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  Full details  DETAILS $7,000 IN CASH AWARDS!   Literary competition categories: Fiction —Short stories only (2,500 words maximum) Nonfiction —Article or essay (2,500 words maximum) Poetry —(Up to three poems per entry, not to exceed five pages total per entry) One-Act Play —(Professional format required; limited to fifteen pages, double-spaced) Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by March 1, 2026. Entrants will be notified by e-mail or by postcard (included with entry form) when entries are received. Permission: By entering, winners grant permission to the Morris Museum of Art for publication or readings related to the competition and awards ceremony. Who can enter: Writers ages 18 and older who reside in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington D.C. Entry fees: $15 per entry for fiction, nonfiction, one-act play, and poetry . (For poetry, o...

  Full details Write about a scar. Physical or invisible. This could be a scar you have, or one for a character you make up. You can do this in any form you like: story, song, script, or poem, as long as it's 250 words or fewer. The writer of the most compelling story will receive a $400 Gotham credit, a $50 gift certificate to Bookshop, and publication on our website. Plus bragging rights—you'll be the first winner of Gotham's inaugural teen writing contest. Two finalists will each receive a free Gotham class of their choosing and publication on our website.  Some examples: When I was nine, I cut my thumb on a paring knife. It didn’t hurt. Amazed, I watched the skin along my knuckle curl into itself like paper. If it was a second, it felt longer. Time stretched out before me as I peered inside myself. There was no blood. The bone was shiny and clean. I was surprised by how immaculate it looked. Then the flesh turned red and flooded out. Still, it...

  Full details  The Letter Review Prize – Now Open The Letter Review Prize is an internationally celebrated event, offered every three months in the categories of Short Fiction , Nonfiction, Poetry , and Books . We publish our winners, and award over $16,000 USD annually to writers, meaning our prize is among the highest paying literary prizes administered by a literary journal in the world. Enter Here Letter Review emerges as a hallowed space where words bleed, mend, and soar. Within its pages, we find not just tales, but the delicate pulse of memories, interwoven with the age-old craft of storytelling and vulnerability. To have my voice cradled in such a sacred place is a serenade to the moonlit hours where prose meets poetry. A profound honor. The Letter Review stands as a monument of writing wisdom and talent. Being part of this mosaic of narrative and verse is a true honor. Frederick Joseph : two-time New York Times bestselling author, activ...

 Full details  The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2025/26 OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS Winning story £2500 | shortlist £200 | longlist £50 book vouchers + subscription Key information and Dates ——— Entry cost: £11 (plus 200 low-earner free entries ) ——— CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 8 November 2025 ——— For full information (including prize announcements and our judges), head here ——— For our most COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS , head here ——— For full terms and conditions , head here ——— to ente...

 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  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...

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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...

 Full details  he Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition is for both published and unpublished writers. Prize winning and shortlisted writers will be published in our latest anthology due in December . We are looking for short stories that respond in any way to the PROMPT: SWITCH We accept any length of story up to 6k words . We’re looking for writers who have exciting voices and can move us - that can happen in any genre of prose. You don't need to use the word SWITCH in the title or the main body of the work, but you can. We do expect your work to be inspired by the word in some way. Any way. NOTE: if you write romance, please make it ‘closed door’ (not explicit erotica). Sadly, we’re not accepting screenplays, plays or poetry for this competition.  DEADLINE: 23:59GMT - 31st October 2025 ENTRY : £9 per story PRIZES: First Place writer will be offered a prize of £100 and publication Second Place writer will be offered a prize of £50 and publication Third Pl...

  Full details  Overview Are you a first or second-generation migrant, an asylum seeker, refugee, international student or international worker who has lived or currently lives in the UK? TogetherintheUK is hosting a ‘ Then & Now ’ writing competition focussing on your or your family’s migration story.  We want to hear about the traditions you carried with you or have grown up with, the gains and the losses, the moments of joy and challenge as you built your new life.  We want to hear about how you built your life in the UK:  how you helped shape your community, contributed to the economy in all kinds of ways through work and volunteering and how you or your family navigated living in a new country.  You can submit a poem or lyrics to a song, an essay or a short story. We have a competitio...