington IN; 2x$250, 2x$100
www.wbcompetition.com DECEMBER Entry fee: $45
WS Porter Prize for Closing date: 12 December, TBC
Anton Chekhov Award Anthony Hecht Poetry Short Story Collections https://
for Flash Fiction Prize daisypettleswritingcontest.com
Story collections, 100-350 pages
Short stories, 500-1,500 words First or second book-length Prizes: $1,000 and publication Booksie Short Story
Prizes: $1,250, 3x$100 poetry collections, 48-88 pages Entry fee: $25 Competition 2022
Entry fee: $16 Prizes: £1,750 or $3,000, plus Closing date: 1 December
Closing date: 30 November publication; read under the https://regalhousepublishing.com For short stories up to 5,000
https://litmag.com auspices of the Folger Shakespeare words
Library in Washington DC. Orna Ross Green Prizes: $500, 2x$100
Bradt ‘New Travel Writer Entry fee: $29 Stories Novel Prize Entry fee: $5.95
of the Year’ Competition Closing date: 1 December Closing date: 14 December
http://waywiser-press.com/ Full length novels touching on www.booksie.com
Travel writing, 600-800 hechtprize.html ideas of sustainable societies;
words, on a theme TBC, by submit three chapters Roswell Award
unpublished travel writers Sillerman First Book Prizes: £1,000, £500, plus
Prizes: A holiday and article Prize for African Poets discounted appraisal s SF, up to 1,500 words; special
commission Free entry prize for feminist SF
Free entry Poetry collection manuscripts, Closing date: 1 December Prizes: $500, $250, $100; special
Closing date: 30 November, over 50 pages, by unpublished www.greenstories.org.uk $250 and $100 prizes, TBC
TBC, end of Nov African poets Free entry
www.bradtguides.com/articles/ Prizes: $1,000 Sunday Times Audible Closing date: 15 December, TBC
Free entry Short Story Award www.lightbringerproject.org/
Bath Children’s Novel Closing date: 1 December
Award https://africanpoetrybf.unl.edu/ Short stories, up to 6,000 words, Jhalak Prize
contests/ by authors with a record of
International prize for publication For book of the year by a writer
unpublished and independently Virginia Prize for Fiction Prizes: £30,000, 5x£1,000 of colour
published writers of children’s Free entry Prizes: £1,000
novels. Send first 5,000 words For unpublished novels, at least Closing date: 4 December, TBC Free entry
and synopsis 45,000 words, by women www.shortstoryaward.co.uk Closing date: 15 December, TBC
Prizes: £3,000, manuscript Prizes: Development and www.jhalakprize.com
feedback, Cornerstones online publication of the winning novel Strokestown
course worth £1,800 Entry fee: £25 International Poetry Prize Chorley & District
Entry fee: £29 Closing date: 1 December, TBC Writers’ Circle
Closing date: 30 November https://aurorametro.com/ Unpublished poems for open Annual Short Story
www.bathnovelaward.co.uk virginia-prize-for-fiction/ competition. Unpublished Competition
comic poems for Percy French
Cinnamon Press Jeff Marks Poetry Prize Prize for Comic Verse Short stories, max 2,500 words,
Literature Award Prizes: €2,000, €700, €400; 7 x on a theme TBC
Up to 3 poems €300 reading fees Prizes: £100, £50, 3x£20
15 poems up to 50 lines each, Prizes: $1,500, $500; publication Entry fee: €6 Entry fee: £6, £10 for two
2 short stories or up to 10,000 Entry fee: $20 Closing date: 6 December, TBC Closing date: 15 December, TBC
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Writers Digest Short Wild Words Winter Boulevard Emerging words, any theme
Short Story Awards Solstice Writing Writers Competition Prizes: £200, £100, £50
Competition Entry fee: £6
Short stories, up to 1,500 Fiction up to 8,000 words, by a Closing date: 31 December, ,
words 1,000 words of poetry, prose, writer who has not had a book quarterly, 31 March, 30 June, 30
Prizes: $3,000, $1,500, song or spoken word, inspired published Sept, 31 Dec
$500, 6x$100; plus vouchers, by a theme posted on the Prizes: $1,500 www.henshawpress.co.uk
consultations, publication website Entry fee: $16
Entry fee: $30 ($25 before 15 Prizes: A Wild Words one-hour Closing date: 31 December, Scribble Quarterly
Nov) 1-1 mentoring session, online TBC Short Story
Closing date: 16 December publication https://boulevardmagazine.
