Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Fri 30 Jun 2017
Location: National

Myriad and West Dean College invite previously unpublished writers to submit entries of up to 5,000 words from a novel or short story collection in progress Read more...

Deadline: Fri 30 Jun 2017
Location: National

It's submissions time again and the next issue of Here Comes Everyone is going to be THE BRUTAL ISSUE Read more...

Deadline: Fri 30 Jun 2017
Location: National

Poems submitted should be broadly religious or ‘spiritual’ in nature and, like all good religious poetry, appeal to those who would not necessarily describe themselves as ‘religious’ Read more...

Deadline: Fri 30 Jun 2017
Location: National

The BFS Short Story Competition 2017 will be open to entries from 1 April 2017. Anyone can enter, regardless of how many times they have been previously published Read more...

Deadline: Fri 30 Jun 2017
Location: Brighton

We were founded in 2014 by Rattle Tales, Brighton’s interactive short story evening. Our roots mean we love stories that work on the stage as well as they do on the page Read more...

Deadline: Fri 30 Jun 2017
Location: International

The 2017 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize will be open for entries from 2 December 2016 to 30 June 2017 Read more...

Deadline: Fri 30 Jun 2017
Location: National

The competition marks the 50th anniversary of Orton’s death. It also offers students a chance to learn about a celebrated Leicester-born writer and aims to show young people how they can transform anger into humour Read more...

Deadline: Sat 1 Jul 2017
Location: National

The Writing Platform offers a unique environment to publish academic writing that focuses on non-traditional research outputs and non-traditional research method Read more...

Deadline: Fri 7 Jul 2017
Location: Cornwall

We are pleased to announce open submissions for a new collection of short stories by writers living in Cornwall, to be edited by Emma Timpany and Felicity Notley Read more...

Deadline: Mon 10 Jul 2017
Location: National

CIT’s Flash Fiction competition is back and we’re looking for stories, in any genre and on any theme, up to 500 words long Read more...