Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Mon 14 Jul 2025
Location: International

The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize seeks to discover talented writers on contemporary art. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 14 Jul 2025
Location: Ludlow, South Shropshire.

Applications are open for the 2026 Jerwood Writer in Residence bursary at award-winning theatre company, Pentabus. Read more...

Deadline: Tue 15 Jul 2025
Location: UK

Fox and Star Books, a new independent publishing house founded by acclaimed poet Carrie Etter, dedicated to amplifying diverse voices in poetry and fiction, has announced its inaugural call for poetry chapbook submissions. The press commits to publishing at least 50% of its titles by global majority or otherwise marginalized authors. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 17 Jul 2025
Location: International

Open to poets from anywhere in the world, New Writers are offering their biggest prize pot ever of £1,800, with a top prize of £1,200. The top six poets will win cash prizes and will be published on their website and in the next issue of the New Writers Anthology. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 18 Jul 2025
Location: UK

Ten writer residencies presented to professionally active writers in need of a place to write. This year marks the inaugural presentation of the RSL Scriptorium Awards, inviting applications from UK writers of any form with a successful track record in publishing or equivalent industries. Authors must be resident in the UK. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 23 Jul 2025
Location: Cornwall

Are you a writer aged 11-16 years? We are looking for young writers in any genre or form to be part of our mentoring programme and take your writing to the next level! Read more...

Deadline: Fri 25 Jul 2025
Location: Scotland

Literature Alliance Scotland is Scotland's largest network of literature organisations. We are excited to offer direct support to five established writers currently resident in Scotland. We have funds to award 5 x £3,000 bursaries for work-in-progress. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 25 Jul 2025
Location: International

Leicester Writes Short Story prize is an international short story competition open to published and unpublished writers. Set up in 2017, the prize is managed by small independent publisher Dahlia Books. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 31 Jul 2025
Location: International

Established to recognise and encourage creative writing and provide a platform for publication, the Anthology Short Story Competition is open to original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. Enter by 31 October 2024 for Very Early Bird entry fee.  Read more...

Deadline: Thu 31 Jul 2025
Location: International

Bending the Arc publishes, stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth. Thrutopian writing imagines ways through to a world we could live in and be glad to leave to future generations. It tells stories about tangible change and walks us along the challenging path from here and now to a hopeful, liveable tomorrow. Read more...