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Deadline: Sun 24 Mar 2024
Location: UK
The first Oxford Poetry Library competition, in association with the Oxford Hub, celebrates the theme of TASTE. We hope to highlight the many talented but possibly under-celebrated poets we know are out there, while supporting the library. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 28 Mar 2024
Location: UK
The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators is a UK-wide creative translation competition for students aged 11-18 studying French, German, Italian, Mandarin and Spanish. The competition also runs from French into Welsh. Free to enter. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 28 Mar 2024
Location: International
Serendipity and Writing East Midlands are looking for creative writers from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora who identify as women to submit short stories for the 2024 edition of BlackInk’s New Writing Competition. International entries welcomed. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 28 Mar 2024
Location: North of England
Submission Window 2 of our flagship awards, supported by the Northern Writers’ Awards’ lead supporter, Northumbria University, will close for entry on 12 February 2024 at 5pm. On the same day, awards will open in Submission Window 3 including a new award for LGBTQ+ writers, founded by Andrew McMillan. Read more...

Deadline: Fri 29 Mar 2024
Location: International
Poems on any subject of less than 50 lines are invited from anyone aged 16 or over. First prize: £100, Second prize £50, Short listed poems £20. Wakefield postcode prize £25. Read more...

Deadline: Sat 30 Mar 2024
Location: International
Arboreal Literary Magazine is seeking creative writing and art on the theme of Eternity for Issue No. 06. We are based in Oregon, U.S.A. but accept work from writers worldwide (so long as it is work written in English). Read more...

Deadline: Sun 31 Mar 2024
Location: France
The Studio Faire Residency Fellowship will provide two weeks accommodation to a creative practitioner in a beautiful residency venue located in a small town in South West France in 2025. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 31 Mar 2024
Location: International
In memory of Professor Bill Overton (1946-2012), the English Division in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University offers this prize for a sequence of poems up to 300 lines on any subject. The first-placed entry will be published as a limited edition pamphlet. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 31 Mar 2024
Location: International
The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is an annual prize for an unpublished poem written by an adult for children aged 7–11. This year's judge is Joseph Coelho.  Read more...

Deadline: Sun 31 Mar 2024
Location: Scotland
The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award was inaugurated in 2014 and is held every two years. It has supported the work of over twenty young poets with a prize of £20,000, which up to 2020 was given to one poet but now may be divided between up to four poets. Read more...
Writing Guides
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