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 Full details  Contest guidelines below. READ CAREFULLY . Failure to do so may result in disqualification! Please note that we have additional perks and leeway for MEMBERS , highlighted in GREEN , granting access to special content and bonuses in the submission process, plus it helps keep the lights on and pay all yee writers! Speaking of 'Members', (Imagine some yokel hollering from the back of a city council meeting, "Point of clarity!") we have two terms that you should note the difference: "Subscriber" means our free, basic subscription. "Member" means our paid, annual membership. Boom, now you're informed. Why submit to us?       - WE PAY WRITERS FAIRLY. It’s hard work writing good stories, and you deserve to get paid. Or maybe you don’t and you’re just duping us? Regardless, we pay 8 cents a word (with a $500 cap), and 2 cents a word for reprints.       - NO SUBMISSION FEES. Nobody's getting rich off $3 ...

  Full details  Share your words with us and the World. Welcome to… THE BEDFORD COMPETITION, a nonprofit group, runs annual international short story and poetry competitions for anyone in the world over 17 years of age. There are prizes totalling £4,600 and all winning and shortlisted stories and poems are published as an anthology. SHORT STORY & POETRY COMPETITION MAIN PRIZES – £1500 2nd PRIZES – £300 3rd PRIZES – £200   CYGNATURE SHORT STORY & POETRY PRIZES  – £200 The University of Bedfordshire is sponsoring the  Cygnature Prizes for young writers aged 17-25 yrs   BEDFORD SHORT STORY & POETRY PRIZES – £100 All submissions are entered in the Main Prize. Latest News Don’t miss your opportunity to support a local Bedford writer who is hosting the launch of  Rose Diell’s  new book at th...

  Full details  Prompt Read our monthly prompt , and craft your story (350 words max) in response. New prompts are released on the 1st of every month.  For extra support, sign up for coaching calls with award-winning writer and FSF co-founder Nathaniel  her   Submit Early, Before The 15th Submit By The 24th For FREE feedback that you can use to revise and resubmit your story before the competition closes on the 24th. The competition is open for entries until the 24th of the month, at 11:59pm PST. Win Prizes & Recognition  Stories are then reviewed alongside our guest judge for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place, as well as runner-up. Results are released on the 1st of the next month, at 8:00am PST in our Hall of Fame. Prizes ​ 1st Place - $25 Amazon Gift Card, and writing published in our Hall of Fame! ​ ​ 2nd Place -   $15 Amazon Gift Card, and writing published in our Hall of Fame! ​ ​ 3rd Place - $5 Amazon Gift Card, and writing published...

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  Full details  The 2025 DRF Writers Award Applications for the 2025 DRF Writers Award are now invited. £10,000 will be presented to a first-time writer whose submission demonstrates outstanding literary talent and who needs financial support to complete their work. The two runners-up will each receive £1,000.         Submissions should take the form of 15,000-20,000 words of a work in progress, fiction or non-fiction, which is not under option or contract. Applicants may not be under contract to any publisher for any work or title in any language. Applications are open to writers who have not previously published a full-length book of their own prose writing (including self-published or published on-line) excluding a collection of their own poetry.  They may have published short prose writing within a magazine/anthology. Entrants must write in the English language and reside within the British Commonwealth or Eire. Submissions should be ...

  Full details  We are currently accepting submissions for prescriptive non-fiction manuscripts that were written from a state of presence. Before submitting a proposal to us, please explore our library to get a sense for our style and the types of books we like to publish. Free excerpts from our books are available in our sample library linked in the navigation bar above. Please type your cover letter and author bio in the body of the email, and attach all other materials as a Word document (.doc or .docx) , not PDF or ODT. Materials submitted as links to an external hosting site such as Google Drive or Dropbox will be discarded. Your submission should include the following: Cover letter, including your contact information Brief author biography including the author’s credentials Synopsis of the work Brief market analysis, including an overview of the intended audience (be specific: no book is truly for "everyone") as well as the competition (i.e.,...

 Full details  The Walrus magazine publishes original reporting, essays, fiction, poetry, and visual essays in the fields of politics, the arts, science and the environment, health, business, sports, technology, and international affairs. We publish eight print issues a year and daily at thewalrus.ca. Sign up for The Walrus Weekly newsletter here . Our stories and art have won hundreds of National Magazine Awards, Digital Publishing Awards, and other awards since the magazine’s founding in 2003. For more information, see our Awards page. How To Pitch A successful pitch will provide a description of your story; evidence of original research; intended approach, format, and length; and why you are the best person to write the article. Please include samples of previous work as attachments or as links. Online essays and features published at thewalrus.ca are differentiated from those published in print by their timeliness. They maintain the same quality of origi...