COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
24 http://www.writers-online.co.uk Writing Magazine - Competition Guide 2020Manchester Fiction Prize
Short stories, up to 2,500 words
Prizes: £10,000
Entry fee: £17.50
Closing date: 18 September
Tel: 0161 247 1787
[email protected]
www2.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/Manchester Poetry Prize
Portfolio of poetry (3-5, maximum 120
lines)
Prizes: £10,000
Entry fee: £17.50
Closing date: 18 September
Tel: 0161 247 1787
[email protected]
www2.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/Val Wood Prize
Short stories up to 1,500 words, theme TBC
Prizes: £100, £50, 2x£25, web publication
Free entry
Closing date: 21 September, TBCTulipTree Review Genre Contest
Fiction and non-fi ction, up to 10,000
words, any genre, on the theme ‘underdogs’
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 23 SeptemberKSP Writers Centre Short Fiction
Competition
Short stories, up to 2,500 words, by
Australian residents or citizens
Prizes: Aus$300, $150; $100, $50 for youths
Entry fee: $10, $15 for 2, $20 for 3
Closing date: 25 SeptemberNew Guard Contests
Fiction, up to 5,000 words, and up to three
poems, total 150 lines max
Prizes: $1,500
Entry fee: $22
Closing date: 27 September, TBCAcheven Book Prize
Young adult fi ction, 120-350 pages
Prizes: $750 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 30 SeptemberBracken Bower Prize
Best proposal for a business book on the
challenges and opportunities for growth
from a writer under 35
Prizes: £15,000
Free entry
Closing date: TBC, 30 Sept in 2019Caterpillar Story for Children Prize
Short stories up to 2,000 words for children
aged 7-11
Prizes: €1,000
Entry fee: €12
Closing date: 30 September, TBCCrab Orchard Review Student
Writing Awards
Fiction or non-fi ction, up to 4,000 words,
or up to 3 poems, by US students
Prizes: $250 in each category
Free entry
Closing date: 30 September, TBCCrowvus Christmas Ghost Story
Competition
Spooky stories, up to 4,000 words
Prizes: £100, £75, £50
Entry fee: £3, £5 for two
Closing date: 30 SeptemberDarling Axe First Page
First double-spaced page of a novel
Prizes: Can$200 minimum
Entry fee: $5
Closing date: 30 September, TBCDzanc Prizes
Novels (40,000 words+), novellas (18,000-
40,000 words) and book-length short story
collections
Prizes: $5,000 for novels, $2,500 for ss
collections, $1,500 for novellas
Entry fee: TBC
Closing date: 30 SeptemberEcologisers’ EcoSanta-themed
Short Story Competition
Short stories for children featuring Santa as
an eco-champion, under 1,000 words
Prize: £100
Free entry
Closing date: 30 September
Tel: 01851 820308
[email protected]
http://www.ecologisers.comLascaux Prize for creative non-
fi ction
Creative non-fi ction, up to 10,000 words
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 30 SeptemberMslexia Women’s Fiction Awards
In 2019 Short Story, Flash Fiction, Novel,
Monologue
Prizes: £10,000+ prize pot
Entry fee: TBC
Closing date: 30 September, TBCRed Hen Press Fiction Award
Book-length fi ction manuscripts, 150 pages
minimum
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 30 SeptemberSalisbury Story Prize
Short stories, max 500 words
Prizes: Writing academy place
Free entry
Closing date: 30 September, TBCEdinburgh International Flash
Fiction Competition
Stories up to 250 words
Prizes: £600, £300, £150; £300 Scottish prize
Entry fee: £6
Closing date: 30 SeptemberHammond House International
Literary Prize
Short stories, 1,000-5,000 words, poems up
to 40 lines and scripts, up to 10 pages, on
the theme ‘survival’
Prizes: Short stories £500, £100, £50; poems
£100, £30, £20; scripts, £100
Entry fee: £10
Closing date: 30 SeptemberIowa Short Fiction Award
Short story collections, at least 150 pages, by
authors who have not had a book published
Prizes: Publication by University of Iowa Press
Free entry
Closing date: 30 SeptemberSalopian Poetry Society’s
annual open poetry competition
Poetry, any length
Prizes: £250, £150, £100
Entry fee: £4, £10 for 3, £15 for 6
Closing date: 30 SeptemberThe Short Story Competition
Short stories, 1,000-5,000 words.
Prizes: £500, £100
Entry fee: £8
Closing date: TBC, 30 SeptemberTom Howard/Margaret Reid
Poetry Contest
Poems in two styles: open and traditionally
rhymed, up to 250 lines.
Prizes: $3,000 and ten $100 honourable
mentions, in each category
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 30 September
Tel: +1 413 320 1847
[email protected]
http://www.winningwriters.com/tompoetryWorld Around Us Chapbook
AnthologyContest
Poems, no longer than 36 lines
Prizes: Can$100, $75, $50, $25x2
Entry fee: $5, 3 for $10
Closing date: 30 SeptemberOCTOBER
Aryamati Poetry Prize
Poems up to 40 lines, promoting peace and
social change
Prizes: 250 copies of your poem printed on
special postcards, £100 worth of books, plus
critiques
Entry fee: £3, £1 each extra
Closing date: 1 October