COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
Writing Magazine - Competition Guide 2020 http://www.writers-online.co.uk 11Brick Lane Bookshop Short
Story Prize
Short stories, 1,000-5,000 words
Prizes: £1,000, £250, £100
Entry fee: £10
Closing date: 15 May
Janet B McCabe Poetry Contest
2 poems, up to 40 lines
Prizes: $1,500, $300; plus publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 15 May
Lorian Hemingway Short Story
Competition
Short stories up to 3,500 words
Prizes: $1,500, 2x$500
Entry fee: $15 before 1 May, then $20
Closing date: 15 May
Pleiades Press Editor’s Prize for
Poetry
Poetry collections, over 48 pages
Prizes: $3,000 plus publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 15 May, TBC
Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize
Up to three poems, three pages total
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 15 May
Ploughshares Emerging Writer
Contest
Fiction and non-fi ction, each under 6,000
words; 3-5 pages of poetry
Prizes: $2,000 in each category, plus
publication
Entry fee: $24
Closing date: 15 May, TBCProphecy Creek award for
Speculative Fiction
Unpublished book-length speculative
fi ction
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 15 MayRaymond Carver Short Story
Prize
Annual competition for short stories, up to
10,000 words
Prizes: $1,500, £500, $250, two $125 editor’s
choices
Entry fee: $17
Closing date: 15 MayWillowdown Books Cunningham
Short Story Competition
Short stories, 1,000-3,000 words
Prizes: $125
Entry fee: $12
Closing date: 15 MaySmokelong Quarterly Award for
Flash Fiction
Fiction, up to 1,000 words
Prizes: $2,000, $200, $100; nalists, $50
Entry fee: early bird $13.50 for up to 2;
$15.50 after 27 April
Closing date: 24 MayLive Canon Collection
Competition
Poetry collections of 35+ poems
Prizes: ree will be chosen for publication
Entry fee: £12
Closing date: 25 MayWigtown Poetry Competition
For poems, up to 40 lines in English, Scots
or Scots/Irish Gaelic
Prizes: £1,500, £200; Gaelic Prize £500,
£200; Scots Prize £500, £200
Entry fee: TBC, in previous years, £6.50, £17
for three, £5 after that
Closing date: 29 May
Tel: 01988 402036
[email protected]
http://www.wigtownpoetryprize.comBlack Orchid Novella Award
Traditional mystery novellas
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Free entry
Closing date: 31 MayNOVEL
Synopsis and opening chapters, up to 15,000 wordsSHORT STORY
Up to a maximum of 2,000 wordsPOEM
A poem with a maximum of 40 lines
WRITING WITHOUT RESTRICTION
Exciting and original - write whatever you like!CLOSING DATE 31st MAY 2020
The competition is organised by the Yeovil Community Arts Association
with highly esteemed guest judges from the literary worldFor full entry details please see our website atOr write to Liz Pike at YCAA, e Octagon eatre,
YEOVIL, BA20 1UX for an entry form. Please send an SAE.
e Yeovil Community Arts Association is a registered charity
(no 299372). All pro ts from e Yeovil Literary Prize are used to
promote the arts and artistic endeavours in and around Yeovil.This internationally acclaimed competition
is open for entries on 1 January, offering
opportunities for all writers. Now in its
seventeenth year, we know several past
winners have achieved success in the
publishing world.There are FOUR categories, with
signifi cant cash prizes.2
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and a local prize of and a local prize of ££ 100100POETRY
SHORT STORY
A BOOK FOR CHILDREN
££150, 150, ££75, 75, ££ 5050
YOUNG POETS
Entry fee £ 3From 1 April to 30 June 2020Entry fee £ 6Entry fee £ 6Entry fee £ 6