This award seeks to recognise and reward emerging critical and creative talent.

The awards are judged by award and prize winning academics from the department. First prize is £100 of book vouchers and publication in our student journal Cake. Second and third prize winners will receive £50 and £25 in book vouchers retrospectivity and their entries will be published here on this web site. 

We are pleased to announce that the sixth annual Lancaster Writing Awards is now open for entries.

Categories

• Criticism
• Fiction
• Poetry 
• Script and Screen Writing

Prizes (per category)

First prize: £100 book vouchers and publication in Cake Magazine
Second prize: £50 book vouchers 
Third prize: £25 book vouchers

(second and third prize winners will also be published on the website)

Judges

Professor Terry Eagleton, international celebrated scholar and literary theorist, will judge the entries in the criticism category. 

Professor Paul Farley, prize-winning poet, writer, broadcaster and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, will judge the entries in the poetry category. 

Jenn Ashworth, prize-winning novelist and short story writer, will judge the entries in the prose fiction category. 

Tajinder Singh Hayer, celebrated screen-writer, will judge the script and screen writer category. 

Competition Details

To see the kind of work we like, please read the short-form creative and critical work of our current undergraduates in the online Flash Journal or read the shortlisted entries from the previous writing awards. If you’re looking for inspiration, you can use one of the quotations below on the body*, or you may wish to choose your own theme.

The length stipulations are 1500 words for criticism and fiction, 25 lines for poetry and 8 pages for script.

For more information and to send your work