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COMPETITIONS
KING LEAR PRIZES
WILBUR & SMITH FOUNDATION AWARDS
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Spring Competition now open. Deadline for entries is Friday 19 March 2021.
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
WILBUR & SMITH FOUNDATION AWARDS
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY PRIZE COMPETITION LAUNCHED.
1st Prize: £500
Runner-up: £250
3rd Prize: £100
Wild Writing Prize: £500 and Wild Writing masterclasses
3 x Runners-up: Wild Writing masterclasses
Closing date: 31 March 2021
WILBUR & SMITH FOUNDATION AWARDS
WILBUR & SMITH FOUNDATION AWARDS
H E BATES SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Four competitions are now open with submission deadline dates.
The categories are as follows:
- Best Published Novel
- Best Unpublished Manuscript
- Author of Tomorrow
- What is Adventure Writing
H E BATES SHORT STORY COMPETITION
H E BATES SHORT STORY COMPETITION
H E BATES SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Our friends at Northampton Writers Group are running their H.E.Bates Short Story Writing Competition, with deadline of Monday 5 April 2021.
CREATIVE FUTURE WRITERS AWARD
H E BATES SHORT STORY COMPETITION
CREATIVE FUTURE WRITERS AWARD
The 2021 Creative Future Writers’ Award
is now open for entries.
There are £10,000 in cash and development prizes available, plus publication and reading at an award event as part of the London Literature Festival (TBC).
The judges are novelist Dorothy Koomson, poet Joelle Taylor, Aki Schilz of The Literary Consultancy and Sarala Estruch of Poetry School.
This year's theme is ‘Essential.’
It is open to UK residents/UK citizens living abroad, over 18 years old, who have not previously published a single-author book. The Award is for under-represented writers—including those who lack opportunities due to mental health, disability, health, and from working class, LGTBQIA+, and Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.
The key details are:
* Fiction: up to 2,000 words
* Poetry: one poem up to 42 lines
* Deadline: 6 June 2021
There is no entry fee.
AESTHETICA AWARDS
H E BATES SHORT STORY COMPETITION
CREATIVE FUTURE WRITERS AWARD
Creative Writing Award 2021 is now open for submissions. Deadline is 31 August.
Prizes include: £2,500 awarded to both the Poetry and Short Fiction winners, and publication within the inspiring Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology, which is awarded to 60 writers, shortlisted by a prestigious judging panel.