Competitions and Submissions

Deadline: Fri 13 Jun 2025
Location: UK

Skear Zines is looking for writing that straddles prose and poetry, fiction and memoir, narrative and non-consecutive sequences, short or longer pieces (anything from 50 – 1200 words), fragments or some other experimental form.  Read more...

Deadline: Mon 23 Jun 2025
Location: London

Spread the Word's Developing Tutors Programme offers London-based writers a paid opportunity to teach their first creative writing workshop. Following a successful run of seven workshops in 2024-25, it will be opening applications in late May to run seven more workshops from September 2025 to February 2026. Read more...

Deadline: Thu 26 Jun 2025
Location: Scotland

Applications are now open for Clydebuilt 18, a free year-long programme that offers emerging poets the chance to work with an experienced mentor and develop a portfolio of new work. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 29 Jun 2025
Location: International

The 19th International Welsh Poetry Competition is now open and accepting entries from poets across the world. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 30 Jun 2025
Location: International

The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, which has been awarded to some of the most exciting new voices in life writing, poetry, and fiction from around the world since 2009, is to open to entries in translation across all three categories for the first time in 2025. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 30 Jun 2025
Location: UK

With mentors including Thomas Harding, Adam Kammerling, Kate Worsley and Olivia Sudjic, the celebrated Genesis Emerging Writers’ Programme supports UK writers across fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 30 Jun 2025
Location: UK

Do you write poetry, prose, fiction, creative non-fiction, travel or nature or life writing? Have you attended a facilitated creative writing group, workshop or programme in the community or online (not run by formal education or healthcare providers)? Read more...

Deadline: Mon 30 Jun 2025
Location: Hampshire

In 2025, people across the world are celebrating the birthday of Hampshire author Jane Austen, who was born 250 years ago. Jane had many friends and often wrote about friendship in her novels. Inspired by Jane, her life and the stories she wrote, you are invited to explore the theme of ‘Friendship’.  Read more...

Deadline: Mon 30 Jun 2025
Location: International/Sussex

Entries are invited for this year's Hastings Book Festival Writing Competitions. The main competition is for writers of short story and poetry and can be on any theme. Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world. There are also two prizes for Sussex writers. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 30 Jun 2025
Location: International

Submissions are open for the 6th Heroines Anthology and the 2025 Heroines Women's writing prize. Volume 6 is a special witchcraft-themed edition. We are accepting poems and short fiction from women across the globe. Read more...