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The Pushcart Prize Full Details Submissions open on 1 October 2025 Submissions close on 1 December 2025 Award Eligibility and Criteria for Entry The nominations may be any combination of poetry, short stories, essays, memoirs or stand-alone excerpts from novels.  We do not accept nominations via email. Please send one copy of each work. Please do not send entire books or journals Nominations must have been published (or scheduled to be published) in the current calendar year. No entry fee or rom to fill out. No monetary prize only recognition

The Jhalak Prize About https://www.jhalakprize.com/terms-and-conditions First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize awards seek to celebrate books by writers of colour in the UK and Ireland. The Jhalak Children's and YA Prize accepts books for children, teens and young adults including picture books, chapter books, graphic novels, poetry, non-fiction, and all other genres by writers of colour and aimed at younger readers. Our annual awards comprise of: 1. Jhalak Prose Prize 2. Jhalak Poetry Prize 3. Jhalak Children's & Young Adult Prize All shortlisted authors receive one-year complimentary membership of The London Library. Each winner receives a two-year complimentary membership.  Entry requirements and eligibility  The Jhalak Prize has no entry fee to participate. There's no age limit, the authors do not have to be British and they can have published other books before. Our awards only accept entries published in the UK and Ireland by writers of colour. Open to any ...

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 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  Ink of Ages Fiction Prize If you write historical or mythology-inspired short fiction, you can enter a story under 2,000 words to win some great prizes from World History Encyclopedia and Oxford University Press! Our contest is free to enter and we accept submissions in English from anywhere in the world. Submissions open 28 July – 29 Aug 2025 Ink of Ages Fiction Prize is run by World History Encyclopedia and generously sponsored by Oxford University Press .      

 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...