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  full details  he Prize Founded in 2010, by  Professor Janet Todd OBE and now going into its 17th year, DBE, the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize is renowned for championing and launching the careers of exceptional women writers. With a prestigious legacy, the prize attracts a wealth of literary talent and is actively seeking submissions that seamlessly blend literary merit with captivating storytelling – the "unputdownable" novel. The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors will benefit from a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent at prize sponsor WME , including editorial feedback and invaluable publishing advice. Join us in our mission to discover and support the next generation of exceptional storytellers. Enter the 2027 Prize here  Fiction Prize books The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize has gone from strength to strength with many shortlisted and winning authors securing publishing deals and furthering their wr...

 f ull details  he Bridget Jones Prize has been established by Helen Fielding, author of the best-selling and era-defining book s Bridget Jones’s Diary , Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason , Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and Bridget Jones’s Baby: The Diaries ,  to find a distinctive new comedy voice from the North of England. The prize is open to unpublished and unagented writers based in the North of England. The North of England is defined as the areas covered by Arts Council England in Yorkshire, North East and North West. Writers will be asked to submit a standalone piece of up to 1,000-words of first-person prose, in a nod to the diary entries of Fielding’s fictional heroine Bridget Jones. There will be one winner, and one highly commended writer. The prize celebrates and promotes Northern comedy voices such as those that inspired Helen’s writing and her own comic creation, Bridget Jones, whose distinctive voice was influenced by the humour of Northern comed...

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  full details nce 2016, Aurora has provided a platform for writers, offering a prize that is truly national (and international) with its heart in the East Midlands.   Our judges have included leading literary lights from the region and beyond, with names such as Joanna Cannon, Casey Bailey, Mahsuda Snaith, Alison Moore, Jon McGregor, Malika Booker, Helen Mort, Debris Stevenson, Shreya Sen-Handley, Georgina Wilding, Joelle Taylor and Irenosen Okojie.   We are thrilled to announce that this year’s judges are BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dean Atta, reading poetry, and 2021 Desmond Elliot Prize winner and 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize shortlistee A K Blakemore, reading short fiction.   As well as receiving a cash prize, winners receive feedback on a piece of work of their choice from a matched literary agent or editor.   We receive hundreds of entries each year, with the best 25 in each category making it to a published longlis...

  full details  What would you protect? A curlew calling across an empty moor. The last pub in a village. A language passed between generations. A library threatened with closure. The right to be different, to belong, to exist without apology. In a world where so much feels increasingly precarious, Nine Pens is inviting poets to consider what matters, what is at risk and what deserves to be defended. Protect the... is a new poetry anthology exploring the things we stand to lose and the things we refuse to surrender. We are looking for poems that engage imaginatively with the idea of protection, whether through the natural world, cultural heritage, community, identity, language, memory or the freedoms we sometimes take for granted. We are particularly interested in poems that approach the theme in unexpected ways. Protection can be an act of love, resistance, preservation or defiance. It can also be complicated, contradictory or even unwelcome. What do we choose to ...

 Full details  bmit the first 5,000 words of your adult fiction novel for a chance to win The Paris Prize for Fiction , worth £1,000 and a critique. The competition is open to unpublished writers aged 18 and over, and entries close on Monday 30 November 2026. ...