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 Full details  ABOUT THE FESTIVAL The Hastings Book Festival celebrates writers and lovers of the written word - a welcoming and open place for everyone. Our first festival took place in August 2018, and has now become a regular and welcomed event on the local calendar. ​ Every book, story and person is unique -  very much like Hastings  - and the festival will give you the time and freedom to pause, think, connect, and be inspired. ​ We are an escape for the explorers and a catalyst for the curious – welcome to our Festival! ​ our aims To advance education by promoting and providing affordable opportunities for the appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of literature and the arts. ​ To promote and run a book festival and outreach activities primarily in Hastings and St Leonards. ​ To develop, promote and deliver a programme of activities to encourage local writers to develop their craft. ​ To work within the local community...

  Full details  Welcome to our 2025 writing competitions The categories and prizes are as follows: The main Hastings Book Festival Writing competition is for writers of short story and poetry and can be on any theme. Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world. The Sussex Prize is for writers living in East and West Sussex and one will be chosen from the shortlisted entries of each of the categories for the main competition. The Founder's Prize is for emerging writers living within a 20-mile radius of Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea. It is for works of creative non-fiction and the theme is ' REFLECTIONS '. This will be limited to one entry per person with a maximum of 50 entries overall. how to enter Please read our RULES page  for details of how to format and upload your entry (or entries) and use our dedicated entry forms to enter.    ​ SHORT STORY enter here (max 2500 words)   POETRY  enter here (max 40 lines) ...

  Full details  Key information 2025 applications open Taking place: July - November 2025 What's involved Develop a complete short film script Attend industry events & grow your network Script Lab is back, offering 10 new writers expert guidance and support to turn a short film idea into a ready-to-shoot script. Script Lab sees 10 writers apply with an idea for a short film which, over the course of 4 sessions with BFI NETWORK Talent Executives and an expert script mentor, will develop into a short script that's ready to go.  Session 1 is an in-person event covering the fundamentals of screenwriting, and a kick-off session with your mentor to explore all the different facets of your idea. As well as input from mentors, Script Lab relies on peer support so everyone can feed in their thoughts to help guide th...

  Full details  Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award The International Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Created in 1989, The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation has its own Constitution, Officers and independent Board of Trustees. Each year, The Foundation administers the Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award. The competition is designed to motivate non-American novice writers under the age of 30, and offer them the recognition and encouragement that might lead to a successful career in television scriptwriting. Entrants are asked to create a completed half-hour to one-hour English-language television drama script. The award winner receives $2,500.   See site for full regulations.    

 Full details  The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize seeks to discover talented writers on contemporary art. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on  Burlington Contemporary  and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in  The Burlington Magazine .  Since its foundation in 1903  The Burlington Magazine  has considered the art of the present to be as worthy of study as the art of the past. The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize advances our commitment to the study of contemporary art in the magazine and on  Burlington Contemporary . Designed to encourage aspiring writers, the Prize promotes clear, concise and well-structured writing that is able to navigate sophisticated ideas without recourse to over-complex language. The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize is generously funded by the Thistle Trust. ...

  Full details  In partnership with St Mungo’s Mirrorball, we are excited to launch our call for emerging poets to apply for  Clydebuilt 18.  Edwin Morgan was an internationalist, writing across forms, themes, and languages and yet he was also very much a Glasgow-based poet; it is with this spirit that St Mungo’s Mirrorball designed the Clydebuilt Verse Apprenticeship Scheme. Founded in 2007, the scheme provides intensive support for poets at an early stage of their writing careers, encouraging a greater dialogue between them and more experienced practitioners. Mentors have included poets such as Niall Campbell, John Glenday, Miriam Gamble, J. L. Williams, Gerry Cambridge, Gerry Loose, Liz Lochhead, Gerrie Fellows, A. B. Jackson, and Alexander Hutchison. The scheme recruits up to four poets who are yet to have a first full-length collection published (not counting pamphlet publication) and are not currently receiving any support with their developm...

  Full details  Established in 2017, ignition press is an award-winning poetry pamphlet press with an international outlook which publishes original, arresting poetry from emerging poets. Pamphlets published by the press have so far received six Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice selections and f ive pamphlets have also been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. The press won the Michael Marks Publishers' Award in 2021. You can find out more about the press and how we work in this interview on the Friday Poem website with our former Managing Editor, Les Robinson, or watch this short video that we produced for the Michael Marks Awards, 2021. Learn more about the 28 pamphlets we have published and their authors on our Pamphlets page . We encourage you to read our pamphlets before submitting to get an idea about the kind of work we tend to publish and how our pamphlets look and feel. Most of our pamphlets are currently on sale, so you can pick up a bargain! ...

  Full details  Deadline: Tue 30 Sep 2025 Dithering Chaps is a Dorset-based, not-for-profit publisher of poetry chapbooks (30-60 pages). Our submissions window is open for ten-page samples of your work. Open to writers worldwide. We choose the best submission received by each of our two annual cut-offs (end-March, end-September) for publication. In addition, we plan to publish the work of one previously unpublished poet who has made it to our longlists. We give brief, constructive feedback to all those submitting, whether accepted for publication or not. Submission Fee: £10 Find out more here Deadline: Tuesday 30th September 2025  

  Full details  The Hertzlab at ZKM in Karlsruhe (UNESCO City of Media Arts) in collaboration with Heidelberg UNESCO City of Literature—represented by the Cultural Office of the City of Heidelberg—cordially invites poets from UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide to apply for its new residency program. Residency Overview Duration: September 1, 2025 – November 30, 2025 Purpose: To foster the intermedial, i.e. literary engagement with ZKM’s distinguished collection of videopoetry and to inspire and/or enable professional artists to experience the rich potential of artistic expression in different media. Eligible to apply are poets (or those working professionally and poetically with language) with a clear connection (center of life and/or work) to one of the 53 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide (a complete list of all UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide can be found on their joint website www.citiesoflit.com). Benefit...

 Full details  Job Info Job Identification 12416 Locations 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH, GB (Hybrid working) Organization Edinburgh University Group Department English Literature Apply Before 05/23/2025, 11:59 PM Health and Safety Requirements No key hazards identified for this post Criminal Record Check No criminal record check required Contract Type Fixed Term Work Duration Months 24 Job Schedule Part time Grade UE06 Number of Openings 1 Job Function Teacher ...

  Full details  What’s On Explore our events, celebrating writing at its best all year round. Our Spring Festival opens its doors to children from Cambridge and beyond with a FREE children’s festival.  

  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...