COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
18 http://www.writers-online.co.uk Writing Magazine - Competition Guide 2020Tupelo Broadside Prize
3-5 poems, max 21 lines each
Prizes: $350 for three winners
Entry fee: $22
Closing date: 30 JuneUniversity of Canberra Vice-
Chancellor’s International Poetry
Poems, max 50 lines
Prizes: Aus$15,000, $5,000, 4x$50
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 30 June, TBC, 30 June in 2019Wells Festival of Literature
Short stories between 1,000 and 2,000
words; poems up to 35 lines; stories for
children (fi rst three chapters); young poets,
up to 35 lines)
Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250, £100 local prize;
£750, £300, £200, local prize of £100, in
poetry and children’s categories; £150, £75,
£50 in young poets’ category
Entry fee: £6 each category, £3 for young poets
Closing date: 30 June
Tel: 01749 673244
admin@wellsfestivalofl iterature.org.uk
http://www.wellsfestivalofl iterature.org.ukJULY
Canadian Stories Contest
Prose up to 3,000 words; up to 3 poems- worldwide writers welcome but entries
must pertain to Canada
Prizes: 6xCan$350, 2x$175, 2x$50
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 1 July
Conium Review Innovative
Short Fiction Contest
Short stories and fl ash, up to 7,500 words –
as a single or multiple stories
Prizes: $500
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 1 JulyBeth Chatto Writers’ Prize
For short stories, novel extracts or creative
non-fi ction in which a garden or landscape
is an essential element, by writers in Essex
Prizes: £200, £100, £50
Entry fee:
Closing date: 1 JulyMere Literary Festival Poetry
Competition
Poems up to 40 lines
Prizes: £300, £100, £50, 3 x £15
Entry fee: £4.50, £3.50 for each subsequent
Closing date: 1 JulyWilliam Van Wert Fiction Award
Short story or novel extracts, up to 25 pages
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $17
Closing date: 1 JulyHG Wells Short Story
Competition
Short stories between 1,500 and 5,000
words on the theme of ‘vision’
Prizes: £1,000 prize for writers under 21, over
21s £500
Entry fee: £10, £5 under 21
Closing date: 6 JulyBoardman Tasker Award for
Mountain Literature
Book-length literature (fi ction, non-
fi ction, drama, poetry) concerned with the
mountain environment
Prizes: £3,000
Free entry
Closing date: 15 JulyCrab Orchard Series in Poetry
First Book Award
Poetry collections, over 48 pages, by US
citizens
Prizes: $2,500 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 July, TBCDoris Gooderson Short Story
Competition
Short stories up to 1,200 words, open theme
Prizes: £200, £100, £50, winning entries may
be published in the annual anthology
Entry fee: £5
Closing date: 15 July
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http://www.wrekinwriters.co.ukFitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize
Unpublished novels over 30,000 words
Prizes: £3,000 advance, publication by
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Free entry
Closing date: 15 JulyFrancine Ringwold
Fiction up to 5,000 words or up to 5 pages
of poetry
Prizes: $500 in both categories, plus
publication
Entry fee: $12
Closing date: 15 July, annualMuriel Craft Bailey Memorial
Poetry Award
Poems up to 40 lines
Prizes: $1,000, $250, $100
Entry fee: $5
Closing date: 15 JulyAAWP Australian Short Story
Festival Short Story Prize 2020
Short stories, up to 3,000 words, by writers
across Australasia
Prizes: Conference, travel and
accommodation for the Australian Short Story
Festival
Entry fee: Aus$20
Closing date: 31 JulyPetrichor Prize
Finely crafted unpublished fi ction
manuscripts, 120-350 pages
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 JulyPrism Creative Non-Fiction
Competition
Creative non-fi ction, max 6,000 words
Prizes: Can$1,500, $600, $400
Entry fee: International entries $45
Closing date: 15 JulyLedbury Poetry Festival Poetry
Competition
Poetry up to 40 lines
Prizes: £1,000 and a week at Ty Newydd
Entry fee: £5.75, £3.50 each additional
Closing date: 16 JulyBeverly Prize for Literature
Book-length manuscripts of fi ction, non-
fi ction, poetry, drama, memoir, or criticism.
Prizes: £1,000 and publication
Entry fee: £25
Closing date: 21 JulyHawk Mountain Short Story
Collection Award
Unpublished short story collections
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 30 JulyAAWP/UWRF Translators’ Prize
Translations of prose, up to 3,000 words, or
poems, up to 30 lines, into English
Prizes: A fully subsidised visit to the
Australasian Association of Writing
Programs (AAWP) conference, including
accommodation and air fares
Entry fee: Aus$20
Closing date: 31 JulyCraft First Chapters Contest
e fi rst chapter(s) of an unpublished novel
Prizes: $2,800 and publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 31 July, TBC, 1 April in 2019F(r)iction Literary Contests
rice-yearly comp for fi ction and creative
non-fi ction, 1,000-7,500 words, poems, up
to 3; fl ash, up to 750 words
Prizes: $1,000 for short stories, $300 each for
poetry and ash
Entry fee: $15 stories; $8 ash, $12 for 3;
$10 poems, $12 for three
Closing date: 31 July, TBC, thrice yearlyFoyle Young Poets of the Year
Poetry from writers aged 11-17
Prizes: Publication in an anthology,
mentoring, Arvon writing residency
Free entry
Closing date: 31 July, TBC