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 Full details  Applications for the 2026 New Writers Awards are currently open. The deadline for all applications is Wednesday 24 September 2025 at noon. The awards are free to apply to, all travel expenses are covered and awardees are chosen by a panel of judges. We have an Access Fund to help support our awardees with any barriers they may face. The programme is flexible, and we work closely with awardees to help them participate as fully as possible. Read the category guidelines and apply How it works The Awards will run from January 2026 – January 2027. During the programme, awardees receive: A £2,500 cash award, allowing them to focus on their work (the bursary will be paid in two instalments) Tailored personal development opportunities, which can include mentoring from writers and industry professionals PR, performance, social media and presentation training  The opportunity to showcase work to publishers and agents  A week-long retreat offering time,...

  Full details  What's on offer? The winner of the New Writers’ Prize will receive a publishing contract with #Merky Books. All shortlisted writers will also be invited to our Writers’ Camp, where they will get the chance to participate in writing workshops, panel talks, editorial one-to-ones and meet the #Merky Books team. The prize will also aim to provide all applicants with the tools, information and access they need to develop their ideas, progress their writing and set off on the path to publication. Who are we looking for? The prize is open to Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic writers who are aged between 18 and 35 and residing in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Applicants will need to be unpublished and un-agented in order to apply. If you have a manuscript you are working on, or an idea ready to be put onto paper, we want to hear from you. This year, we are looking for the next William Rayfet Hunter, Hafsa Zayyan and Rivers Solomon. We are focusing on...

  Full details  The Rebecca Swift Foundation and Fly on the Wall Press have joined forces to invite submissions for a powerful new anthology celebrating the complexity, resilience, and creativity of women’s lives today. Curated by acclaimed poet and critic Jennifer Wong, the anthology will feature poetry and creative non-fiction by twelve UK-based women poets, from emerging voices to established names. Woman, Mapped will explore the journey of becoming a woman: the joys, the pain, and the defining moments that shape us. Works will be selected on the basis of originality, voice and craft. Bringing together poems and essays that poignantly map out each stage in a woman’s life. The aim is to curate a collection that scans the breadth of lived experiences across identities, cultures, and generations. Editor Jennifer Wong said: “I’m thrilled to be working with the Rebecca Swift Foundation on this anthology. We’re committed to creating space for a ...

  Full details  We’re now accepting submissions for the 2026 Festival - an exciting opportunity for writers to showcase bold, original storytelling on stage. Whether you're an emerging writer or an experienced playwright, we want to read your work. Submissions should be original short plays written for the stage, with the potential to be performed as part of the festival. We’re particularly interested in scripts that are fresh, thought-provoking, and well-suited to small-cast productions. We welcome submissions from writers of all ages and levels of experience. As part of our commitment to inclusivity and representation, we particularly encourage submissions from people from the Global Majority, D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people, LGBTQ+ communities, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds or other underrepresented groups. CRITERIA FOR SUBMISSIONS WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Open to anyone resident in the UK and Ireland, and to UK and Irish nationals living abroad Entries...

 Full details  Literature Works and our partners are delighted to announce the call out for the Page of Plymouth writer-in-residence.  We are looking for a poet, writer, storyteller, spoken word artist, lyricist or playwright to play a central creative role in a unique project funded by a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.  Working in Plymouth with local people, the writer-in-residence will explore the stories and ordinary lives of people in late 16th-century Plymouth, focusing on a documented lost play, ‘Page of Plymouth’ by Ben Jonson and Thomas Dekker.  The Page of Plymouth writer-in-residence will be contracted for a total of ten days residency activity from October 2025 to April 2026 . The fee offered is £4,500 , including travel and subsistence averaging £150 per day. Download the recruitment pack for more information and details of how to apply. recruitment pack Closing date for applications: midnight on Su...

Full details  Good news from What Books Press: We now set aside certain times of the year as open submission periods. The first thing to do is to visit  our Submittable page  to see if we are currently accepting submissions.  If we are, send us a query letter, along with a sample of 10 to 20 pages. We are especially intrigued by works that challenge and hybridize genres, that play with convention, that make the reader sit up at vivid passages. Additionally, the majority of our authors are, like What Books Press, Californian, and we always take a keen interest in work that originates in, mirrors, fantasizes on, disassembles, et cetera, our special left coast circumstances. Please consider submitting if this geographical and cultural dimension of the press resonates with your own circumstances. Whether our submission period is open right now or not, be sure to click the catalogue button on the left and go through our list in order to fine-tune your underst...

