COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
Writing Magazine - Competition Guide 2020 http://www.writers-online.co.uk 7Furious Fiction
500-word short stories, written in 55 hours
Prizes: Aus$500
Free entry
Closing date: 5 April, rst Sunday each month
Kraken Book Prize for Middle-
Grade Fiction
Middle-grade books, 120-350 pages
Prizes: $750 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 6 April
Wainwright Golden Beer Book
Prize
Novels on the outdoors, nature and UK-
based travel writing
Prizes: £5,000
Free entry
Closing date: 8 April
GVCA New Deal Writing
Competition
Short stories, up to 10,000 words, inspired
by a painting, shown on the website
Prizes: $200, $100, $50
Entry fee: $5
Closing date: 10 April
Oberon Poetry Prize
Single poems, submit up to 3
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $18
Closing date: 10 April
Laura Literary Awards
Short stories, up to 1,500 words; poems, up
to 60 lines
Prizes: Aus$780 prize fund
Entry fee: $10
Closing date: 10 April
NYC Midnight Screenwriting
Challenge
Screenwriting tournament in three heats
spanning four months
Prizes: $3,750, $1,250, $500, $300, $200;
plus software
Entry fee: $45-$55
Closing date: register by 12 April
Retreat West Micro Fiction
Competition
Fiction, 100 words exactly, to a prompt
posted on the website at the start of each
month
Prizes: 50% of total entry fees received
Entry fee: £4
Closing date: 12 April, monthly
Omnidawn Broadside Poetry
Prize
Single poems, 8-24 lines
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $10, $5 each additional
Closing date: 13 April
York Poetry Prize
Poems up to 40 lines
Prizes: £600, £150, £75, £50. £40; £100
for best international entrant; York postcode
prize £50
Entry fee: £7.50, £12 for 2, £15 for 3
Closing date: 13 AprilAgha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
Poetry collections, 48-100 pages
Prizes: $1,000 and publication; $500
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 AprilBulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Deliberately bad opening lines to novels,
comic writing inspired by Edward Bulwer-
Lytton’s notorious Paul Cliff ord opening,
‘It was a dark and stormy night...’
Prizes: Modest prizes ($250 Grand Prize), but
a lot of interest
Free entry
Closing date: 15 AprilCantoMundo Poetry Prize
Poetry collections, 48-90 pages, by Latinx
writers
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $28
Closing date: 15 April, TBCEtel Adnan Poetry Prize
Poetry collections, 48-90 pages, by a writer
of Arab heritage
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 AprilEverything Change Climate
Fiction Contest
Short fi ction, up to 5,000 words
Prizes: $1,000, 9x$100
Free entry
Closing date: 15 AprilGulf Coast Contests
Stories and essays, up to 25 pages, or up to
5 poems of no more than 10 pages
Prizes: $1,500, 2x$250, in each category
Entry fee: $23
Closing date: 15 AprilHektoen International Essay
Competition
Articles, up to 1,600 words, related to
medical humanities
Prizes: $3,000 plus publication; $800
Free entry
Closing date: 15 April, TBCLeicester Writes Short Story
Prize
Short stories up to 3,000 words
Prizes: £125, £50, £25
Entry fee: £7, £3 Leicestershire writers
Closing date: 20 AprilLoraine Williams Poetry Prize
Up to three poems, up to ten pages total
Prizes: $1,500 and publication
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 15 AprilMagpie Award for Poetry
Unpublished poems up to 100 lines
Prizes: $500, 2x$50
Entry fee: $25, $10 each subsequent
Closing date: 15 AprilNew Ohio Review Prizes
Fiction and non-fi ction, up to 20 pages,
and poetry, up to 6
Prizes: $1,500 in each category
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 15 AprilPanther Creek Book Award in
non-fi ction
Unpublished book-length non-fi ction
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 15 AprilRA & Pin Drop Short Story Award
Short stories up to 4,000 words
Prizes: A reading by a special guest at an
evening at the Royal Academy of Arts
Free entry
Closing date: 15 April, TBCSlope Editions Book Prize
Unpublished poetry collections, 40-90
pages, by US poets
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 AprilZone 3 Press Award
Poetry manuscripts this year, 48-80 pages
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 15 AprilC Michael Curtis Prize
Short story collections, 140-220 pages, by
writers who lived in the US southern states
Prizes: $10,000 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 1 AprilPrism Grouse Grind Prize for V
Short Forms
Fiction and non-fi ction, up to 300 words
Prizes: Can$500, $150, $50
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 16 AprilSustainable Societies: Full-
length Film Screenplays
Film screenplays on sustainable living
Prizes: £500, £200, £100, 3 x £50
Free entry
Closing date: 18 April, TBC