From the competition website: Bournemouth has a rich literary heritage. World-renowned writers - from Bram Stoker to Bill Bryson, Mary Shelley to JRR Tolkien, all took inspiration from our seaside oasis on the south coast of Dorset. Originally, Bournemouth was a spa town, attracting people from across the country (and polluted cities!) to use...
BBC National Short Story Award-winning Lucy Caldwell (author of Openings and These Days) and Nell Stevens (author of The Original and Somerset Maugham Award-winning Mrs Gaskell & Me) are both masters at catapulting you into characters’ lives, conjuring entirely new worlds in a matter of pages. In this conversation they discuss their new story collections, Devotions and The Good Time, talking stories of love, grief, haunted...
From the competition website: 1st Prize: £1000 / 2nd Prize: £200 / New Voice Prize: £200 / 3rd Prize: £100 / Hidden Element Prize £100 Shortlisted entrants will be offered publication in our end of year anthology. Enter here.
From the competition website: Poetry entries should be no more than 40 lines. Fiction entries should be no more than 2,000 words. Works published or entered elsewhere are accepted. We accept works on any theme. You may enter the Award as many times as you wish, although each work requires a fee and new...
The National Centre for Writing is collaborating with the International House of Literature Passa Porta and Flanders Literature to offer a month-long writing residency in Brussels in 2027. The exact date of the residency will be agreed by Passa Porta with the successful applicant. The residency is part of an exchange with the National Centre...