COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
14 http://www.writers-online.co.uk Writing Magazine - Competition Guide 2020Hastings Literary Festival
Writing Competition
Short stories, up to 2,500 words, short
stories by BAME writers, up to 5,000
words, poems, up to 40 lines, and fl ash
fi ction, up to 500 words
Prizes: £200, £100, £50 each category, plus
bespoke writer’s surgery for best entry from a
Sussex writer
Entry fee: £7.50, £5 each subsequent
Closing date: 7 JuneALCS Award for Educational
Writing
Traditionally published non-fi ction that
enhances learning
Prizes: £2,000
Free entry
Closing date: 10 JuneVictoria University Short Story
Prize for New Writers
Short stories up to 3,000 words
Prizes: Aus$6,000, 2x$1,000
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 10 June, TBCAurora Poetry & Short Fiction
Open Competition
For short stories up to 2,000 words and
poems up to 40 lines
Prizes: £500, £150 and a Writing School East
Midlands course £50 in each category; £100
and development for the best entry from an
East Midlands writer
Entry fee: £9, £7 for subsequent entries
Closing date: 8 June TBCCanterbury Festival Poet of the
Year Competition
Poems up to 60 lines
Prizes: £200, £100, £50, £25; people’s
choice, £25; best read, sparkling wine
Entry fee: £5
Closing date: 15 June’Crabbe Competition
Poems, up to 50 lines, by Suff olk poets/
members of the Suff olk Poetry Society
Prizes: £600, £300, £150, 2 x £75
Entry fee: £3
Closing date: 15 JuneCreative Future Writers’ Award
Poetry up to 200 words, short fi ction up to
2,000 words, by disadvantaged writers
Prizes: £10,000 in development
opportunities
Free entry
Closing date: 15 June, TBC, 15 June in 2019Hummingbird Flash Fiction
Prize
Short fi ction, up to 1,000 words
Prizes: Can$300, $75
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 15 JuneLiving Springs Publishers Stories
Through the Ages Competition
Short stories, 900-4,000 words, by writers
in various adult age ranges
Prizes: $500, $200, $100 in each category
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 JuneNarrative Prize
e best short story, novel excerpt, poem,
play, graphic story or piece of literary non-
fi ction published in Narrative
Prizes: $4,000
Free entry
Closing date: 15 June, TBCOmnidawn Poetry Chapbook
Contest
Poetry collections, 20-40 pages
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $18
Closing date: 15 JuneQueen Mary Wasafi ri New
Writing Prize
Poetry (up to fi ve poems), fi ction and life
writing up to 3,000 words
Prizes: £1,000 in each category plus
publication in Wasa ri
Entry fee: £10 for one category, £16 for two
categories
Closing date: 15 JuneSegora Short Story and Poetry
Competitions
Short stories between 1,500 and 3,000
words, poems up to 50 lines, vignettes up
to 300 lines, one-act plays
Prizes: £300, £100, £50 for poetry and short
story, £100 for vignettes; £150, £50 for plays;
prize presentation in France, TBA
Entry fee: £5 poems and vignettes, £8 story,
£12 play
Closing date: 15 June
Tel: 00 33 5 49 80 22 96
[email protected]
http://www.poetryproseandplays.comSunday Times/University of
Warwick Young Writer of the
Year Award
e best full-length published or self-
published work of fi ction, non-fi ction or
poetry by an author under 35
Prizes: £5,000, 3 x £500
Free entry
Closing date: 15 June, TBCAAWP Slow Canoe Creative
Non-Fiction Prize
Unpublished, narrative-driven non-fi ction,
to emerging writers from Australasia
Prizes: Aus$500 and a fully subsidised visit
to the Australasian Association of Writing
Programs (AAWP) conference
Entry fee: Aus$20
Closing date: 30 JuneBath Flash Fiction Award
rice-yearly competition for fl ash fi ction
up to 300 words
Prizes: £1,000, £300, £100, 2x£30
Entry fee: £9
Closing date: 16 June, and October TBCEyelands International Short
Story Competition
Short stories up to 2,500 words on the
theme ‘numbers’
Prizes: A week’s holiday for two on Serifos
Entry fee: €10 TBC
Closing date: 20 JuneA Midsummer Tale Narrative
Writing Contest
Literary fi ction and creative non-fi ction,
1,000-5,000 words, on a theme TBC
Prizes: $50, $15, $10 Amazon gift cards
Free entry
Closing date: 21 June, annualMcLellan Poetry Prize
Poems up to 80 lines
Prizes: £1,500, £300, £150, 6x£25
Entry fee: £6, £5 additional
Closing date: 21 June, TBC, 21 June in 2019Wild Words Summer Solstice
Writing Competition
1,000 words of poetry, prose, song or
spoken word. eme TBC
Prizes: One-hour mentoring session, online
publication
Entry fee: £7
Closing date: 21 JuneTroubadour International Poetry
Prize
Poems, up to 45 lines
Prizes: £2,000, £1,000, £500; smaller prizes
Entry fee: £5, €6, $7 per poem
Closing date: 22 JuneAdelaide Plains Poetry
Competition
Poems, up to 60 lines, on theme ‘vision’
Prizes: Aus$700 fund
Entry fee: $10, $5 additional
Closing date: 26 JuneJames White Award
Science fi ction (broadly defi ned), 2,000-
6,000 words, by non-professional writers
Prizes: £200, plus publication in Interzone
Free entry
Closing date: 28 June, TBCRetreat West Themed Flash
Fiction Prize
Fiction, up to 500 words, themed each
quarter
Prizes: £200, 2x£100
Entry fee: £8
Closing date: 28 June (theme ‘music’); 27
Sept (theme ‘glass’); 29 Dec (theme ‘bridges’)