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Welcome to The Writer's Compass E-bulletin #633 Our next bulletin will be sent on 06/08/2025. Anything sent to Philippa Johnston by 04/08/2025 will be considered.

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NAWE Online Conference 2025: Inspiring Writing
Friday 7 & Saturday 8 November 2025, Online

** Early Bird tickets on sale **

We'll be launching what is an especially rich and diverse conference programme in late August. Early Bird tickets are on sale here

Prize Draw: The Ultimate Guide to Editing Your Novel by Sara Grant

Thanks to everyone for entering the prize draw for The Ultimate Guide to Editing Your Novel by Sara Grant generously donated by Bloomsbury. This step-by-step guide demystifies the process of preparing a manuscript for submission to agents and publishers or for those self-publishing. The first name out of the hat was John Clarke. Congratulations John!

NAWE Publication Deadlines

Writing in Education Issue 96: Please submit your articles exploring the teaching and facilitation of creative writing in educational and community settings  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.

News around the sector:

Leading children’s reading charity BookTrust is launching a series of modules for teaching assistants. You can access the module which focuses on the role reading plays in children’s wellbeing here.

NAWE is now on InstagramLinkedIn and Bluesky as well as Facebook - follow us for more NAWE news and updates from around the writing world. 


Jobs
Finance Officer, Spread the Word
Deadline: 18/08/2025 - London
London's literature development agency is looking for a part-time, freelance Finance Officer to join our team.
School Communities Regional Outreach Co-ordinator, Scottish Book Trust
Deadline: 04/08/2025 - Scotland
Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives. We have a regional position available to support schools engage with our programmes.
Box Office Manager, Wimbledon BookFest
Deadline: 04/08/2025 - South East England
We are seeking an experienced Box Office Manager to oversee the day-to-day running of our Spektrix ticketing system for Wimbledon BookFest 2025. This is a hands-on, fast-paced temporary role suited to someone with excellent technical skills in Spektrix, strong sales and customer focus.
Reading Schools Early Years Project Manager, Scottish Book Trust
Deadline: 28/07/2025 - Scotland
Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives. Reading Schools is an accreditation programme, designed to celebrate schools who are building and sustaining a reading for pleasure culture for their learners, staff and families.
Granada Writing Residency 2025
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - Europe
The Granada International Writers in Residence Programme is open to writers and literary translators residing in any country and writing in any language and offers a 30-night stay in Granada for two writers, from November 3 to December 2, 2025.
Writer’s Residency in Brussels with Passa Porta
Deadline: 01/09/2025 - Europe
The National Centre for Writing is collaborating with the International House of Literature Passa Porta and Flanders Literature to offer a month-long writing residency in Brussels in 2026.
Open Call: Poet-in-Residence at the Laurel Prize Weekend 2025
Deadline: 05/08/2025 - Yorkshire
Poetry School invites applications for an early or mid-career poet to be our Poet-in-Residence at the Laurel Prize weekend in Bradford on 19 and 20 September 2025.

Competitions/Submissions
Irish Writers Centre: International Debut Novel Competition 2025
Deadline: 14/09/2025 - International
Are you the next big voice in fiction? Submissions open on 1 August 2025 for the Irish Writers Centre International Debut Novel Competition (IDNC). A revamped version of the Novel Fair, the competition offers aspiring novelists the chance to pitch their debut novels to leading agents and publishers.
The Aurora Prize for Writing 2025 - Deadline approachig
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. Deadline for entries is 6 August.
Stephen Spender Prize 2025 - Just over a week left to submit!
Deadline: 31/07/2025 - Republic of Ireland
Calling teachers and pupils across the UK and Ireland. Get creative with translation this July with the Stephen Spender Prize 2025. Just over a week left to submit! Free entry for all young people and teachers in the UK and Ireland.
Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award 2025
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - International
With a £2,000 first prize, the Edinburgh Flash Fiction Award has grown to become one of the UK's leading flash fiction competitions. Also announcing the Edinburgh True Flash Award which celebrates memoirs, creative non-fiction, and auto-fiction with a £500 first prize.
2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Deadline: 13/10/2025 - International
Celebrating twenty-two years of world poetry, Australian Book Review welcomes entries to the 2026 Peter Porter Poetry Prize, one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected poetry awards.
Curtis Brown Creative Breakthrough Scholarships
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - International
Curtis Brown Creative regularly offers funded places on its online and face-to-face courses to talented writers facing barriers to entry. Deadlines from 31 August 2025 for its upcoming scholarship opportunities.
The Masters Review Summer Short Story Award for New Writers
Deadline: 07/09/2025 - International
The Summer Short Story Award for New Writers returns! Since 2016, our Short Story Award has connected emerging writers with some of the industry’s top literary agents.
Morecambe Poetry Festival Competition 2025
Deadline: 28/07/2025 - International
Morecambe Poetry Festival Poetry Competition 2025 has a 1st prize of £300, a 2nd prize £125, and three 3rd prizes of £25, with an additional prize of £50 for the best poem from a LA3 or LA4 postcode. The main judge will be John Hegley. John will be assisted in judging by Rachel Pantechnicon and Francesca Beard.
Freudenheim Translation Prize 2025
Deadline: 15/08/2025 - International
The Jewish Literary Foundation has announced the launch of the inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize, celebrating excellence in translated fiction and non-fiction into English and highlighting the power of Jewish literature to engage international and diverse audiences.
The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2025
Deadline: 30/09/2025 - International
The Moth Nature Writing Prize aims to encourage and celebrate the art of nature writing.
The Alfred Fagon Award 2025
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - UK
A writing competition open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK, for the best original, new stage play in English.
Mustapha Matura Award 2025
Deadline: 31/08/2025 - UK
The competition is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK, and awarded to the Most Promising Playwright based on their submission of an original, new stage play in English and their application for the award.


