The Solstice Nature Prize for Young Writers 2025 is open for entries! This year, Writing East Midlands is seeking 500-word short stories, 500-word blogs or 40-line poems from young writers across the UK—all on the theme of nature, the environment and issues related to climate change.
The Solstice creative writing competition is open to writers aged 7-25, with four age categories to enter (7-11, 12-14, 15-17) and prizes on offer for the first-place winner and five highly commended entries in each category. Prizes include: £100, goody bags and publication in our online anthology.
Writers can respond to the theme of nature as closely or as loosely as they wish. What we’re really looking for is something original and imaginative, a piece of writing that offers a considerate and fresh perspective from the UK’s emerging creative talent.
The 2025 judge of the Solstice Nature Prize for Writers is the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of children’s nature-themed novels Gill Lewis.
Free entry - young writers can enter one short story, poem or blog each.
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Deadline: 31st October 2025 at 11.59 pm