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 Full details About the Award Established in 2001, The New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award is a $10,000 prize awarded each spring to a writer aged 35 or younger for a novel or a collection of short stories. Each year, five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members, writers, editors, and librarians. A panel of judges selects the winner. Founded by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, and Hannah McFarland—and made possible by an endowment created with generous gifts from Russell Abrams, Nina Collins, Hannah and Gavin McFarland, Ethan Hawke, Stephan Loewentheil, Rick Moody, Andrea Olshan and Jennifer Rudolph Walsh—this annual award recognizes the work of young authors and celebrates their accomplishments publicly, making a difference in their lives as they continue to build their careers. ​ This prize is part of the Library's Young Lions program, a membership group for people in their 20s and...

 FUll details hoose one topic and write a 500–1000 word essay. Be as honest, quirky, and free as you would like to be. Remember: this is not an essay for school. We want to hear your voice and your own opinion. Use this as an opportunity to be creative, to let your thoughts roam, and to record your observations in a clear, cohesive, and engaging manner. Your essay should be accompanied by a short biographical note where you state your date of birth, your grade/year in school or college/university and briefly introduce yourself in 100 words or fewer. Prompt A: Creativity in Exile Choose an art work, composition or choreography created by an artist in exile. Discuss the art work and how the experience of exile has shaped it. The artist can be either a contemporary artist or someone who lived in the past. For inspiration, read From Berlin with Love: Nureyev – The Price of Freedom . ...

  mouth’s next Young City Laureate. Are you between the ages of 14 and 19 years, and passionate about creative writing? We’d love to hear from you! The selected young person will receive paid writing commissions, and act as a youth voice for Plymouth. The Young City Laureate is open to any young person aged 14-19 who lives, works or studies in Plymouth. You will be a writer of either prose (fiction, creative non-fiction) or poetry. Find out how to apply here Deadline: midday on Monday 6th July 2026

  Full details  Now Open! Prize money is always a big attraction in any competition, and this year’s winners stand to walk away with some £5,000 between them. But the best prize for each of these winning entrants is the boost to confidence given by the competition judges, all of whom are successful in their own fields. That recognition of talent is worth its weight in gold. See site for details    

  Full details  Read, write, and share feedback with peers in a safe and inclusive environment Explore a variety of writing prompts in genres such as poetry, flash fiction, sci-fi, memoir, and more Enter monthly writing competitions for cash prizes Improve your skills with resources and feedback from experts and peers  

 Full details  Applications for the 2025 New Writers Awards are now open. The deadline for applications is 31 July 2024 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. Apply for the New Writers Awards 2025 How it works The Awards will run from January 2025–January 2026. 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, space and the freedom to create new work i...

 Full details  Please be sure to read and adhere to these guidelines carefully, or your submission will not be considered: ·       You must be 13+ years old to submit.  ·       Submissions can be on any topic.  Our only criteria is that your submission is written for a teen and young adult audience.  Please note our readers are aged 11-18 years old.  ·       Do not submit work that is not aimed at a teen audience . It will not be accepted. ·       You are welcome to make multiple submissions. Please check the categories below for limits on submissions. ·       Please submit  each piece in a   separate document. ·       We do not accept work that has been published elsewhere. ·       ...

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  Full details  Submissions Thanks for your interest in Blue Marble Review. Please take a look at our submission guidelines, and fill out the form below. We look forward to reading your work. What to Send: Blue Marble Review is published four times a year and accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, essays, opinion pieces, travel writing, photography and art on a rolling basis. We are looking for new work that hasn’t been published anywhere else either online or in print.  Fiction: Send us your stories! Flash, short stories, hybrid forms—all in 1500 words or less. A maximum of three pieces per submission. Nonfiction: We accept memoir, personal essays, travel adventures, and have been known to publish the occasional research paper and book review. One to two pieces per submission please.(1500 word limit) Poetry: Up to three poems per submission. Art: Four pieces of artwork (scanned, jpeg fo...

