Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Sun 18 May 2025
Location: UK

The Creative Future Writers' Award is the only free to enter national writing competition for all underrepresented writers - those who face barriers due to health, mental health, identity or social circumstance. Read more...

Deadline: Tue 20 May 2025
Location: North of England

Script Lab is back, offering 10 new writers based in the North of England expert guidance and support to turn a short film idea into a ready-to-shoot script. Read more...

Deadline: Wed 21 May 2025
Location: International

Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre's award-winning poetry pamphlet press ignitionpress is open for submissions from emerging poets until 21 May 2025. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 22 May 2025
Location: International

Submissions of previously unpublished poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction and memoir are invited from writers currently enrolled in a postgraduate program in any university across the globe.  Read more...

Deadline: Mon 26 May 2025
Location: International

Poems on any and every subject are invited from poets from across the globe. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 30 May 2025
Location: UK

The competition is open to poetry written in English, unpublished and of no more than 40 lines long. There is no specified theme.  Read more...

Deadline: Sat 31 May 2025
Location: International

This £500 award is for the highest placed writer aged 60+ across poetry, short story, novel or flash fiction. Read more...

Deadline: Sat 31 May 2025
Location: Gloucestershire

Prose and poetry submissions on the theme of Edges are invited. Entrants must be aged 16+ and live, work or study in Glos./S.Glos. Read more...

Deadline: Sat 31 May 2025
Location: International

The Bath Novel Award is a £5,000 international prize for emerging authors of adult and YA manuscripts in every genre. The prize is open to writers of every age, gender, nationality and residency who are unagented, unpublished, self-published or independently published without advance. Read more...

Deadline: Sat 31 May 2025
Location: International

The Bridport Prize 2025 is open to submissions of poetry, short stories, flash fiction and novels. This year features the new Never Too Late Award for writers 60+ highlighting the hidden talent of older writers who often struggle to be seen. Read more...