Curated opportunities for writers.
There are four competitions: • Open Poetry Competition (£8 per entry; prizes: £1000, £500, £250); • Short Story Competition (£8 per entry; prizes: £750, £300, £200); • Book for Children Competition (£8 per entry; prizes: £750, £300, £200); • Young Poets Competition (£3 per entry; prizes: £200, £150, £100).
The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone over the age of 16. You can enter as many stories as you like. The entry fee is 17 € per story. • 1st prize: 3,000 € • 2nd prize: 1,000 € • 3rd prize: a week at The Moth Retreat in rural Ireland
The competition is organized by Poetry London magazine. Entries must be in English. The maximum length is 80 lines. For Poetry London subscribers the entry fee is £5 per poem; for non-subscribers £10. • 1st prize: £5,000 • 2nd prize: £2,000 • 3rd prize: £1,000
The Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is an annual short fiction competition organized by the Australian Book Review . Entries must be a single, original story of 2,000 to 5,000 words. Entry fee: AU$ 30 • 1st prize: AU$ 6,000 • 2nd prize: AU$ 4,000 • 3rd prize: AU$ 2,500
The competition is open to anyone over the age of 18. The theme is free, although the micro-stories should be related to Africa in some way. The competition is free to enter. • 1st Prize: 750 € • 2nd Prize: 375 € • 3rd Prize: 225 €
The competition is open to poets aged 18 and above. This year's theme is JOY. The entry fee is £10 per poem. The winner will receive a cash prize of £3,000.
The competition is open to anyone. This year's theme is ''The Cheat''. Your story can be set anywhere, feature any characters, and be written in any style. There are two categories: • Authors 21 years of age and under with a prize of £1,000. Entry is free. • Authors aged 22 years and above with a prize of £500 (entry £10 or £5 with student id).
The competition is open to anyone over the age of 18. Submissions must be previously unpublished works of fiction of up to 2000 words and must be in English. The entry fee is €20 for the first submission. • First Prize: 2,000 € and a week’s residency at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation • Runner-up Prizes (2): 1,000 €
The Yeovil Literary Prize is open to anyone over the age of 16. There are five categories: • Novel (1st prize: £1350) • Short Story (1st prize: £625)• Poetry (1st prize: £625)• Children's and Young Adult Novel (1st prize: £625) • Writing Without Restrictions (1st prize: £275). Entry fees: from £8 to £18.50.
The competition is open to writers of any nationality, aged 16 years old and over. The competition has four categories: • Poetry (1st prize: £5,000); • Short story (1st prize: £5,000); • Flash fiction (1st prize: £1,000); • Novel (1st prize: £1,500). Entry fees: from £12 to £26.
You may submit stories and essays on any theme, up to 6,000 words each. For this contest, a story is any short work of fiction, and an essay is any short work of nonfiction. The entry fee is $25. The winning story and the winning essay will each receive $3,500. Ten honorable mentions will receive $500 each.