Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Mon 25 Sep 2017
Location: Scotland

Playwright's Studio Scotland: New Playwrights Awards provide an important professional development opportunity for five early career playwrights living in Scotland who have a genuine commitment to writing for the theatre. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 27 Sep 2017
Location: Scotland

The Next Chapter Award supports an emerging writer over the age of 40 yet to publish a full-length work for whom finding time and space to write has proved especially challenging.  Read more...

Deadline: Wed 27 Sep 2017
Location: Scotland

The Next Chapter Award supports an emerging writer over the age of 40 based in Scotland yet to publish a full-length work for whom finding time and space to write has proved especially challenging. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 28 Sep 2017
Location: National

The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is the richest prize for a single short story in the English language, worth £30,000 to the winner Read more...

Deadline: Fri 29 Sep 2017
Location: International

The UK’s biggest literary awards for unpublished work is now open to entries to the Manchester Poetry Prize and the Manchester Fiction Prize. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 29 Sep 2017
Location: South West

Literature Works are delighted to announce that we are now accepting submissions to this year's TLC Free Reads scheme Read more...

Deadline: Fri 29 Sep 2017
Location: International

The Estate of W.S. Graham are seeking submissions for an anthology of poetry commemorating the centenary of W.S. Graham (2018). The anthology will be published by Donut Press and will contain 100 poems, a number of which will be previously unpublished poems by Graham himself. Read more...

Deadline: Sat 30 Sep 2017
Location: National

Crossing the Tees book festival invites writers to enter the festival's first ever short story competition Read more...

Deadline: Sat 30 Sep 2017
Location: Scotland

Submissions are invited from writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing or inclination for New Writing Scotland 36, publishing in summer 2018.  Read more...

Deadline: Sat 30 Sep 2017
Location: UK

In 2018 the RSL is undertaking to elect 40 new Fellows under the age of 40. Read more...