Northern Writers' Awards 2025 - Submission Window 3
Deadline: Thu 20 Mar 2025
The Northern Writers’ Awards opening dates are staggered throughout the year. Opening for application on 12 February are the next raft of awards including the Finchale Award for Short Fiction, the Tempest Prize, the Sid Chaplin Award, the Arvon Award, and the TLC Northern Promise Awards.
Submission Window 3
Awards open for submission 12 February–20 March 2025
The Tempest Prize will reward one LGBTQ+ writer based in the North of England. This award is open to poetry, fiction and narrative non-fiction. New, emerging and established writers can enter this award.
The Finchale Award for Short Fiction This award is for a single unpublished short story of up to 1500 words. This opportunity is open to new, emerging and established writers.
The Sid Chaplin Award is for writers of fiction and narrative non-fiction who identify as originating from a working-class background.
The Arvon Award In conjunction with Arvon, we are offering a prose writer the chance to undertake an Arvon course. This may be either a tutored or untutored retreat, depending on what you think will be of most benefit to you. Both children’s writers and writers for adults may apply for this award.
Northern Promise TLC Awards This award is open to people who may have faced barriers to seeing their work progress for financial reasons or issues connected to disability, ethnicity and/or sexuality. In conjunction with The Literary Consultancy, we are offering up to three poets, prose writers and children’s writers the chance to receive an in-depth editorial report on their work in progress.
Find out more about all these awards here
Deadline: 20 March 2025
Additional Information:
Location: North of England Region(s): North East England, North West England, Yorkshire
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