SaveAs Writers’ International Writing Competition 2025

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Submission Guidelines

  • Theme: This year is the 250th 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 additional prizes of £100 for second and £50 for third.

Deadline: Midnight, 31st August 2025.

All details, all submissions via their website.

 

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