 Full details Prizes | Deadlines | Entry fees | How to enter | T&Cs Established to inspire creativity, great writing and to provide a platform for publication. The Anthology  Flash Fiction Competition is open to original and previously unpublished flash fiction pieces on any theme or genre in the English language by writers of any nationality, living anywhere in the world. We are looking for writing that is clever and unique, inspires us, and crafts a compelling story.  Open to both new and established writers, articles submitted must not exceed 250 words. Writers can submit as many entries as they wish. Each submission will require a separate entry form and is subject to a separate entry fee.  It is not a requirement but is advisable to refer to  Anthology  magazine or purchase a copy, before submitting your work so that you can see the type of material we publish. Subscriptions and single copies are available...

 Full details  The Michael Round Prize opens for entries on 1 June! The competition is… free to enter, for stories up to 1,200 words on the theme ‘Far and Wide’, offering prizes of £100 and £50 open until 30 September 2025. Please read the full rules here before entering. Send your entries, formatted as Word or PDF, to writerscroydon@gmail.com . Discover more from Croydon Writers Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Share this: X Facebook Related A Croydon Writing Competition? Jan 8, 2025 In "Announcements" National Poetry Competition Jul 15, 2025 In "Competitions" It’s Beatrix Potter’s Birthday! Jul 28, 2025 In "Announcements" ...

 Full details  Submissions will be responded to within three to four 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 can be of any length, although we tend to accept shorter pieces. We also are looking for pieces that are more on the experimental and weirder side of the horror/science fiction spectrum. 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 hav...

  Full details I am open to a variety of genres and subject matter. The submission does NOT have to be about teaching or learning to be accepted in Teach. Write. I also welcome student writing. It is in your best interest to be familiar with the type of work that I publish. Please see the current issue or read past editions in the archives section of the website. No previous publication experience is necessary. I am looking for work in the following categories: Flash Fiction, any theme or genre except erotica, extremely violent pieces or those laden with profanity. Under 1,000 words Short Fiction, any theme or genre, 1,000-5,000 words, ditto on the exceptions Poetry, any theme or genre (note exceptions above)–up to 100 lines (limit submissions to three poems, please) Creative non-fiction–up to 2,000 words (same exceptions as those above) Short dramas or screenplays–10 pages of dialogue or less (same exceptions) Write Your Own–writing or poetry inspired by your own wri...

 Full details  About submissions We accept submissions from individuals who belong to the queer, trans, and/or gender variant communities. All info about our current calls for entry, including submission guidelines, can be found on the linked page for each call. Please only send submissions via Duosuma unless you have been specifically given instructions to do otherwise. If you have accessibility concerns, please reach out and we’ll make every effort to accommodate your submission. For written work, we offer a handful of optional add-ons related to feedback and expedited response times. Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to provide feedback on submissions unless it has been selected and paid for at the time of submission. We always accept reprints if you have the rights to give them, including work published on personal blogs, websites, and social media. Also, in the case of web portfolios, Patreon & similar services, and social media, we don’t...

  Full details  Advice for authors The limited number of new titles appearing on the Heart of Albion web site may give the impression I am not commissioning many new titles. This is not true! While economic matters are generally challenging I am being more selective than usual about what I take on. But clearly I need to publish new books to keep going! Heart of Albion titles are always written in an 'accessible' style, although this does not mean 'dumbed down'. When commissioning titles I send out an 'Advice to authors' document that outlines the preferred ways to develop ideas; guidance on the finer details of 'style', etc.; and otherwise makes the transition from your MS to final typeset as smooth as possible. Do you think you have an idea for a book or booklet that Heart of Albion might publish? Well, before posting all 500 pages of your manuscript, please think about the following topics: Is the subject matter non-fiction and ai...

