Competitions and Submissions
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Deadline: Sun 14 Jun 2026
Location: Fife
Inspired by the Clydebuilt mentorship programme, Fifebuilt aims to provide three Fife-based emerging poets with a rare mentorship opportunity to develop their practice with renowned poet John Glenday. Read more... |
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Deadline: Sun 14 Jun 2026
Location: UK
The HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Awards, now in their 9th year, seek to recognise teachers who put reading for pleasure at the heart of their practice. Open to all teachers, librarians and reading champions, in and beyond the school. Read more... |
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Deadline: Mon 15 Jun 2026
Location: International
The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone over 16 from anywhere in the world, as long as your story is original and previously unpublished. Read more... |
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Deadline: Tue 23 Jun 2026
Location: UK
London Writers Centre has launched the ‘There Is Only Narrative’ Competition in partnership with the Eve White Literary Agency. The goal of the competition is to find new writers of non-fiction from backgrounds underrepresented in UK publishing. Read more... |
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Deadline: Thu 25 Jun 2026
Location: Scotland
Facilitated by St Mungo’s Mirrorball, Clydebuilt 19 is a free poetry mentorship scheme that offers emerging poets in Scotland the opportunity to work with an experienced mentor over the course of a year and develop a new portfolio of work. Read more... |
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Deadline: Tue 30 Jun 2026
Location: International
Since 2009, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize has been awarded to some of the most thrilling new voices in life writing, poetry, and fiction from around the world. The prize now also welcomes entries in translation across all three categories. Read more... |
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Deadline: Tue 30 Jun 2026
Location: International
Poetry Ireland Review is published three times annually. We welcome unsolicited submissions of poems, and proposals for articles and interviews, from Ireland and abroad, in Irish or English. We are now inviting submissions for Issue 149, edited by Colm Tóibín. Read more... |
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Deadline: Tue 30 Jun 2026
Location: International
Cranked Anvil have opened their International Radio Play Writing Competition. Any theme/genre, any setting, no limit to the number of characters. An array of prizes, including cash, a professional audio recording which is broadcast on UK radio and around the world online, and possible publication in a future digital anthology. Read more... |
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Deadline: Tue 30 Jun 2026
Location: International
The Astley Prize returns for a second year, inviting short story submissions of up to 5000 words inspired by the theme "A Sense of A Place". Open internationally to writers aged 16 and over. Read more... |
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Deadline: Tue 30 Jun 2026
Location: International
Sunspot Lit, an international magazine, seeks unique works. Accepts all genres and art forms. Submit flash, poetry, graphic novels, stories, CNF and art before June 30, 2026. Read more... |
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Making Submissions |
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Download Alison Baverstock's guide to making an effective submission to an agent or publisher.
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