Events
Megan at The Writers' Greenhouse: The Summer of Writing 2025 Workshops: Creative Writing for Adults
Region: South East England
Five full-day creative writing workshops for adults on Saturdays in Oxford in August. These one-day writing workshops are filled with creative, practical exercises to discover new ideas and use them immediately. All the workshops are multi-level (suitable for both beginners and experienced writers) and for most workshops you can choose to create new ideas or to develop a work in progress.
Faber Academy: New Six-Month Course Writing Memoir with Margie Orford
Region: London
Our first six-month writing memoir course for the serious writer, with access to some of the biggest names in publishing.
Irish Writers Centre: Art and the Personal Essay with Roe McDermott
Region: International
This course will explore how to use a work of art to tell a personal story. We will look at memoirs, essays, and reviews to look at how art – in any medium – can inform and elevate our understanding of ourselves, and the world.
Moniack in a Month – Poetry with Purpose with Joelle Taylor
Region: International
This course will consider how we write poetry that can be practically applied, leading to a greater understanding of poetic technique, of school and adult oriented networks for workshops and courses, of writing funding applications, and more.
City Lit: Writing for podcasts with Eleanor Penny
Region: International
Podcasts are growing rapidly in popularity, and more and more people are making their own. Find out more about all the different kinds of writing involved in producing a podcast, hone your skills and, with support from your tutor, develop your own ideas for audio.
Curtis Brown Creative New Writers' Day
Region: London
CBC is holding its inaugural New Writers' Day in London this autumn! Join us at Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross (Central London) on Saturday 4 October 2025 for an exciting day of pitching, learning, networking and panels for aspiring authors!
The Poetry Business: Online Workshops in August 2025
Region: International
Coming up from The Poetry Business this August are online workshops with Jonathan Edwards, Michael Schmidt, Hannah Lowe, Vanessa Lampert, Amanda Dalton and Rory Waterman.
Arvon Masterclass: Writing the Future - What could possibly go wrong? with Adam Marek
Region: International
When you sit down to write a piece of fiction set in the future, what are you hoping to achieve?
Ty Newydd: Writing Yourself In: The personal essay & memoir with Tiffany Murray & Gary Raymond
Region: Wales
This course seeks to introduce emerging writers (and potentially established writers looking to explore non-fiction) to ideas, practices, and debates around non-fiction in all its forms.
Taster sessions for the Creative Writing Programme
Region: South East England
The Creative Writing Programme is the leading independent centre for creative writing teaching in the south-east of England offering one and two-year courses in creative writing, life writing and poetry in person in Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne and Tunbridge Wells and online.
Dialect: Level Up! Small group mentoring for poets with JLM Morton
Region: International
Elevate your poetic craft in this dynamic monthly small group mentoring workshop tailored for those already writing and eager to take their poetry to new heights.
Falmouth Poetry Group presents: The Curious Line - Workshop with John McCullough
Region: South West England
This workshop focuses on how to break new ground in your poetry through a range of reading and writing exercises designed to help you extend the boundaries of your use of language.
TLC's Self-Editing Courses (Fiction and Non Fiction) are open for bookings
Region: International
The TLC's self-editing courses are designed to equip you with the necessary tools to refine your manuscript whether it's fiction or non fiction. Tutors are Jon Barton (fiction) and Xanthi Barker (non fiction).
Professional Writing Academy: Write a Young Adult Novel with Lee Weatherly
Region: International
Find a fresher, more relatable teenage voice, and new ways of coming at the big issues in Young Adult fiction with hands-on support from a world-leading YA writer.
National Centre for Writing: Weaving History into Your Non-Fiction & Memoir with Katharine Reeve
Region: East England
Bring depth and richness to your non-fiction and memoir by interweaving the local history that surrounds us in this immersive workshop with Katharine Reeve.
Spread the Word: Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants Workshop with Tom MacAndrew
Region: London
A free online workshop for London-based writers about how to craft your Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grant application.
Poetry School: Care Poetics with Suzannah V. Evans
Region: International
Show your caring side as we explore the possibilities of a more caring poetics.
Writing the Occult: Belief
Region: International
The latest run of Writing the Occult gathers together an exciting range of speakers to explore the world of belief in your fiction.
New Writing South: Writing for Performance with Tim Crouch
Region: South East England
A workshop for writers who also think of themselves as theatre-makers; writers who see the act and form of performance as integral to what they write; writers for whom the audience is a fundamental collaborator in the theatrical exchange.
Write Your Life™: Memoir Writing for the Digital Age with award-winning writer Dan Allum
Region: International
This 12-week course will help you shape your real-life experiences into powerful stories that resonate - on the page and online.

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