Competitions and Submissions

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Submissions of previously unpublished poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction and memoir are invited from writers currently enrolled in a postgraduate program in any university across the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: Melbourne, Australia

Hosted by the University of Melbourne, the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) 2025 conference takes place on 3-5 December 2025. Abstracts for presentations and panels around the theme of Movement & Stasis are invited. 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The competition is open to poetry written in English, unpublished and of no more than 40 lines long.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

The Award is open to unrepresented and unpublished authors for a novel in any adult fiction genre written in English. 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: UK

Presence, Britain's leading haiku journal, is seeking haiku (including senryu), tanka, haibun, other haiku-related poetry, and relevant essays for its July issue. Read more...