Writing Magazine April 2020

COMPETITION GUIDE 2020

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Quiet Man Dave Prize

Flash fi ction and non-fi ction, up to 500

words

Prizes: £1,000, £200, £50

Entry fee: £5

Closing date: 17 April

Tel: 0161 247 1787

[email protected]

www2.mmu.ac.uk/qmdprize/

Dr William Henry Drummond

Poetry Contest

Poems, up to 50 lines, by Canadian residents

Prizes: Can$300, $200, $100, 8x$75, 8x$50

Entry fee: $10

Closing date: 19 April, TBC

Bath Short Story Award

Short stories up to 2,200 words, in any style

and on any subject

Prizes: £1,200, £300, £100, £50 for the best

local writer, £100 Acorn Award for the best

story by an unpublished writer

Entry fee: £8

Closing date: 20 April

53-word Story Contest

Stories of exactly 53 words, to a diff erent

prompt each month

Prizes: Publication in Prime Number

magazine; free book

Free entry

Closing date: 21 April, and 21st of each month

Poets Meet Politics International

Open Poetry Competition

Poems up to 40 lines, related to politics

Prizes: €500, €250, €100

Entry fee: €12 for up to three

Closing date: TBC, 22 April in 2019

Sixfold Short Story and Poetry

Contest

Short stories, up to 20 pages, and poetry, up

to 10 pages

Prizes: $1,000 and publication, in each

category

Entry fee: $5

Closing date: 23 April, quarterly, 23 July and

23 October

Holland Park Press

Poems, up to 50 lines, on the theme ‘Is

royalty relevant?’

Prizes: £200 and publication

Free entry

Closing date: 27 April

Grindstone Literary Prizes

Short stories, up to 3,000 words; poems, up

to 40 lines

Prizes: £500, £200, 4x£50 in each category

Entry fee: £8

Closing date: 28 April, for short stories, 28

May for poems

Mairtín Crawford Awards

3-5 poems; short stories, up to 2,500 words

Prizes: £500 and invitation to read at Belfast

Book Festival

Entry fee: £6

Closing date: 29 April

Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry

Up to three poems, max 10 lines total

Prizes: $1,500

Entry fee: $15

Closing date: 30 April

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Poetry collections, over 48 pages, by

unpublished poets

Prizes: $5,000 and publication

Entry fee: $25

Closing date: 30 April

Aitken Alexander Non-Fiction

Prize

First book proposals, 3,000-4,000 by

academics

Prizes: £25,000 and publication

Free entry

Closing date: 30 April

Al Blanchard Award

Crime fi ction, up to 5,000 words, set in

New England or by authors from there

Prizes: $100

Free entry

Closing date: 30 April

Berkshire Prize

Poetry manuscripts, 48-88 pages, by

poets who have had no or one collection

published

Prizes: $3,000 plus publication

Entry fee: $30

Closing date: 30 April

Bristol Short Story Prize

Stories on any theme, up to 4,000 words

Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250, 17 £100

shortlisted. All published in prize anthology

Entry fee: £9

Closing date: 30 April

Carlo Annoni Prize

For plays in Italian or English on issues

relating to the LGBTQ+ community

Prizes: €1,000 in each language

Free entry

Closing date: 30 April

Cranked Anvil Short Story

Competition

Short stories, up to 1,500 words; quarterly

Prizes: £150, £75, £30

Entry fee: £5, £3 for second, £2 for third

Closing date: quarterly, 30 April, 31 July, 31

October

[email protected]

https://crankedanvil.co.uk/shortstory/

Craft Short Fiction Award

Short stories up to 5,000 words

Prizes: $2,000, $500 and $300, and

publication

Entry fee: $20

Closing date: 30 April

Dark Tales Short Story

Ongoing monthly comp for horror and sci-

fi short stories, up to 5,000 words

Prizes: £100 for each monthly winner plus

publication in Dark Tales

Entry fee: £4, £8 with critique, £20 with edit

and critique

Closing date: monthly, last day each month

Diagram/New Michigan Press

Chapbook Contest

Chapbook-length prose and poetry

manuscripts, 18-44 pages

Prizes: $1,000 and publication

Entry fee: $20

Closing date: 30 April

FanStory

Busy programme of competitions, closing

every few days, for fl ash, short stories,

poetry and more

Prizes: $100 each comp

Free entry, but for (paid) site members only

Closing date: 30 April, constant

Furphy Literary Award

Unpublished fi ction or narrative non-fi ction

on the theme ‘Australian life’, under 5,000

words, by Australian residents

Prizes: Aus$15,000, university residency,

publication

Free entry

Closing date: 30 April

Ghost Story Supernatural

Fiction Award

Short stories, 1,500-10,000 words, with

supernatural themes, broadly defi ned

Prizes: $1,000, 2x$250

Entry fee: $20

Closing date: 30 April

Grey Hen Poetry Competition

For poems, up to 40 lines, by women 60+

Prizes: £100, £50, £25, website publication

Entry fee: £3, £10 for four

Closing date: 30 April

Tel: 01535 645711

Hastings Writers Room

‘Misrepresentation’

Short stories, up to 1,500 words, on the

theme ‘misrepresentation’

Prizes: Gold and silver memberships of

Retreat West

Entry fee: £6, £10 for two

Closing date: 30 April

[email protected]

http://www.hastingswritersroom.org/competitions