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 Full details  New Writers Poetry Competition 2025 Welcome to the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025. Open to poets from anywhere in the world, we’re offering our biggest prize pot ever of £1,800, with a top prize of £1,200. The top six poets will win cash prizes and will be published on our website and in the next issue of the New Writers Anthology . The deadline is 23.59 (UK time) on Thursday 17th July 2025 and 10% of the competition proceeds will be split between two UK-registered charities , First Story and The Funzi & Bodo Trust. ENTER NOW New Writers Poetry Competition 2025 – At A Glance: Deadline:  23:59 (UK time) on Thursday 17th July 2025 Entry Fee:   £10 per entry (£18 for two entries or £26 for three entries, when submitted together) Prizes:  1st:  £1,200 ; 2nd: £300 ; 3rd: £150 ; 4th to 6th: £50 each Publication:  The six winning entries will be published on the NewWriters.org.uk website and in the next New Writers Anthology ...

Full details  his year, our little organisation turns the big 3 0! We're taking the opportunity to reflect on the brilliant writers, team members, partners, participants, projects and programmes that have formed part of our story so far, and we'd love to hear from you. Do you have memories of taking part in Spread the Word activities from years, even decades ago? Are there people or projects that have stayed in your mind? Has Spread the Word had an impact on where you are today? If you have a few minutes to spare for some reminiscing, we'd really appreciate it. Sharing your memories will help us to tell our story and articulate our impa ct. Which in turn will help us to reach funders and secure the organisation's future. This opportunity will close on Monday 8 September 2025. If you have any questions about the campaign, please get in touch with Alice Sewell, our interim Head of Communications, via alice@spreadtheword.org.uk. kaleem.kennedy@googlemail.com Switch accoun...

  Full details  The 2025 Competition is now open. Entry Fee: £5 **NEW CLOSING DATE: 1 AUGUST 2025 ** Complete stories up to 3,500 words First Prize: The winning story will be published in Whispering Gallery and on www.historiamag.com The writer will receive  £500 and be offered mentoring sessions from an author and agent . Highly Commended: Two further highly commended writers will also be offered mentoring. Shortlisted:  All six shortlisted writers will have their stories published as an ebook / print on demand edition by the HWA and Dorothy Dunnett Society via Amazon. Each shortlisted author will receive two print copies. Timings: ** Submissions now close on 1 AUGUST 2025 at midnight GMT ** Longlist announced on 24 September Shortlisted, highly commended and winning stories announced on 1 October . It looks like we haven’t got the word out enough on the DDS / HWA Short Story Competition this y...

 Full details  Submissions We hope to publish some of the best debut poetry and fiction in the UK. Could you be one of the authors we're looking for? We are delighted to announce our inaugural call for poetry chapbook submissions. A call for fiction chapbook submissions will follow in 2026. ​ Eligibility:  You must be resident in the UK or the Republic of Ireland.  You must not have previously published a pamphlet/chapbook or full-length collection of poetry. You are welcome to submit the work simultaneously to other publishers--just withdraw the work immediately should you learn it's been accepted elsewhere.    Initial Submission: Three poems or up to five pages representative of your manuscript. A cover letter up to one page introducing yourself and your work​. Submit the cover letter and poems as a single document in a readable font of 12-14 point. ​ Longlist Process: Selected poets will be invited to submit a full ma...

  Full details  You don’t need a track record as a poet generally or a children’s poet specifically; we are keen to encourage as many people as possible to experience the important joy of writing poetry for children! Please read the guidelines below before submitting your poems. Please send up to three unpublished poems on the theme of ‘Surprise’ by 31 July 2025 . You are always welcome to interpret the theme as you wish. We strongly recommend reading a previous issue of Tyger Tyger Magazine to get a feel for it. We always appreciate knowing which poems in the magazine you have recently enjoyed. Poems should be up to 40 lines long and aimed at readers aged 7-11 years old. Please include a short covering note and a third-person biography of up to 80 words with your submission. Please paste your poems into the body of an email and send them to tygertygermagazine@gmail.com . We welcome submissions from everyone, eve...

 Full details  Enter the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival’s 2025 writing competition with new writing inspired by mental health and our theme of ‘Comfort & Disturb’. The writing competition is one of SMHAF’s most enduring successes, providing an opportunity for first-time writers to be published alongside established names. The awards ceremony helps us to discover what our festival is really about, as people from across Scotland and further afield take inspiration from our theme in poignant, powerful, personal and often ingenious and surprising ways. Writing programme comes to Aberdeen This year’s awards event will take place in Aberdeen during SMHAF 2025, with shortlisted writers invited to read from their work on the night. The Aberdeen event is the second of our writing awards events to tour to new locations in Scotland, following a fantastic evening last year at V&A Dundee. As always, the competition is open to everyone but this year we particula...

 Full details   Where the Land Forgets Itself is looking for poetry that speaks to the working class experience of seaside towns and the sea. We like work that is literary yet unpretentious.  Each poet selected will recieve £100 for their work, as well as a physical copy of the anthology.  We cannot consider work that has already been published elsewhere.  Selected poems will appear in a print anthology, a digital anthology and may appear, with full credit, in marketing material relating to the project.  Submission deadline 15th August 2025 See web site for applciaitln form  

  Full details  Writing Our Legacy and the South Downs National Park Authority are seeking to commission 6 writers to produce a creative response inspired by a priority species for the South Downs landscape, with the key species drawn from bees, bats, birds and butterflies, worth over £3000.  The commission comprises one written work in the form of a poem or similar, plus one digital output to disseminate that written work. The digital output could be a short film, audio recording or soundscape. For example, you could write a short poem and then create a film to accompany it as a spoken word piece.  Your written work will then be used this autumn to inspire children in schools across and around the South Downs to try creative writing as part of a writing competition.  The Species Stories commission is a partnership between Writing Our Legacy and the South Downs National Park Authority. It is funded by the Foyle Foundation and South Dow...