NAWE Online Conference 2025: Inspiring Writing
Friday 7 & Saturday 8 November 2025, Online
Call for proposals - Three weeks to go!
There is just three weeks to go to the deadline for proposals for presentations and workshops for this year's NAWE Online Conference around our theme of 'Inspiring Writing'. If you missed our proposal writing guidance session, email admin@nawe.co.uk for the PPT/recording. We're looking forward to receiving your proposals! Deadline: 31 May 2025.
NAWE Member Meet-Up / 11 June 2025 - Writing for well-being focus
Registration is now open via Eventbrite for our next NAWE Member Meet-Up on Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 18:00 – 19:00 GMT. After a general catch up hosted by NAWE Trustee Jane Moss, we’ll be focusing on creative writing for well-being with writer, researcher and poetry therapist Victoria Field. Do join us! Free to attend but booking essential.
NAWE Publication Deadlines
Writing in Education Issue 96: Please submit by 20 August 2025.
NAWE’s Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research Volume 12 (Special issue exploring innovative & reflective approaches to creative writing pedagogy across all educational contexts): Please submit by midnight (GMT), 26 January 2026.
Prize Draw: Thanks to everyone who entered the Prize Draw for a copy of Writing Ecofiction: Navigating the Challenges of Environmental Narrative by Kevan Manwaring. Generously donated by Palgrave Macmillan, this creative writing textbook introduces students to ecofiction: narrative writing that focuses on the environment. The winner was Sarah Featherstone. Congratulations Sarah!
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Ministry of Stories is Recruiting: 2x Writing Facilitators - Community Writing Labs
Deadline: 09/06/2025 - London
We're looking for two ambitious, creative and inspirational Writing Facilitators to bring writing power to the children and young people in our Community Writing Labs.
Digital Marketing Executive, Booker Prize Foundation
Deadline: 09/06/2025 - London
We are looking for a passionate and committed Digital Marketing Executive to develop and create best-in-class social media content and community management for the Booker Prizes’ social media channels
Chair of the Board, Nottingham City of Literature
Deadline: 04/07/2025 - East Midlands
We are looking for a new Chair of the Board of Trustees. The new Chair will be joining us at an exciting and important time as we celebrate 10 years as a UNESCO City of Literature and develop our next five-year strategy.
Marketing and Communications, Wigtown Festival Company
Deadline: 02/06/2025 - Scotland
Wigtown Festival Company is seeking to commission a Marketing and Communications professional to support our activity and delivery of the annual Wigtown Book Festival.
Public Programmes Manager, Exeter UNESCO City of Literature
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - South West England
Join us to shape bold, inclusive programmes that celebrate Exeter and Devon as a region of stories, culture, and creativity. This role is 4 days per week, primarily based in our Exeter office.
Subject Leader - Creative Writing (0.4 FTE), West Dean
Deadline: 01/06/2025 - South East England
West Dean College is seeking an outstanding Subject Leader in Creative Writing to lead and develop our validated Graduate Diploma, MA, and MFA Creative Writing programmes.
Communications Manager, Spread the Word
Deadline: 10/06/2025 - London
Our mission is to help London’s underrepresented writers get their work into the world, and to connect communities to words and stories. The Communications Manager is responsible for our all communications and channels, including social media, our website and newsletter.
Learning Facilitator - Leeds, The British Library
Deadline: 27/05/2025 - Yorkshire
Could you bring the British Library to life for pupils and teachers at schools in Leeds? We’re looking for someone to deliver collections-based, curriculum-focused workshops.
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University College Cork
Deadline: 27/05/2025 - Republic of Ireland
The School of English and Digital Humanities at UCC wishes to appoint an experienced writer and academic to the role of Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing.
Writing West Midlands: Spark Young Writers are Recruiting Assistant Writers
Deadline: 06/06/2025 - West Midlands
Volunteer with the Spark Young Writers team and be part of delivering 190 children’s writing workshops across the region. With a mix of in-person and online groups, you can support your local community, or join our writers on Zoom from your living room!
Programmes and Partnerships Manager (London), First Story
Deadline: 27/05/2025 - London
This post plays a key role in delivering First Story's Young Writers Programme in London. The successful candidate will ensure that the programme is delivered at a consistently high level, and support First Story to increase its reach and profile as a cultural organisation.
Raising Voices Project Co-ordinator, MK Literary Festival
Deadline: 18/05/2025 - South East England
MKLitFest, Milton Keynes` premier literary festival, is recruiting an experienced project co-ordinator to oversee our Raising Voices Community Programme.
Partnerships Officer, First Story
Deadline: 27/05/2025 - London
We are seeking a proactive and highly organised individual with excellent communication skills and experience of researching, establishing and maintaining corporate and philanthropic relationships for this exciting new post.
Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition 2025
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - International
Open to new, emerging and established poets from any country. The winning chapbooks (16-24 pages) will be published by Southword Editions and launched at the Cork International Poetry Festival.
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025
Deadline: 31/07/2025 - International
Poems (max 40 lines) on any theme are invited from young poets aged 11-17 living anywhere in the world. This year's judges are Colette Bryce and Will Harris. Free to enter.
Novel Studio 2025: New Format & Final Deadline
Deadline: 30/05/2025 - International
City St George's University's prestigious Novel Studio programme is now accepting applications for 2025, with a final deadline of 30 May.
Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award 2025
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - International
Britain’s biggest flash fiction prize. £2,000 prize for stories on any topic up to 250 words. Open to writers worldwide.
Writing Magazine Grand Prize 2025
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - International
Win up to £1,000 in the Writing Magazine 2025 Grand Prize, our open competition for your short stories (max 2,000 words) in any form, on any topic.
Applications Open for the Fifth Genesis Emerging Writers’ Programme
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - UK
With mentors including Thomas Harding, Adam Kammerling, Kate Worsley and Olivia Sudjic, the celebrated Genesis Emerging Writers’ Programme supports UK writers across fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
The Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2025
Deadline: 25/07/2025 - 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.
The Aurora Prize for Writing 2025
Deadline: 06/08/2025 - UK
Writing East Midlands invites short stories of up to 2,000 words per entry and poetry of up to 60 lines in any genre, on any subject for this year's Aurora Prize. Open to UK writers aged 18 and above.
Young Walter Scott Prize 2025
Deadline: 31/10/2025 - UK
Entries are invited for this year's Young Walter Scott Prize, a UK-wide competition for writers aged from 11 to 19 with an interest in historical fiction.
The Saltires: Scotland’s National Book Awards 2025
Deadline: 01/06/2025 - Scotland
The Saltires: Scotland’s National Book Awards 2025 are open for entries for fiction, non-fiction and poetry titles published between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2025 by writers born and/or resident in Scotland. Work by debut writers is invited in each category in addition to general submissions.
Stanley Arts & Apples and Snakes: Scratch Lab
Deadline: 30/05/2025 - London
Apply now for Scratch Lab, a free performance development programme for early-career poets, rappers, and lyricists aged 18–35 led by world-class artists.
World of Books Sustainable Story Award
Deadline: 06/07/2025 - UK
World of Books has launched the Sustainable Story Award celebrating authors across fiction, non-fiction and children's literature who engage with urgent environmental and social themes. Free to enter.
The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2025
Deadline: 30/11/2025 - International
The Bath Children’s Novel Award is a £5,000 international prize for children’s novels, YA, chapter books and picture book texts.
The Astley Prize 2025
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - International
Nairn Book & Arts Festival has launched The Astley Prize, a new short story competition honouring the memory of Veyatie Astley, a talented young writer. A celebration of bold, original storytelling, it is open to writers worldwide aged 16 and over.
Spread the Word Developing Tutors Programme 2025-26
Deadline: 23/06/2025 - London
Spread the Word's Developing Tutors Programme offers London-based writers a paid opportunity to teach their first creative writing workshop. Following a successful run of seven workshops in 2024-25, it will be opening applications in late May to run seven more workshops from September 2025 to February 2026.
National Theatre New Views Playwriting Programme: Apply Now
Deadline: 09/06/2025 - UK
New Views is the National Theatre’s year-long playwriting programme for students aged 14–19. Each participating school is paired with a professional playwright who works directly with students to help them develop and write their own original short plays.
The Novelry launches 'The Next Big Story' Writing Competition
Deadline: 31/07/2025 - International
The Novelry, the online fiction writing school, has launched a new writing contest, ‘The Next Big Story’. Designed to discover fresh literary talent, the competition will award one winner £75,000 along with a year of support from The Novelry team to develop their idea for a novel into a fully realised fiction book.
Presence: Call for submissions
Deadline: 31/05/2025 - UK
Presence, Britain's leading haiku journal, is seeking haiku (including senryu), tanka, haibun, other haiku-related poetry, and relevant essays for its July issue.
The Owl Returns - Applications Now Open for Its 4th Edition
Deadline: 30/06/2025 - International
The 4th International Screenwriting Development Workshop from the Athens Film Office, 'The Owl', returns with a refreshed format, inviting both Greek and international screenwriters to Athens on 4 - 7 October 2025.
The Passionfruit Review: Here and Now 2025: Call for submissions
Deadline: 07/06/2025 - International
The Passionfruit Review is, first and foremost, a place for love poetry. In this contest, it is calling for love poems that engage with the world around us, with the here and now.