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 Full details  Submissions open on 28 April 2025 Award Eligibility and Criteria for Entry The winning writer will receive £3,000 and a 9-month mentoring programme with a leading Black British playwright. The competition is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK, and awarded to the Most Promising Playwright based on their submission of an original, new stage play in English and their application for the award.  Entrants must confirm on their CV that that they are of African or Caribbean descent. Entrants must be 25 years or under at the time of submission.  The AFA reserves the right to disqualify any entry that does not meet the age criteria at the time of submission. The play does not need to have been produced.  However, if it has, only plays produced since August 2024 will be considered. Each entrant can submit only one play.  A play may also be nominated by a third party with the writer’s consent (e.g. vi...

  Full details   Submissions open on 28 April 2025 Award Eligibility and Criteria for Entry The winning writer will receive £6,000 and excerpts from their winning play will be showcased at the award ceremony. The competition is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, permanently resident in the UK, for the best original, new stage play in English.  Entrants must confirm on their CV that that they are of African and Caribbean descent. The play does not need to have been produced.  However, if it has, only plays produced since August 2024 will be considered. Each entrant can submit only one play. A play may also be nominated by a third party with the writer’s consent (e.g. via an agent). Plays must be typed, full length and presented as double-spaced, single-sided, in Times New Roman, font 12pt and be a minimum of 40 pages and submitted as a .doc file (Word or PDF).  Manuscripts cannot be altered after entry. Television, radio plays a...

  Full details  he Freudenheim Translation Prize celebrates excellence in translated fiction and non-fiction, highlighting the power of Jewish literature to engage diverse audiences. Sponsored by Tom and Leslie Freudenheim, in honour of Adam Freudenheim. 2026 Award Now open for applications We are proud to launch the inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize, the most ambitious award in the Jewish Literary Foundation’s history. This international prize celebrates excellence in translating fiction and non-fiction into English, highlighting the power of Jewish literature to engage international and diverse audiences.  The inaugural prize will consider books published in English between June 2023 and June 2025.  The longlist will be announced in November 2025 and th...

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  Full details  Poetry School invites applications for an early or mid-career poet to be our Poet-in-Residence at the Laurel Prize weekend, on 19 and 20 September 2025.  The Laurel Prize was established by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage in 2019 in association with Poetry School. It is an annual award for the best collection of nature or environmental poetry to highlight the climate crisis and raise awareness of the challenges and potential solutions at this critical point in our planet’s life.   This year, the Laurel Prize Weekend is held in Bradford, the UK City of Culture 2025, in partnership with BBC Contains Strong Language Festival , University of Leeds and National Landsca pes .  The weekend will consist of a Prize-Giving ceremony on Friday 19 September, and a day of workshops with esteemed judges Kathleen Jamie and Daljit Nagra on Saturday 20 September.   Our Laurel Poet-in-Residence will attend the weekend in person, including the...

 Full details  The National Centre for Writing is collaborating with the International House of Literature Passa Porta and Flanders Literature to offer a month-long writing residency in Brussels in 2026 . The exact date of the residency will be agreed by Passa Porta with the successful applicant. The residency is part of an exchange with the National Centre for Writing, who will hosting two writers from Flanders in Norwich in April 2026. About the residency Passa Porta is a multilingual house of literature at the heart of Brussels , providing a showcase, a platform and a workplace for literature. It includes a literary stage, a multilingual bookshop, a corner for ...

 More details  Granada UNESCO City of Literature , a program under the Department of Culture of the Granada City Council, in collaboration with the University of Granada —through the Vice-Rectorate for University Extension, the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization, and the Vice-Rectorate for Social Responsibility, Equality, and Inclusion—announces a new edition of its International Writers in Residence Programme in Granada . This initiative aims to strengthen international cooperation in the cultural sector and support literary creation—one of the key goals established by Granada as a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN). Objectives Granada UNESCO City of Literature and the University of Granada launched this program with the following objectives: To foster connections and exchange between authors from Granada and those from other cities and countries. To promote the international visibility of literary authors connected with Granada. To su...

 Full details  We are open for submissions… If you are a children’s book writer, and want to work with us here at Dinosaur Books, then get submitting! We will occasionally advertise for submissions for particular projects via Twitter and Instagram. Follow us @DinosaurBooksCo We are a very small company (you can probably tell that) and proud of publishing authors from under represented communities - writers of colour, working class writers. As a Black owned and led business, we are particularly passionate about championing Black writers and illustrators - these are under represented in the publishing industry (as are Black publishers)! We are currently also interested in illustration submissions, particularly from illustrators who draw in a pen and ink style. We look forward to hearing from you - we read all submissions received. Please accept my apologies for not reply...

