• Competition Deadline: Plough Short Fiction Contest

    From the competition website:   Plough is thrilled to announce its inaugural annual short fiction contest, open to writers anywhere in the world. The winning writer will receive a two thousand dollar award and the winning story will be published in Plough. In addition, up to three finalists will receive two hundred and fifty dollars as...

  • Competition Deadline: The McNeile Writing Competition

    From the competition website:   A short story competition organised by Clapham Writers charity in honour of the late Penelope McNeile; celebrating creativity, diversity, storytelling, and emerging literary voices. Whether you are writing your first short story or have been writing for years, the McNeile Competition is an opportunity to share your voice, challenge your...

  • Competition Deadline: The BPA Short Story Award

    From the competition website:   The Short Story Award is open to unrepresented writers anywhere in the world. All you need is a complete short story up to 2,500 words. Prize: cash + agent introduction, 1st Prize £1,000 + agent introduction, 2nd Prize £300, 3rd Prize £100This year's judges are literary agent, Corissa Hollenbeck, at...

  • Competition Deadline: The Sareeta Domingo Prize

    From the competition website:   The Sareeta Domingo Prize is a free-to-enter writing prize created to discover and support unpublished writers from Black and Global Majority backgrounds, founded by bestselling author Dorothy Koomson in association with Sareeta Domingo’s family, Hachette UK, Jacaranda Books and David Higham Associates.   Enter here.

  • Competition Deadline: SaveAsWriters International Creative Writing Competition 2026

    From the competition website:   To celebrate 150 years since the first ever telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell, SaveAs Writers invite you to submit poetry or short stories with this theme: 'Lines of Communication'. Methods of communication have developed rapidly since that first phone call in 1876. Therefore, the theme can be interpreted...