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Full details  troubadour international poetry prize 2024 judged by jane yeh & glyn maxwell first prize £2,000 second prize £1,000 third prize £500 plus 20 commendeds plus — winners read with judges at 2024 online international prize-night celebration on mon 9 dec poems on any subject (see below) submit via email by mon 23 sep 2024 results announced mon 9 dec 2024 Check out winners, winning poems & judges’ reports, 2023 & prior, on our previous-winners’-poems page. judges Jane Yeh was born in New Jersey, educated at Harvard & University of Iowa, now lives in London, & has degrees from Manchester Metropolitan, & London’s Royal Holloway Universities. She lectures in Creative Writing at the Open University, writes on books, theatre, & fashion for, among others, Poetry Review & Village Voice , & has published (with Sally O’Reilly) Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings (Routledg

 Full details  The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2024 is open! Enter your poems by 31 July 2024 at foyleyoungpoets.org The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is one of the biggest and most prestigious poetry competitions for 11-17 year olds in the world. Every year, 15 top winners and 85 commended poets are chosen; together, they represent some of the most exciting new voices writing today. This year’s judges are the fantastic Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood, and they can’t wait to read your poems! If you’re aged 11-17, send in your poems for the chance to be among the 100 winners and kick-start your writing career. Poems can be on any theme and in any style but must be no longer than forty lines. You can submit as many as you like. In March, we ran a webinar with the judges and a former winner where we introduced young poets to the award and heard the judges’ thoughts about writing poetry. If you missed the event but would like a link to the recording, plea

Full details  The HW Fisher Novel-Writing Scholarship will award one talented writer of limited financial means a free place on our three-month Writing Your Novel course with teaching in London. This hugely popular course features direct input from our literary agent team and top publishers. Teaching sessions and workshops will be led by critically acclaimed author Charlotte Mendelson, they will take place weekly on Tues evenings in the new Curtis Brown office located in central London (17 September to 17 December 2024). This scholarship is funded by top London chartered accountancy firm  HW Fisher . The CBC team are hugely grateful to HW Fisher who have been providing a writing bursary for writers of limited financial means on our writing courses since 2016. Read about some of our past scholarship students who've gone on to get book deals here . This scholarship is part of the Breakthrough Writers' Programme , an initiative designed to break down barriers to entr

  Full details  hy You Should Be a HellBound Books Author... Always championing new and upcoming, independent authors, HellBound Books' dedicated, impeccably professional, fun editors and promotional staff are here to make your transition into a HellBound Books published author a smooth and incredibly pleasant one... Run by seasoned, professional, published writers with over 25 years of business, sales and marketing experience, HBB is eager to embrace fresh, new talent across the whole spectrum of the dark genres. Read More Completed Novel to Submit?   HellBound Books are currently on the lookout for that certain je ne sais quoi in a novel (60K words and up), something that commands our attention from the very first word. If your work is finished, polished and up to our exacting standards, we'd love to read it! (PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR NOVELLAS, POETRY, OR SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

  Full details  Please read below prior to submitting stories to Does It Have Pockets. We are looking for fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. We also welcome pitches for columns (monthly or quarterly), interviews, book reviews, and other literary adjacent projects. Of particular interest are digital art, hybrid, and cross-genre works that straddle the lines of classification. Some specifics: Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know in your cover letter. We appreciate timely notification if a piece under consideration has been accepted elsewhere. We will be glad to look at previously published work (reprints) as long as: You have the rights, It has been at least 24 months since published online or three months if published in a small print-only run, and; You provide the prior publication credit at submission. Poetry: 3-5 poems Fiction: up to 5K words Creative Nonfiction: up to 5K words Please limit submissions to two per category until we’ve replied. Flash fict

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 Full details  Interested in seeing your work on our website? We are currently accepting submissions in the following categories: Poetry (max. 3 poems) Prose (max. 500 words) Flash Fiction (max. 700 words) Creative Nonfiction (max. 5,000 words) Short Stories (max. 5,000 words) We prefer writing to be single-spaced and in a standard 11pt font. Send us an email to chismosalit@gmail.com. Please attach your work as a PDF or Word document, and do not include any identifying information. Writing can be in English, Spanish, or both. Feel free to include a short bio (<50 words) in the body of your email. The subject line should begin with the genre of your work followed by the title. Example: Subject: Prose, “Pasquali the Dreamer” Our debut issue is themed “ CHISMOSA .” To celebrate the beginning of our magazine, we will be awarding $100 to the piece that best captures the spirit of chismosa that lives in all writers. We want work that explores the idea that to

 Full details  General Submission Guidelines Please submit your work through the Submittable page only. Redivider will not accept work through email or USPS. We welcome simultaneous submissions. We are looking for new and under-published voices. Submit what you’re worried to send elsewhere. We want pieces that are nonobvious and circumvent the familiar, that breakthrough abstraction to examine a moment or concept from the side, rather than straight on. All submissions must be standalone pieces (no excerpts), although we accept single poems from a larger series of works. Things we wish we saw more: • Endings that stick with the reader • Characters with complex motives • Narratives with high stakes • Consistent voice throughout the piece • Pieces that reflect wider views and deal with current cultural and political discourses • Revealing core truths in an unexpected way • Making the familiar unfamiliar Things we already see a lot of: • Stories about illness • Priv

 Full details  Share your words with us and the World. Welcome to… THE BEDFORD COMPETITION a nonprofit group runs annual international short story and poetry competitions for anyone in the world over 17 years of age. There are prizes totalling £4,600 and all winning and shortlisted stories and poems are published as an anthology. SHORT STORY & POETRY COMPETITION MAIN PRIZES – £1500 2nd PRIZES – £300 3rd PRIZES – £200   CYGNATURE SHORT STORY & POETRY PRIZES  – £200 The University of Bedfordshire is sponsoring the  Cygnature Prizes for young writers aged 17-25 yrs   BEDFORD SHORT STORY & POETRY PRIZES – £100 All submissions are entered in the Main Prize. ENTER NOW FOR STORY ENTER NOW FOR POEM La

 Full details  Sponsored by Character 7, the Verity Bargate Award is Soho Theatre’s flagship new writing award with the winning play produced in a full production on our stages. It doesn’t matter how old you are, where you’re from or what you do. If you’ve never written before, that’s fine by us. Launched in 1982, the Verity Bargate Award one of the longest-established playwrighting awards in the UK and honours Verity Bargate, Soho’s co-founder who passionately championed new writing during her time at the small but hugely influential fringe theatre company, Soho Poly. In 2022 the Verity Bargate Award celebrated its 40th birthday. This year submissions open on Thursday 11 April to coincide with the S

  Full details  Deadline: Mon 6 May 2024 Goetre Primary is looking for one or more Practitioners to work on a Year 1 LCS Project. Enquiry: Can simple podcasting and spoken word recording open the way to oracy, literacy and the Creative Habits of Mind? Open to any ideas and approaches. Practitioners need not be particularly GarageBand/podcast savvy. The school wants to: boost confidence and engagement in oracy and literacy; encourage collaboration between pupils - they do not necessarily always play together well at present; counter the effects of unrestricted phone use at home. The school has chosen a class of Year 4s (and their teacher) to undergo iPad GarageBand training as part of a separate project coming up shortly. By the end of this, it will be expected that these pupils are confident in the exciting possibilities of this amazing app - not just for making music,