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 Full details  The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2025/26 OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS Winning story £2500 | shortlist £200 | longlist £50 book vouchers + subscription Key information and Dates ——— Entry cost: £11 (plus 200 low-earner free entries ) ——— CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 8 November 2025 ——— For full information (including prize announcements and our judges), head here ——— For our most COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS , head here ——— For full terms and conditions , head here ——— to ente...

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 Full details  If you write historical or mythology-inspired short fiction, you can enter a story under 2,000 words to win some great prizes from World History Encyclopedia and Oxford University Press! Our contest is free to enter and we accept submissions in English from anywhere in the world. Submissions open 28 July – 29 Aug 2025 Ink of Ages Fiction Prize is run by World History Encyclopedia and generously sponsored by Oxford University Press . Contest Timeline 28 July – 29 August 2025 Open to Submissions Send us your historical or mythology-inspired short fiction. We can't wait to hear from you! 17 November 2025 Longlist Announced We'll email you if you make our longlist and publish your name on the WHE website. 12 January 2026 Shortlist Announced We'll email you if you make our shortlist and celebrate you on the WHE website and socials. 23 February 2026 Winners Announced We'll email you if you're a prizewinner and celebrate you on the WHE website and soc...

 Full details  Applications for the 2026 New Writers Awards are currently open. The deadline for all applications is Wednesday 24 September 2025 at noon. The awards are free to apply to, all travel expenses are covered and awardees are chosen by a panel of judges. We have an Access Fund to help support our awardees with any barriers they may face. The programme is flexible, and we work closely with awardees to help them participate as fully as possible. Read the category guidelines and apply How it works The Awards will run from January 2026 – January 2027. During the programme, awardees receive: A £2,500 cash award, allowing them to focus on their work (the bursary will be paid in two instalments) Tailored personal development opportunities, which can include mentoring from writers and industry professionals PR, performance, social media and presentation training  The opportunity to showcase work to publishers and agents  A week-long retreat offering time,...

  Full details  What's on offer? The winner of the New Writers’ Prize will receive a publishing contract with #Merky Books. All shortlisted writers will also be invited to our Writers’ Camp, where they will get the chance to participate in writing workshops, panel talks, editorial one-to-ones and meet the #Merky Books team. The prize will also aim to provide all applicants with the tools, information and access they need to develop their ideas, progress their writing and set off on the path to publication. Who are we looking for? The prize is open to Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic writers who are aged between 18 and 35 and residing in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Applicants will need to be unpublished and un-agented in order to apply. If you have a manuscript you are working on, or an idea ready to be put onto paper, we want to hear from you. This year, we are looking for the next William Rayfet Hunter, Hafsa Zayyan and Rivers Solomon. We are focusing on...

  Full details  The Rebecca Swift Foundation and Fly on the Wall Press have joined forces to invite submissions for a powerful new anthology celebrating the complexity, resilience, and creativity of women’s lives today. Curated by acclaimed poet and critic Jennifer Wong, the anthology will feature poetry and creative non-fiction by twelve UK-based women poets, from emerging voices to established names. Woman, Mapped will explore the journey of becoming a woman: the joys, the pain, and the defining moments that shape us. Works will be selected on the basis of originality, voice and craft. Bringing together poems and essays that poignantly map out each stage in a woman’s life. The aim is to curate a collection that scans the breadth of lived experiences across identities, cultures, and generations. Editor Jennifer Wong said: “I’m thrilled to be working with the Rebecca Swift Foundation on this anthology. We’re committed to creating space for a ...