COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
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Fresh.ink competition
Short stories (up to 7,500 words), novelettes
(7,500-17,499), novellas (17,500-39,999) and
novels (40,000+)
Prizes: $1,000 (SS), $1,500 (novelette), $2,000
(novella), $3,000 (novel)
Free entry
Closing date: 1 December, TBCSillerman First Book Prize
Poetry collection manuscripts, over 50 pages,
by unpublished African poets
Prizes: $1,000
Free entry
Closing date: 1 DecemberStrokestown International
Poetry Prize
Unpublished poems for open competition.
Unpublished comic poems for Percy French
Prize for Comic Verse
Prizes: €2,000, €700, €400; 7x€300
Entry fee: €6
Closing date: TBC, 6 Dec in 2019HE Bates Short Story
Competition
Short stories up to 2,000 words
Prizes: £500, £200, £100, £100 for best short
story by a Northampton writer
Entry fee: £6, £10 for two
Closing date: 9 December, TBCIrish Imbas Celtic Mythology
Short Story Competition
Short stories drawing on Celtic/Gaelic
mythology
Prizes: $500, $250, $100 and publication
Entry fee: $7
Closing date: 10 DecemberSunday Times Audible Short
Story Award
Short stories, up to 6,000 words, by authors
with a record of publication
Prizes: £30,000, ve £1,000 shortlisted
Free entry
Closing date: TBC, 13 Dec in 2019Chorley & District Writers’ Circle
Annual Short Story Competition
Short stories, max 2,500 words, theme TBC
Prizes: £100, £50, 3x£20
Entry fee: £6, £10 for two
Closing date: 15 December, TBCFour Way Books It’s No Contest
Book length manuscripts by New Yorkers
Prizes: Publication
Free entry
Closing date: 15 DecemberJhalak Prize
For book of the year by a writer of colour
Prizes: £1,000
Free entry
Closing date: 15 DecemberMoon City Short Fiction Award
Collections of short fi ction, 30,000-
65,000 words
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 December, TBCHawkeye Publishing Manuscript
Development Prize
Book length manuscripts of commercial
fi ction or non-fi ction, up to 80,000 words
Prizes: Author coaching, structural and line edit
Entry fee: Aus$45
Closing date: 18 DecemberWriters Digest Short Short Story
Awards
Short stories, up to 1,500 words
Prizes: $3,000, $1,500, $500, 6x$100; plus
vouchers, consultations, publication
Entry fee: $30 ($25 before 15 Nov)
Closing date: 19 December, TBCLazuli Literary Group Writing
Contest
Your best writing of any kind
Prizes: $100
Entry fee: $10
Closing date: 20 December, TBCYoung Walter Scott Prize
Historical fi ction, 800-2,000 words, by
writers aged 11-15 or 16-19
Prizes: £500 travel grant in each category
Free entry
Closing date: 20 December, TBCDead of Winter Horror Fiction
Contest
Fiction in any dark genre, word count TBC
(3,000-5,000 last time)
Prizes: $50, $15, $10 Amazon gift cards
Free entry
Closing date: 21 DecemberDorset Prize
Poetry collections, 48-88 pages
Prizes: $3,000 and publication
Entry fee: $30
Closing date: 31 DecemberTamaqua Award for a Collection
of Essays
Unpublished essay collections
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $22
Closing date: 31 December, TBCWild Words Winter Solstice
Writing Competition
1,000 words of poetry, prose, song or
spoken word, inspired by one of four
quotes listed on the website
Prizes: A Wild Words one-hour 1-1
mentoring session, online publication
Entry fee: £7
Closing date: 21 DecemberRuth Rendell Short Story
Competition
For short stories, up to 1,000 words
Prizes: £1,000 and commission to write four
further stories over the course of one year
Entry fee: £15
Closing date: 22 December, TBCArkbound Short Story
Competition
Short stories between 500 and 1,000 words
on the theme of time
Prizes: £100, £50, £25, 3 x £10
Entry fee: £3. Arkbound will sponsor entries
from disadvantaged people.
Closing date: 31 DecemberBoulevard Emerging Writers
Competition
Fiction or nonfi ction up to 8,000 words, by
a writer who has not had a book published
Prizes: Fiction, $1,500; non- ction, $1,000
Entry fee: $16 each category, includes a
subscription to the mag
Closing date: 31 DecemberLascaux Prize for short fi ction
Short stories, up to 10,000 words
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 31 DecemberMoth Poetry Prize
For a single unpublished poem
Prizes: €10,000, 3 x €1,000 plus publication
in e Moth
Entry fee: €15
Closing date: 31 DecemberOuen Press Short Story
Competition
Short stories, 4,000-10,000 words on a
theme TBC
Prizes: Cash prizes and publication (£300, 2
x £100 last time)
Free entry
Closing date: 31 December, TBC