Full details    For our international flash fiction competition (age 18+), we want your stories up to 200 words with a twist. We will announce a short list and winner once we receive 50 entries (see story count below). We are always open, so if you are number 51, you will be entered into the next competition as the first entry. Our winner will receive £30 via PayPal and publication on our  winners page. All non-winning shortlisted will have their entry fee refunded (does not apply to the feedback fee if paid). Entry is £2.50 via the PayPal button below (you can pay by credit or debit card via PayPal without a PayPal account. Local currency calculated in PayPal), or free entry if you pay £5 for feedback on your story. When paid, please send your story in the body of an email to:  fusilli-writing@outlook [dot] com  (Dot removed in an attempt to reduce spam). No attachments or links please. Our educational materials on how to write flash fiction...

 Full details  The National Poetry Competition Enter the competition  → Judges: Denise Saul, Ian Duhig, Susannah Dickey Prizes: First prize £5,000, second prize £3,000, third prize £2,000, commended prizes £500 Run by The Poetry Society since 1978, The National Poetry Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for an unpublished poem of up to 40 lines, open to all poets worldwide aged 18 or over Closing date: 31 October 2025  

  Full details  All of our contests open May 1 with October deadlines. The mission of the TWFest Writing Contest is to promote new work from emerging artists. The mission of the SASFest Writing Contest is to promote and publish new work by LGBTQ+ writers. TWFest hosts contests in one-act playwriting, short fiction, poetry, and very short fiction. SASFest hosts contests in short fiction and poetry. TWFest is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization. SASFest is a program of TWFest. We welcome submissions from around the world. Submissions must be original work and not published in any way.  Please review our contest guidelines carefully to avoid disqualification. Our next Festival dates are March 25 - 29, 2026 (TWFest) and March 27 - 29, 2026 (SASFest).  

 Full details  History Joy Bale Boone (1912-2002) was an American poet best known for her devotion to the arts. Born in Chicago, where she received inspiration from poet Harriet Monroe, Boone spent most of her life in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. She was active in the women's liberation movement, having formed the League of Women Voters in Hardin County, KY in 1944. Throughout her life, she served on numerous committees and boards in hopes that more people would have the opportunity to experience the arts in the way that she had. Her most significant work was The Storm's Eye: A Narrative in Verse Celebrating Cassius Marcellus Clay, Man of Freedom 1810–1903 . She served as Kentucky's Poet Laureate from 1997-1998. ...

  Full details The Scribes Prize is now OPEN for submissions! ​The Prize ​ Gold: $250 Silver: $125 Bronze: $60 15 Honorable Mentions: $20 each ​ ​All winners and honorable mentions will be published in mid-November 2025 in ScribesMICRO's 52nd issue and have a full page bio, photograph, and interview listed on our Authors   page. In addition, they will receive digital award seals that they may use on their websites and social media to announce their contest placement. For submitters who aren't chosen as the top 18, we might extend an offer of publication to especially notable stories. You are absolutely NOT required to accept our offer of publication if you do not place in the contest. For more info, here are the regular submission guidelines for our magazine. All submissions, whether they are chosen to win the top prizes or not, will receive 1-2 sentences of...

 Full details   Writing Competition 2025 Do you ever feel that your writing and creative work is made to feel like detritus? Like debris, rejected and lost, floating amongst the myriad of new writing that exists out there? You know your work is good and so do we – which is why we’re proud to launch the Detritus Writing Competition 2025 - for unpublished writers whose work has been previously rejected. Detritus is our first international writing competition and will open to entrants on 7th April 2025. Following a long and shortlisting process, the winner will be offered a prestigious full publishing contract with Pudding Press Ltd. The theme of the competition is flexible, but we are looking for original, inspirational and engaging work from within the categories of Horror, Philosophy or Young Adult fiction. We are particularly looking for urgency and excitement within the content. The competition is open to all writers internationally. Entrants must be ...

  Full details   Dear writer, Intrepid Times is thrilled to announce our 10th creative non-fiction and travel writing competition : A Book Led Me There . A good book can change your life; it can rewrite your personality, and it can send you packing your bags and heading to the airport. It could be a straightforward literary pilgrimage, like the many writers who sought out, for example, Paul Bowles in Morocco. Or it could be a subtler kind of inspiration; seeking the soul of Hemingway in Paris, or in pursuit of a certain feeling, depth, or sensibility, impelled by a writer who changed your experience of the world. Like all Intrepid Times writing competitions, entry is free and open to authors from around the world. Writers looking to improve their craft and gain valuable insight into how their work is perceived by editors may wish to upgrade to an Assessed submission. Submissions are open until Sunday, August 31, and winners will be announced in Octob...