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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The Caterpillar Poetry Prize is an annual prize for an unpublished poem written by an adult for children aged 7–11.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...

Deadline: Sun 31 Mar 2024
Location: International
The Featured Flash Contest will honor two grand-prize winners chosen by our editorial staff—one in Flash and one in Sudden—by awarding $1,500 and online publication. Open to emerging writers only. International submissions welcome. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 31 Mar 2024
Location: International
The Rubery Prize is a prestigious international book award seeking the best books by indie writers, self-published authors and books published by independent presses. The 2024 judges are Paul McDonald and Kerry Hadley-Price. Read more...

Deadline: Sun 31 Mar 2024
Location: International
Short stories (max 5,000 words) in English are invited from writers worldwide aged 18 years old or over. There are no restrictions on genre, style, theme, or subject, but entries should be prose fiction – not poetry or memoir. Judges: Yan Ge and Wendy Erskine. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 1 Apr 2024
Location: International
Poems (max 40 lines) on any subject are invited from writers worldwide writing in English. This year’s Head Judge is Pascale Petit. Read more...

Deadline: Mon 1 Apr 2024
Location: UK
In celebration of the work of the Cornish poet Charles Causley, the Young Person’s Poetry Competition 2024 aims to encourage and enable young writers to have a go at writing poetry themselves. Head Judge: Rachel Piercey. Enter by 1st April.  Read more...
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