Full details Submissions Please check our schedule for detailed submission window timing. We do not accept submissions year-round. Cast of Wonders is a young adult short fiction market, open to stories up to 6,000 words in length. We’re dedicated to publishing fiction that reflects the entire spectrum of the human experience. We acknowledge the realities of unconscious bias and make our best effort to account for it during our review process. Read our full statement in support of lowering publishing’s barriers to entry for authors from historically underrepresented backgrounds below. All submissions must be anonymous.  Non-anonymous manuscripts will be rejected unread, and no permission granted to resubmit. Further detail is provided below. One of our goals is to further the education of new writers of any age. These submission guidelines are lengthy and extensive. They aim to explain what we’re looking for, what we’ll do with your story, and where ...

Full details We hope you’ll share your writing with PANK. Since we are not a paying venue, we understand if you cannot, but we hope you will. We’re invested in sharp, honest, beautiful writing. Strangeness is a  small   god . We’re particularly interested in reading creative non-fiction and fiction, but please send poems, too. You may send (some combination of) 3 to 5  poems , a piece of fiction, or a piece non-fiction prose up to 7500 words. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please do us the courtesy of informing us right away if your work is accepted elsewhere. We are now accepting submissions for our Future Fridays – Artists 18 and Under. [ pankmagazine.submittable.com ] .

Full details Submission Guidelines It doesn’t sound flippant, we hope, if we say that the most meaningful guide is the magazine itself. We’ve published it continually since 1966 so, to some extent, past is prologue. While we hope we will always be open to new ideas, it seems unlikely that we will develop an interest in formula romance or sing-song verse. Sample copies may be ordered directly from us ($14.00 including postage) and are also available at many bookstores and libraries. Writers who send work to publications they’ve never seen are usually wasting time, money and effort, theirs and ours. Magazine Submissions As a rule, send up to six poems or one story at a time. We rarely publish non-fiction, but there are exceptions. We do not publish reviews. Manuscripts must be legible and be sure that includes your name and address. Enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope of adequate size or we cannot reply. If you don’t want your work returned, please make ...

Full details Entry Criteria: Entries should be 700 words of under If you are under 16 years old, you should enter with permission of a parent/guardian. Please note: we will retain entry details on file for 12 months after the publishing of ‘Generation Lockdown Writes.’ Information will not be shared with third parties.

Full details Our Creative Writing Ink competition is open to writers of any nationality or age. Free to enter. Closing Date: Last date of every month. We’re looking for poetry, up to 40 lines. Open theme. You just have to submit your poem to us to info@creativewritingink.co.uk with “Creative Writing Ink Monthly Competition” in the subject line. Please paste your poem into the body of your email, no attachments. Entries should be in English. You can submit one entry every month. Please feel free to resubmit your work every month. We do not accept previously published material. We will select one winner per month. While we appreciate all entries, only the winning and shortlisted entrants will be contacted.  We will publish the winner’s details on our website and our Facebook page. Prize:  Publication on our website and an Amazon  voucher worth £10.  If you are under the age of 18, you must have the consent of a parent or guardian over 1...

You are invited to enter the ‘In my country’ Poetry Competition for your chance to win one of the prizes. Your entry of one poem of 30 lines or less, along with the details on the entry form, will be accepted from 30 September to 31 December 2019. About the judges Jackie Kay is one of Britain’s best-known poets, and in 2016 she was named the new Makar, National Poet of Scotland. Malika Booker is an international writer who has worked with the BBC, the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. James Procter (Newcastle University) and Gemma Robinson (University of Stirling) complete the judging panel. They edited Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets with Jackie (Bloodaxe Books, 2012). About us This competition is part of the Out of Bounds Poetry Project, a collaborative project based at the universities of Newcastle and Stirling. We work with partners to support researchers, writers and schools as they explore how poetry helps us ...

Established in 2000 by New Writing North, the Northern Writers’ Awards supports work-in-progress by new, emerging and established writers across the North of England. The Awards support writers creatively as they develop their work towards publication, as well as helping them to progress professionally and navigate their way through the publishing industry. The awards support both new and established writers to develop their work towards publication and to progress their careers as writers. For new writers, winning a Northern Writers’ Award can help to connect you to the publishing industry and to develop your work towards publication; for established writers, awards can help to buy time to write to support the development of new work and offer creative opportunities. With high-profile literary judges and support and interest from across the publishing industry, the awards are now recognised nationally as a major talent-spotting programme that identifies and suppor...