  Full details  Submissions Thank you for your interest in The Quarto Group. Each of our imprints has its own editorial focus and fits into one of the categories below. Please take a moment to determine where your book best fits. Submitting to the category will send your idea to multiple imprints. We will review your submission as soon as possible and will contact you if we would like to discuss it further. Due to the high volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to personally respond unless we are interested in pursuing the project. If you have not heard from us within three months of submitting your project, please assume we decided it was not the right fit for our publishing program. ...

 Full details  What We Want Science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes ranging anywhere from 2,000 to 15,000 words. Although any science fiction subgenre is fair game, our tastes lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre. FF prefers character-driven stories, and often skews towards quiet, reflective pieces. If the primary tone of your story is one of high adventure or humour, it’s probably not the right fit for FF. That said, quality always outstrips genre preference in terms of importance, so feel free to send us anything that even vaguely resembles science fiction. We don’t accept reprints. Work written by humans. We have no interest in AI-written stories. We’re always interested in publishing work by marginalized voices. If that’s you, and you feel comfortable doing so, please call this out in your cover letter. What We Pay We pay 4 cents (CAD) per word, up to a maximum...

  Full details  Submission Guidelines Theme: This year is the 250 th anniversary of J. M. W. Turner’s birth. To commemorate this, SaveAs Writers invite poems and stories on the theme of ‘Facing the Storm’. The theme of stormy seascapes can be freely interpreted, with or without reference to Turner’s life and art. Accepting poems of up to 60 lines in length. Accepting prose of up to 3500 words. Entries are judged anonymously. The author’s name and address should not appear on the poem or short story itself. Judges:  Poems will be judged by Mara Adamitz Scrupe. Short stories will be judged by Victoria Grainger. Entry fee: For each poem, £4 or £10 for 3 entries. For each story, £5 or £12 for 3 entries. Prizes: The Canterbury Christchurch Poetry Prize of £200 is awarded to the poetry winner, with the additional prizes of £100 for second place and £50 for third. The Canterbury Festival Fiction Prize of £200 will be awarded for the winning story, with the additi...

  Full details  McNidder & Grace Limited was established in 2011 by publisher Andy Peden Smith and he now works with his partner Caroline Peden Smith running the business together.  Both Andy and Caroline are publishers with an extensive background and experience in publishing high quality and award-winning books. We specialise in non-fiction and fiction titles for adults. With a particular emphasis on popular culture, our non-fiction list includes books on photography, art, music, biography, history, country pursuits and more recently health and well-being. We are also very proud of our popular Railway Journeys in Art Poster to Poster series, a nine-volume set of engaging, beautifully illustrated railway travel books in collaboration with the National Railway Museum and Swann Galleries, New York.  Our fiction list concentrates primarily on Crime and Thrillers to include the best-selling Torquil MacLeod Malmö series.   

 Full details  ** Please put the anthology you're submitting to, and the word count of the story in the subject line of the email. **   ** If your story is a reprint, please put in parentheses the previous publication/year under the byline in your document. **   Payment for accepted stories will be $5 USD per 1000 words for all current anthologies. Payments occur via PayPal, so please have a PayPal account into which we can pay you. We will also provide you with a digital copy (epub and pdf) of the finished manuscript. (Paperback and hard cover editions will be available via Amazon.)   We're looking for speculative fiction across all anthologies (unless otherwise specified). That includes everything from high fantasy to hard scifi and anything in between.   We do accept reprints, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions, though these will slow down our response time.   Story lengths should be anywhere from flash-length to abou...

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 Full details  iving entries from writers from far and wide. Details Our Sponsor About the Judge   Prizes Who Can Submit? Submission Requirements IMPORTANT: No Identifying Information Submit Online Submit via Postage Competition Contact Info Submission form will populate AFTER payment is received Submit Story (2500 word limit) > Submit Story (5000 word limit) > Details Judge :  Kate Nash, Literary Agent Sponsor :  World Privilege Plus Entry fee :  £10 for stories up to 2,500 words. £15 for stories up to 5,000 words Word Limit :  2,500 (£10), 5,000 (£15) Deadline (Closing Date) :  12 Midnight GMT, Sunday 30 th  November 2025 The shortlist will be announced on Friday 27 th  March 2026 Winners will be announced on Friday 10 th  April 2026. Writers on low incomes are encouraged to email  hello@inkspotpublishing.com  and will be able to enter their stories for free. Proof of status may be required. About the Spo...