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  Full details  ✨ Submit your story by June 30, 2025, for a chance to win a Galatea Publishing Contract and $300 , a free year of Galatea Unlimited, an Inkitt VIP Badge, and a feature on our Instagram! Share your most heartwarming or thrilling hockey romance and keep readers hooked. 📖 Join the Rinks and Romance Writing Contest, a celebration of love and passion both on and off the ice! 🌟 We encourage writers to submit original stories that blend the intensity of hockey with the depth of romance. Whether it’s a tale of forbidden love, second chances, or rivals-to-lovers, your story should bring the rink to life and captivate readers. 📝 Don’t miss this chance to showcase your work and gain recognition in the ultimate hockey romance showdown! All approved entries to this contest that reach over 1k published words will be displayed on a special shelf in the app.  

 Full details  About the Prize Named in honour of Writers’ Trust co-founders and literary couple Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, who started the organization in 1976 with the help of a few fellow writers and an aim to encourage a Canadian literary culture at home, the Atwood Gibson Prize recognizes writers of exceptional talent for the best novel or short story collection of the year. The finalists are selected by a three-member, independent judging panel and the $60,000 winner is announced at the annual Writers’ Trust Awards. The prize is part of a $3 million commitment to supporting our nation’s literature by the Balsillie Family Foundation.  

 Full details  Category 2 Short Story Requirement: Maximum 2,000 words Professional Judge: Nikki May Prizes: 1st £625   2nd £275   3rd £150 Entry Fee: £10.50     Category 3 Poetry Requirement: Maximum of 40 Lines Professional Judge: James Crowden Prizes: 1st £625   2nd £250   3rd £150 Entry Fee: £8.00   Category 5 Writing Without Restrictions Requirement: You write it – we’ll read it. Details are in your category Rules Professional Judge: Sarah Hegarty Prizes: 1st £275   2nd £150   3rd £100 Entry Fee: £10.00

 Full details  Wigtown Poetry Prizes General Rules     - Entries open 30 November 2024   - Entries close 7 May 2025 at 12 noon   - Poems may be on any subject   - Poems must not be previously published, accepted for publication or currently entered into another competition. If a poem is published elsewhere after being submitted for this competition, it must be withdrawn from the Wigtown Poetry Prizes, by emailing: mail@wigtownbookfestival.com   - Entrants must be 16 years of age or over   - There is no restriction on the number of entries submitted by each entrant to each category of the competition, providing the appropriate fee is paid   - Alterations may not be made to entries once they have been submitted   - The copyright of each poem remains with the writer. The winners and runners-up must grant Wigtown Festival Company the right to use their winning poems, including...

  Full details  2 are delighted to announce the launch of a multi-disciplinary storytelling competition in conjunction with The Faculty of English at the University of Oxford. Are you an aspiring novelist, playwright or screenwriter? We would love to hear from you. We are looking for talented new voices in fiction and welcome experimental writing as well as work that would appeal to a broad audience, whether on the printed page, the stage, radio, television or the big screen. The Oxford/42 New Writing Prize is open to anyone aged 18 or over living, working or studying in the UK at the closing date for submissions. The winner will receive £1500 along with professional representation by 42. Our expert panel of judges from the worlds of literature, stage and screen includes; Abby Ajayi, creator of “Riches” (ITVX and Amazon) and writer on Emmy nominated “Inventing Anna” (Netflix); Chris Chibnall, creator of “Broadchurch” (ITV), “Doctor Who” Showrunner...

  Full details  Prompt Read our monthly prompt , and craft your story (350 words max) in response. New prompts are released on the 1st of every month.  For extra support, sign up for coaching calls with award-winning writer and FSF co-founder Nathaniel  her   Submit Early, Before The 15th Submit By The 24th For FREE feedback that you can use to revise and resubmit your story before the competition closes on the 24th. The competition is open for entries until the 24th of the month, at 11:59pm PST. Win Prizes & Recognition  Stories are then reviewed alongside our guest judge for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place, as well as runner-up. Results are released on the 1st of the next month, at 8:00am PST in our Hall of Fame. Prizes ​ 1st Place - $25 Amazon Gift Card, and writing published in our Hall of Fame! ​ ​ 2nd Place -   $15 Amazon Gift Card, and writing published in our Hall of Fame! ​ ​ 3rd Place - $5 Amazon Gift Card, and writing published...

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 Full details  Since 2009, the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize has been awarded to some of the most exciting new voices in life writing, poetry, and fiction from around the world. The sixteenth edition of the prize brings an exciting new development as we open to entries in translation – across all three categories –  for the first time since the prize was founded by Dr. Susheila Nasta. We are pleased to share that the 2025 edition of the prize is now open for entries until 11.59pm BST on 30 June, 2025. Representing more of the globe than any other prize of its kind, the prize supports writers who have not yet published book-length works, with no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners of each category will receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri magazine; if a work in translation wins, the cash prize will be split equally between the author and translator.  Wasafiri 's Editor and Publishing Director Sana Goy...

  Full details  The 2025 DRF Writers Award Applications for the 2025 DRF Writers Award are now invited. £10,000 will be presented to a first-time writer whose submission demonstrates outstanding literary talent and who needs financial support to complete their work. The two runners-up will each receive £1,000.         Submissions should take the form of 15,000-20,000 words of a work in progress, fiction or non-fiction, which is not under option or contract. Applicants may not be under contract to any publisher for any work or title in any language. Applications are open to writers who have not previously published a full-length book of their own prose writing (including self-published or published on-line) excluding a collection of their own poetry.  They may have published short prose writing within a magazine/anthology. Entrants must write in the English language and reside within the British Commonwealth or Eire. Submissions should be ...

