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  Full details  Marking five years of the Joffe Books Prize, submissions are now open Until 30 September 2025 for unagented crime writers of colour. The Joffe Books Prize 2025 is open for submissions! Now in its fifth year, the Joffe Books Prize was created to discover and launch unagented crime writers from Black, Asian, Indigenous, and minority ethnic backgrounds. It calls on crime fiction writers and covers all genres : electrifying psychological thrillers, to cosy mysteries, gritty police procedurals, twisty chillers, unputdownable s...

  Full details  The Passionfruit Poetry Prize is back for 2025! Judge: Amlanjyoti Goswami The theme is love – and it’s yours to interpret as broadly, as interestingly, and as tenuously as you wish. 1st prize £600 2nd prize £100 3rd prize £60 9 × COMMENDED POEMS £10 EACH All prizewinning poems will also be published in a special issue of The Passionfruit Review . You can see our last contest special issue here . Deadline for submissions 23:59 (BST) 30th September 2025 A Note from the judge Love doesn’t always have to be about roses and thorns. There are other ways too. Sometimes it comes with guns blazing. At other times, silently, without calling attention. You can also write about roses and thorns. ABOUT THE JUDGE Amlanjyoti Goswami ‘s new book of poetry,  A Different Story , has just been published by Poetrywala. He has written two widely reviewed books,  River Wedding  and  Vital Signs , published by Poetrywala.  Riv...

 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 The Anthology  Flash Fiction Competition is open to original and previously unpublished flash fiction pieces on any theme or genre in the English language by writers of any nationality, living anywhere in the world.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  How to Enter Please submit your entry to  submissions@crowvus.com  – you’ll receive an automatic response, which will be your receipt. This is an unmanned inbox. For those of you who have entered in earlier years (welcome back to the Crowvus Nest – we love returning writers!), please take note of this different email address. Do not use the online form. Entries should be emailed as attachments (.doc, .docx please!). Please don’t copy and paste your story into the email. Please make sure your covering email includes the following 6 things: your name (pen names are allowed) your address your email (if different to the one you send it from) the title of your story your Order Number (entries can be bought from our online shop here ) OR FOR CHILDREN, your age the word count of your story If you have any queries or problems, please contact  the_team@crowvus.com Make sure you’ve read the T&Cs – they are different to p...

 Full details  Short Story 1st Prize: £1000 2nd Prize: £100 3rd Prize: £50 Worldwide publication for all shortlisted entries. ONE Short Story   per entry (1000 – 5000 words) Preferred format: Arial 12p 1.5 line spacing Entry fee £10  ( £5 for gold members) Your name must NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript itself, as the contest is judged anonymously. Submission Deadline: 30th September 2025 Enter Now Sponsored By Gold Member Entry  

  Full details   2025 International Literary Prize  This year's competition features cash prizes,  Fellowship of the Royal Society for Arts, p ublication for all shortlisted entries in our annual anthologies, a televised award ceremony and an   inspiring new theme song. Categories included Short Stories, Poetry, Scriptwriting and Songwriting. Entry fee £10  ( £5 for gold members) Sponsored by the University Centre Grimsby Art Council England and The Royal Society for Arts,  this annual writing competition, now in its ninth year, is open to entries from around the world. Listen to the theme song Short Story 1st Prize: £1000 2nd Prize: £100 3rd Prize: £50 Worldwide publication for all shortlisted entries. ONE Short Story   per entry (1000 – 5000 words) Preferred format: Arial 12p 1.5 line spacing Entry fee £10  ( £5 for gold members) Your name must NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript itself, as the contest is judged anony...

  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  Think you’ve got a story worth telling? The Writers' College Short Story Competition is your chance to prove it! We're on the lookout for fresh, original voices in fiction. Open to unpublished writers or those with fewer than four publications, from any country. Win cash prizes, industry recognition, and a chance to impress our expert judges.