www.writersdigest.com/ Entry fee: £7 org/short-fiction-contest/ Ongoing quarterly
writers-digest-competitions/ Closing date: 21 December competitions for short stories,
poetry-awards www.wildwords.org C Michael Curtis Short up to 3,000 words
Story Book Prize Prizes: £75, £25, £15 in each
St Martin’s Minotaur/ Lascaux Prize for short issue
Mystery Writers of fiction Short story collections, 140- Entry fee: £3 (£5 with critique);
America First Crime 220 pages, by writers who have free for annual subscribers
Novel Competition Short stories, up to 10,000 lived in the US southern states Closing date: quarterly, 31
words Prizes: $10,000 and publication March, 30 June, 30 Sept, 31 Dec
Crime novels, over 60,000 Prizes: $1,000 and publication Entry fee: $25 www.parkpublications.co.uk
words, by authors who have Entry fee: $15 Closing date: 31 December
never had novels published Closing date: 23 December https://hubcity.org/press/c- Retreat West Themed
Prizes: $10,000 advance and http://lascauxreview.com/ michael-curtis-short-story- Flash Fiction Prize
publication contests/ book-prize/
Free entry Fiction, up to 500 words,
Closing date: 17 December London Magazine L Ron Hubbard Writers themed each quarter.
http://mysterywriters.org/ Poetry Prize of the Future December is ‘after’
about-mwa/st-martins/ Prizes: £200, 2x£100
Poems up to 40 lines Quarterly competition for Entry fee: £8
Hawkeye Publishing Prizes: £500, £300, £200 fantasy and SF short stories Closing date: quarterly, 31
Manuscript Entry fee: £10 Prizes: $1,000, $750, $500 each March, 30 June, 30 Sept, 31 Dec
Development Prize Closing date: 27 December, quarter; overall $5,000 for best www.retreatwest.co.uk
TBC of year
Book length manuscripts of http://thelondonmagazine.org Free entry Ouen Press Short
commercial fiction or non- Closing date: 31 December, Story Competition
fiction, up to 80,000 words; Wallace Stegner Prize quarterly, 31 March, 30 June, 30
open to all but aimed at Aus/ in Environmental Sept, 31 Dec Short stories, 4,000-10,000
NZ writers Humanities www.writersofthefuture.com/ words on a theme TBC
Prizes: $2,500 editing package, enter-writer-contest/ Prizes: Cash prizes and
author coaching, structural and Book-length manuscripts, max publication (£300, 2 x £100 last
line edit 170,000 words, in the field of Craft Creative Non- time)
Entry fee: Aus$45 environmental humanities Fiction Contest Free entry
Closing date: 17 December, Prizes: $5,000 plus publication Closing date: 31 December,
TBC contract Creative non-fiction up to TBC
https://hawkeyebooks.com.au Free entry 6,000 words www.ouenpress.com
Closing date: 30 December, Prizes: $1,000, 4x$250, and
Dead of Winter Horror biennial, all details TBC publication Moth Poetry Prize
Fiction Contest www.uofupress.com/wallace- Entry fee: $20
stegner-prize.php Closing date: 31 Dec TBC For a single unpublished poem
Fiction in any dark genre, www.craftliterary.com Prizes: €6,000, 3 x €1,000
1,000-5,000 words, theme TBA Arc Poem of the Year plus publication in The Moth,
Prizes: $20, $15, $10 Amazon Henshaw Short Story 8x€250 commendations
gift cards Poems up to 100 lines Competition Entry fee: €15
Free entry Prizes: Can$5,000, $500 Closing date: 31 December
Closing date: 21 December Entry fee: Can$35 for one or Quarterly competition for www.themothmagazine.com
http://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/ two poems short stories up to 2,000
dead-of-winter/ Closing date: 31 December,
early bird deadline, enter up to 3 For up-to-date competition details, all
Ruth Rendell Short for one fee; all TBC the latest competition launches and
Story Competition http://arcpoetry.ca/contests- publication opportunities all year round,
page/ subscribe to Writing Magazine, follow us
For short stories, up to 1,000
words Virginia Woolf Award on Twitter and Facebook
Prizes: £1,000 and commission for Short Fiction @writingmagazine and bookmark our
to write four further stories for
InterAct Reading Service over Short stories, 3,000-8,000 website:
the course of one year words
Entry fee: £15 Prizes: $2,500, 3x$100 www.writers-online.co.uk
Closing date: 21 December, Entry fee: $20
TBC Closing date: 31 December
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