COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
Writing Magazine - Competition Guide 2020 http://www.writers-online.co.uk 29Malahat Review Open Season
Awards
Fiction or creative non-fi ction, up to 2,500
words; up to 3 poems, under 100 lines each
Prizes: Can$2,000, publication, each category
Entry fee: international entries $45
Closing date: 5 November
Perugia Press Prize
First or second poetry collections, 45-87
pages, by US women
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $27
Closing date: 15 November
Robert C Jones Book Contest
A prose manuscript of more than 60 pages
Prizes: $2,000 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 November, TBC
Yale Series of Younger Poets
Poetry collections, 48-64 pages, by emerging
US poets
Prizes: Publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 November, TBC
Judith Wright Poetry Prize
Poems by poets who have had no more than
one collection published
Prizes: Aus$6,000, $2,000, $1,000
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 17 November, TBC
Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
Short stories up to 3,000 with a ‘travel’ theme
Prizes: Aus$4,000, 2x$500
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 17 November, TBC
Poetry Kit Autumn Competition
Poetry of any length on any subject
Prizes: £100, £50
Entry fee: £3.50, £8 for 3, £10 for 5
Closing date: 20 November, TBC
New Media Writing Prize
Interactive fi ction or non-fi ction written
specifi cally for digital delivery
Prizes: £1,000, student prize of £500, £500 Dot
Award, £750 journalism prize
Free entry
Closing date: 22 November, TBC
Shooter Poetry Competition
Poems up to 100 lines
Prizes: £100, £50, publication
Entry fee: £3, £8 for three
Closing date: November TBC, 24th last year
Brunel Uni African Poetry Prize
Groups of ten poems, up to 30 lines each, by
African writers or whose parents are African
Prizes: £3,000
Free entry
Closing date: TBC, 30 Nov in 2019
Bath Children’s Novel Award
For unpublished and independently
published writers of children’s novels. Send
fi rst 5,000 words and synopsis
Prizes: £3,000, manuscript feedback,
Cornerstones online course worth £1,800
Entry fee: £28
Closing date: 29 NovemberAeon Award
Short stories up to 10,000 in any spec fi c genre
Prizes: €1,000, €200, €100
Entry fee: €8.50
Closing date: 30 NovemberBetty Trask Prize
For published or unpublished, traditional or
romantic (not experimental) fi rst novels by
authors under the age of 35 on 31 Dec
Prizes: £20,000 total, to use for foreign travel
Free entry
Closing date: 30 NovemberCP Cavafy Poetry Prize
Poems, submit up to 3
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $15, $3 each additional
Closing date: 30 NovemberFish Short Story Competition
Short stories up to 5,000 words
Prizes: €3,000 for rst, a week at Anam Cara
Writer’s Retreat in West Cork plus €300
expenses for second, €300 for third TBC
Entry fee: €20 for the rst, €10 thereafter TBC
Closing date: 30 November, TBCGregory O’Donoghue
International Poetry Competition
Poems up to 40 lines
Prizes: €2,000, week’s residency at the Tyrone
Guthrie Centre; €500, €250, 10 x €50
Entry fee: €7, €30 for ve poems
Closing date: 30 NovemberLittoral Press Full Collection
Poetry Competition
Collections, 50-100 pages, by unpublished
UK poets, predominantly on nature themes
Prizes: Publication and 50 copies
Entry fee: £20
Closing date: 30 NovemberObserver/Anthony Burgess Prize
for Arts Journalism
An 800-word cultural review
Prizes: £3,000 and publication of prize essay in
the Observer, 2 x £500
Entry fee: £10
Closing date: 30 November, TBCPrairie Fire Contests
Short stories, max 10,000 words; non-fi ction,
max 5,000 words; 1-3 poems, max 150 lines
Prizes: Can$1,250, $500, $250, each category
Entry fee: $32
Closing date: 30 NovemberPaul Torday Memorial Prize
A fi rst novel by a writer 60 and over
Prizes: £1,000
Free entry
Closing date: 30 NovemberQueen’s Knickers Award
Illustrated book for children aged 0-7
published in the last year
Prizes: £5,000, £1,000
Free entry
Closing date: 30 NovemberRobyn Mathison Poetry Prize
Poems up to 40 lines, theme ‘earth’
Prizes: Aus$200, $50
Entry fee: $10
Closing date: 30 NovemberServiceScape Short Story Award
Short stories, up to 5,000 words, any theme
Prizes: $1,000
Free entry
Closing date: 30 NovemberSomerset Maugham Awards
Published work of fi ction, non-fi ction or
poetry by an author under 30
Prizes: prize fund of £10,000, to use for travel
Free entry
Closing date: 30 NovemberDECEMBER
Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
First or second book-length poetry
collections, 48-88 pages
Prizes: £2,000 or $3,000, plus publication
Entry fee: $27
Closing date: 1 DecemberBrooklyn Non-Fiction Prize
Creative non-fi ction about Brooklyn or its
residents, up to 2,500 words
Prizes: $500
Free entry
Closing date: TBC, 1 Dec in 2019Cafe Writers’ Open Poetry
For poems on any theme, up to 40 lines
Prizes: £1,000, £300, £200, 5 x £50, £100
Norfolk Prize
Entry fee: £4, £10 for three, £2 each extra
Closing date: TBC, 1 Dec in 2019Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize
Up to 3 poems
Prizes: $1,500, $500 and publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 1 DecemberDWL Short Story Contest
Stories up to 5,000 words on any subject
Prizes: $375, 3 x $100
Free entry
Closing date: 7 December, TBC