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  Full details   Winchester Poetry Prize 2025 opens Thurs 3rd April - 11:59am UK time closes Thurs 31 July - 11:59pm UK time 1st prize: £1000 2nd prize: £ 500 3rd prize: £250 The Kathryn Bevis Prize will be awarded for the best poem entered by a Hampshire-based poet.   ​Judge: Fiona Benson ​ Entry fee: £6 for first poem, £5 for subsequent poems Closing Date: 31 July 2025 (11:59pm UK time)   The longlist will be announced mid September, with winners announced  live at a special prize-giving ceremony as part of Winchester Poetry Festival at The ARC, Winchester on Sunday 12 October 2025.  Winning and commended poems will be published in a competition anthology that will be available on the day. ​​ Winchester Poetry Prize is generously sponsored by: ​ ​ ​     The Kathryn Bevis Prize is generously sponsored by: ​ ​ ​     All the information you need to enter the Winchester Poetry Prize is on thi...

 Full details  May Grants 2025 We're pleased to announce the first round of grant funding will support projects, people, and organisations that align with three key areas:  Creative Education, Creative Communities, and Creative Individuals. We will begin accepting grant applications through Submittable on Thurs 1 May 2025 and will close Sat 31 May 2025. Applications will reopen in September for Round 2. Click here to view our Grants Information Packet. *Please note that we are providing draft versions of the application so that applicants can prepare before filling out the form on Submittable between May 1st to May 31st. Applicants are not meant to fill out the draft forms below nor send in the application via email.* Creative Education Draft Application Form Creative Communities Draft Application Form Creative Individuals Draft Application Form ‍ Creative Education For our inaugural round of grant funding in creative education, we are seeking applications from pe...

 Full details  The deadline for receipt of all entries is  July 31  at 4 pm (GMT) . Entries will only be accepted through  Submittable. Entries can be on any subject, theme or genre. Entry fee:  £12 per entry . You can submit multiple entries as long as each entry is paid for individually and includes a separate entry form. Maximum word count is  3,000 words. All entries are judged anonymously. Please  do not include your name, address, phone number, email, website, social media details , etc. on the short story document or in the file name as this will result in disqualification. Formatting your short story: Your story must be written in English. A maximum of 3,000 words. No minimum. Title not included in the word count. Please submit a typed story in Arial or Times New Roman, 12pt, black. Double spaced. Include a front page which details the title of story and the word count ONLY.  The author’s name should not be included anywhere ...

 Full details  The Society of Authors’ and the  Goethe-Institut London s’ biennial Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation. The Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation was founded in 2010 and is presented by the Society of Authors and the Goethe-Institut London every two years. This translation prize is aimed at new and emerging translators based in the UK and Ireland, whose literary translation work has not yet been published in print. The winner is awarded €1,000 and is invited to attend the Leipzig Book Fair (usually held in March each year), including a place at the International Translators’ meeting organised by the Literary Colloquium Berlin. Entry is open to UK and Irish nationals and those who have been resident in the UK or Ireland for the past three years. The Goethe-Institut Award is now open for submissions. Please submit your translation of the Der Beste Tag Seit Langem extract by Jana Volkmann available on the web site via the o...

 Full details  A £1,000 Prize for the best unpublished short story of the year. We are grateful to ALCS for their support of the Prize. The 2026 Prize The RSL V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize seeks to find the best unpublished short story of the year. The 2026 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize is now open for entries and will close on  Thursday 28 August at 5pm . This year’s judges are Kirsty Gunn , Anjali Joseph , and Tom Vowler .  Please ensure you have read and understood the V.S. Pritchett Prize Eligibility and Guidelines  prior to entering. Submit Your Entry Entries for low-income writers The RSL is committed to increasing accessibility and supporting writers of all incomes. As such, we are offering 50 free entries to low-income writers based in the UK. To apply for a free...

 Full details  Opportunities We are pleased to announce the Windrush Commissions – Mouth Mek Fi Nyam . This initiative is part of a four-part project celebrating Caribbean storytelling and heritage while supporting the campaign to make Lewisham the UK’s first Borough of Literature. The wider project includes a series of oral history, gardening, cooking, and poetry workshops with Caribbean elders, highlighting the deep connections between migration, food, and cultural preservation.   About the opportunity We are seeking two Caribbean short story writers to take part in an oral history event with Caribbean elders on Windrush Day, 22 June 2025, at Catford Library, 2 – 4pm. The event will focus on themes of migration, food, gardening, and cultural preservation, with elders sharing personal experiences of carrying and sustaining traditions across generations. ...