Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Fri 25 Sep 2020
Location: UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, or Republic of Ireland.

BBC Studios is looking for the next generation of series creators. One of the biggest hurdles for a writer is making the leap from working on someone else’s show to getting your own work produced. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 25 Sep 2020
Location: Ireland

The Irish Writers Centre are offering 20 subsidised entries for Novel Fair 2021 for BIPOC, Traveller, and working class writers currently living across the island of Ireland. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 25 Sep 2020
Location: International

The Novel Fair is an Irish Writers Centre initiative which aims to introduce up-and-coming writers to the top publishers and literary agents across Ireland and the UK. Apply by 25th September. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 28 Sep 2020
Location: International

Entrants are invited to submit up to 3000 words of the opening to any finished or part finished manuscript aimed at YA audiences or higher, of any genre, accompanied by a synopsis of no longer than 300 words. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 28 Sep 2020
Location: International

This year's Troubadour Prize is to be judged by Mona Arshi & Mark Doty. £3,500 available in prizes. Poems (max 45 lines) may be submitted from any country & must be in English. Read more...

Deadline: Tue 29 Sep 2020
Location: North of England

Scratch Me is a new filmmaking lab from Film Hub North for people based in the north of England. It’s a talent development programme for writers and writer-performers from a range of disciplines who want to experiment with the moving image.  Read more...

Deadline: Wed 30 Sep 2020
Location: International

[sub]liminal is a new online literary and art journal. We are currently open for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, photography, art, and mixed media to Issue 1.  Read more...

Deadline: Wed 30 Sep 2020
Location: International

We are interested in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and hybrid forms of writing and text art with any theme but for this issue, we are particularly interested in work that considers difference. Work in translation is welcome.  Read more...

Deadline: Wed 30 Sep 2020
Location: South East

Writing Our Legacy is launching a new literary magazine called Covert aimed at writers of Black, Asian and ethnic minority background (BAME) living in the South East of England, with an emphasis on supporting Sussex-based writers. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 30 Sep 2020
Location: International

Crowvus are looking for ghost stories of up to 4000 words for a Christmas anthology. Open to writers worldwide. There is also a category for children (10-16 years). Cash prizes. Read more...