  Full details  We are currently accepting submissions for prescriptive non-fiction manuscripts that were written from a state of presence. Before submitting a proposal to us, please explore our library to get a sense for our style and the types of books we like to publish. Free excerpts from our books are available in our sample library linked in the navigation bar above. Please type your cover letter and author bio in the body of the email, and attach all other materials as a Word document (.doc or .docx) , not PDF or ODT. Materials submitted as links to an external hosting site such as Google Drive or Dropbox will be discarded. Your submission should include the following: Cover letter, including your contact information Brief author biography including the author’s credentials Synopsis of the work Brief market analysis, including an overview of the intended audience (be specific: no book is truly for "everyone") as well as the competition (i.e.,...

 Full details  The Walrus magazine publishes original reporting, essays, fiction, poetry, and visual essays in the fields of politics, the arts, science and the environment, health, business, sports, technology, and international affairs. We publish eight print issues a year and daily at thewalrus.ca. Sign up for The Walrus Weekly newsletter here . Our stories and art have won hundreds of National Magazine Awards, Digital Publishing Awards, and other awards since the magazine’s founding in 2003. For more information, see our Awards page. How To Pitch A successful pitch will provide a description of your story; evidence of original research; intended approach, format, and length; and why you are the best person to write the article. Please include samples of previous work as attachments or as links. Online essays and features published at thewalrus.ca are differentiated from those published in print by their timeliness. They maintain the same quality of origi...

 Full details  Submissions Rogue Phoenix Press is currently accepting new submissions of at least 40,000 words from authors who are willing to make a commitment to promote their book through social media, personal contacts, email and book promotion opportunities. For the complete submission guidelines and to submit a manuscript, click here: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES .   

  Full details  Our Submissions policy When you have written a book, it can be tricky to know who to contact and how. The first step is to get to know the publishers who you think would be the best fit. You’ll find information about Birlinn and our imprints here on our website but follow us on social media too – Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. Literary Agents You might want to reach out to a Literary Agent. An agent will work with you to present your book to best advantage when submitting to publishers. They have good knowledge of what publishers are looking for at any one time. You can find details of agents online or in the Writers and Artists Yearbook. Direct submission If you have a work that you really believe would fit the areas covered by our imprints (Arena, Birlinn, BC Books, John Donald and Polygon), we would like to hear from you. Please email info@birlinn.co.uk with a synopsis and sample material, and make clear why you think your work would...

 Full details  We welcome submissions of poetry, short fiction and visual arts.  See the guidelines for each by clicking the appropriate link in the menu above.  Non-contest submissions are open on a rolling basis.  Occasionally we may close submissions temporarily if there is a surplus of submissions for an issue.  We do not usually hold subs over for a later issue. Our response time is usually a month or less.  It is sometimes longer for fiction. Publication Rights:  By submitting work to  Third Wednesday , the author grants us First Right to publish the work in print and electronically (on our blog site).  Work that is accepted will be published in one print issue of  Third Wednesday . All copyrights revert to the author upon publication. Payment : We are a token paying market, usually $3 per published piece, and a print copy of the issue in which your work appears.  

 Full details    Thank you for your interest in submitting work to Poetry . We look forward to the opportunity to engage carefully with your work.  Please visit our Submittable page for our full submission guidelines and open calls for work. Important Notes We receive more than 150,000 poems each year. Due to the volume of submissions and our small staff, response time is up to eight months. We appreciate your patience. We close for submissions from June 15 to September 15 annually. Submitting to Poetry is free. Please send only one submission at a time per category and wait until you receive a response before uploading a new submission. We are eager to provide ample time and space for everyone’s voices to be considered, so additional submissions will be archived unread and will receive no response. To ensure you receive our response, set your spam filter to allow emails from submissions@poetrymagazine.org . We consider only previously unpublished work. Wo...

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 Full details  Submissions should be sent to JustKeepUpMagazine@gmail.com Submissions will be responded to within two to three months, if not sooner. There are no reading fees. Accepted pieces will be compensated as follows: $10 a story $10 a poem Payment will be made upon publication and processed through PayPal, CashApp, or Venmo, whichever is preferred. Please include which method of payment you prefer in your submission. If you live in a country that does not accept these as forms of payment, we will attempt to mail you cash or a check. Submissions are open to humans and other life forms of any nationality or planet of residence. Stories should be science fiction and/or horror (preferably both) and 100-10,000 words long. Please send one story at a time. Please include the genre of your story in your submission. Poems can be any length but the pieces you submit have to incorporate some element of science fiction and/or horror. Interp...

 Full details  Who are we? beestung is a quarterly online micro-magazine for non-binary, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers and readers, with an emphasis on intracommunity sensibilities. beestung resists the canon and all forms of bigotry. We’re particularly interested in exploration and the expansiveness and possibilities of writing and art. beestung considers poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrids, and art by creators who fall under the non-binary umbrella, genderqueer umbrella, and two-spirit umbrella. Multilingual work and work in translation is welcome. Historically underrepresented writers are encouraged to send work. beestung pays a $20 honorarium to writers and artists selected for publication. Who is non-binary? Who is genderqueer? Who is two-spirit? That’s basically up to you. If you’re unsure whether to send in work, please email beestung@sundresspublications.com .  

 Full details  Supporting Writers We offer a range of grants to professional writers needing short-term to long-term financial support. They might be facing an unexpected bill, reduced income, or unable to write due to a change in circumstances, sickness, disability, or age. The RLF also offers earning opportunities for professional writers through our Fellowship scheme who work as Fellows sharing their expertise with others. We place writers in over 100 universities across the UK, helping students to develop their academic writing.