COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
22 http://www.writers-online.co.uk Writing Magazine - Competition Guide 2020Exeter Story Prize
Short stories, any theme, up to 10,000 words
Prizes: £500, £150, £100
Entry fee: £12
Closing date: 31 August
Tel: 07722 144357
[email protected]
http://www.creativewritingmatters.co.ukFool for Poetry International
Chapbook Competition
Short collection of poetry, 16-24 pages
Prizes: €1,000, €500, chapbook publication
for both winners plus 25 copies
Entry fee: €25
Closing date: 31 August
Tel: +353 (0)21 4312955Gabo Prize for Literature in
Translation
For translations of poetry or prose Prizes:
$200 plus publication in Lunch Ticket
Free entry
Closing date: biannual, 31 Aug and 28 FebGemini Magazine Flash Fiction
Contest
Short stories, up to 1,000 words
Prizes: $1,000, $100, 4x$25, and publication
Entry fee: $6
Closing date: 31 AugustHaunted Waters Press Awards
Fiction, max 7,500 words; up to 3 poems;
up to 3 pieces of fl ash, up to 500 words
Prizes: $250 and publication in each category
Entry fee: $10
Closing date: 31 AugustHysteria Writing Competition
Short stories up to 600 words, poetry up to
12 lines, fl ash fi ction 100 words
Prizes: £25 each category, anthology publication
Entry fee: £1 per entry
Closing date: 31 AugustNew Voices Award
Children’s picture book manuscripts by US
writers of colour and indigenous writers
Prizes: $2,000, plus standard publishing
contract; $1,000
Free entry
Closing date: 31 August, TBCPreservation Foundation Travel
non-fi ction contest
Travel non-fi ction, 1,000-10,000 words
Prizes: $200, $100
Free entry
Closing date: 31 AugustProle Poetry Pamphlet
Competition 2018
Up to 35 pages of poetry
Prizes: £100, publication
Entry fee: £12
Closing date: 31 August, TBCQuill Prose Award
Any prose work, over 150 pages, by a writer
who identifi es as queer
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $10
Closing date: 31 AugustScarlet Stiletto Awards
Crime and mystery short stories, up to
5,000 words, by Australian women
Prizes: Aus$9,760 prize fund
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 31 AugustScience Fiction Poetry Award
Poems in three categories, dwarf (1-10
lines, or up to 100 words); short (11-49
lines, or up to 100 words); long (50+ lines
or 500+ words)
Prizes: $100, $50, $25
Entry fee: $2
Closing date: 31 AugustSt Lawrence Book Award
Unpublished fi rst collections of poems (45-
95 pages) or short stories (120-280 pages)
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 31 AugustTeens of Tomorrow
Future-focused diverse teen fi ction, 2,000-
5,000 words
Prizes: £200, £100, £50, anthology
publication by Odd Voice Out
Entry fee: £4
Closing date: 31 AugustUNO Press Publishing Lab Prize
Full-length works of fi ction
Prizes: $10,000 and publication
Entry fee: $28
Closing date: 31 AugustSEPTEMBER
Southampton Review Short
Fiction Prize
Short stories, up to 350 words
Prizes: $500, $300, $200
Entry fee: $5
Closing date: 1 SeptemberDiana Brebner Prize
Best poem, up to 30 lines, by a resident of
Canada’s National Capital Region
Prizes: Can$500
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 4 SeptemberWellcome Book Prize
Fiction or non-fi ction with a medical or theme
published in 2019, submitted by publisher
Prizes: £30,000
Free entry
Closing date: 9 September, TBCMichael Marks Awards
For poetry pamphlets up to 36 pages, and
for the publishers of poetry pamphlets
Prizes: £5,000 for each award
Free entry
Closing date: 12 September, TBCHektoen International Summer
Essay Competition
Articles, up to 1,600 words, on a medical
humanities theme TBC
Prizes: $2,500 plus publication; $800
Entry fee:
Closing date: 14 September, TBCNew Voices Competition
First page of a novel and a one-page
synopsis by a fi rst-time writer
Prizes: Start Up mentoring package
Entry fee: £10
Closing date: 14 SeptemberSustainable Societies: Writing
for Children
For picture books and middle grade stories
for children on sustainability issues
Prizes: £200 in each category
Free entry
Closing date: 14 SeptemberGingko Prize for Ecopoetry
Poems up to 54 lines on ecological themes
Prizes: £5,000, £2,000, £1,000
Entry fee: £7, £4 for each subsequent entry
Closing date: 15 September, TBCKore Press Institute Poetry Prize
Poetry collection manuscripts, 48-100 pages
Prizes: $1,500 and publication
Entry fee: $28
Closing date: 15 SeptemberSurrey International Writers’
Conference
Short stories, 2,500-5,000 words
Prizes: Can$1,000, $150
Entry fee: $19
Closing date: 15 SeptemberTransitions Abroad Writing Contest
Essays or guides, 1,200-3,000 words on
living, moving or working abroad
Prizes: $500, $150, $100; $50 for all nalists
Free entry
Closing date: 15 SeptemberStroud Book Festival
International Writing Competition
Poetry up 40 lines, fl ash fi ction up to 500
words; Katie Fforde Award for Mainstream
Fiction excerpt up to 3,000 words and 200-
word synopsis
Prizes: £500, £250, £100 in each category
for poetry and ash ction, £100 and 4-night
writing retreat, £50 Katie Fforde award
Entry fee: £5, £3 each additional
Closing date: TBC, 22 Sept in 2019