COMPETITION GUIDE 2020
12 http://www.writers-online.co.uk Writing Magazine - Competition Guide 2020Bacopa Literary Review Contest
Short stories (1,000-1,500 words), creative
non-fi ction (up to 2,500 words), poetry (up
to 3 pieces, 88 lines each), haiku and mixed
genre; all details TBC
Prizes: $300 in each
Free entry
Closing date: 31 MayBath Novel Award
For the fi rst 5,000 words of a novel, plus
one-page synopsis
Prizes: £3,000; 2nd: agent introductions
and manuscript feedback; 3rd: Cornerstones
online course
Entry fee: £28
Closing date: 31 May
Tel: 07791 974681Black River Chapbook
Competition
Unpublished poetry chapbooks, 16-36 pages
Prizes: $500 and publication
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 31 May, biannual, and 31 OctBluepencilagency First Novel
Prize
e fi rst chapter of an unpublished novel
up to 5,000 words
Prizes: £1,000, manuscript review,
introduction to literary agent Nelle Andrew
Entry fee: £20
Closing date: 31 MayBridport Prize
For short stories (up to 5,000 words),
novels (fi rst 8,000 words), poetry (up to 42
lines) and fl ash fi ction (up to 250 words)
Prizes: £5,000, £1,000, £500 and ten £100
highly commendeds for short stories and
poetry; £1,000, £500, £250, three £100
highly commendeds for ash ction; £1,000,
£500, 3x£100 for novels, plus editorial
guidance
Entry fee: £9 per ash ction, £10 per poem,
£12 per short story, £20 novel
Closing date: 31 May
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http://www.bridportprize.org.ukCBC Poetry Prize
A single poem or collection, totalling up
to 600 words, by a Canadian citizen or
resident
Prizes: Can$6,000, 4 x $1,000 runners-up
Entry fee: Can$25
Closing date: 31 MayEden Mills Writers Festival
Literary Contest
Short stories and creative non-fi ction up to
2,500 words; up to 5 poems. All details to
be confi rmed.
Prizes: Can$250 in each category
Entry fee: $15
Closing date: 31 MayElixir Press Fiction Award
Novels and short story collections, 120-500
pages
Prizes: $2,000 and publication
Entry fee: $40
Closing date: 31 MayFrogmore Poetry Prize
For poems, any theme/style, up to 40 lines
Prizes: 250 guineas, 75 guineas, 50 guineas,
plus subscriptions to e Frogmore Papers
Entry fee: £4
Closing date: 31 MayFrome Festival Short Story
Short stories, 1,000-2,200 words, any
theme
Prizes: £400, £200, £100, extra prizes for
local entrants
Entry fee: £8
Closing date: 31 MayHastings Writers Room 5/29
Flash Fiction Competition
For sequences of fi ve 29-word stories, which
should work as a collection
Prizes: Gold and silver memberships of
Retreat West
Entry fee: £7, £10 for two
Closing date: 31 May
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http://www.hastingswritersroom.org/competitionsInternational Welsh Poetry
Competition
Poems up to 50 lines
Prizes: £500, £250, £100, plus 17 runners-up
Entry fee: £5
Closing date: 31 MayJeff Sharlet Memorial Award for
Veterans
Creative writing in any genre, up to
20 pages, by a US military veteran or
personnel
Prizes: $1,000 plus publication, $750, 3 x
$500 runners-up
Free entry
Closing date: 31 MayRefl ex Quarterly Flash Fiction
Stories between 180 and 360 words
Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250
Entry fee: £7
Closing date: 31 May, quarterly, 30 Aug and
30 NovSouthword Fiction Chapbook
Competition
Novella, short story collection, collection
of fl ash fi ction or a mixture of stories and
fl ash, 10,000-15,000 words
Prizes: Two winners (Irish and International)
will have their chapbook published with €250
advance and 20 complimentary copies
Entry fee: €25
Closing date: 31 MayRetreat West Novelette in fl ash
Prize
3,000-8,000 words total, made up of fl ashes
up to 500 words each
Prizes: mentoring, Retreat West membership
Entry fee: £10
Closing date: 31 MayShooter Short Story Competition
Stories up to 5,000 words
Prizes: £400, £100
Entry fee: £7, £10 for two
Closing date: 31 MayShore Scripts Screenwriting
Contest
Contests for feature, TV pilot and short
fi lm scripts
Prizes: prizes totalling $20,000
Entry fee: $40
Closing date: 31 May, early deadlineYeovil Literary Prize
For novels (opening chapters and synopsis,
up to 15,000 words), short stories (max
2,000 words, poems (up to 40 lines),
writing without restrictions, Western
Gazette best local writer
Prizes: Novel: £1,000, £250, £100; Short
story and poetry, £500, £200, £100; Writing
without restrictions: £200, £100, £50; Local
prize: £100
Entry fee: Novel: £12; Short story: £7;
Poetry: £7 for one, £10 for two, £12 for three;
Writing without restrictions: £5
Closing date: 31 MayJUNE
Boulevard Poetry Contest
Groups of three poems by a writer who has
not had a book published
Prizes: $1,000
Entry fee: $16 each category
Closing date: 1 JuneGertrude Stein Award
Short stories, up to 8,000 words
Prizes: $1,000
Entry fee: $20
Closing date: 1 JuneLush Triumphant Literary Awards
Short stories, max 3,000 words, creative
non-fi ction, max 4,000 words; up to fi ve
poems, max 15 pages
Prizes: Can$1,000 and publication in each
category
Entry fee: $30
Closing date: 1 June, TBCMoon City Press Poetry Award
Poetry collections, over 48 pages
Prizes: $1,000 and publication
Entry fee: $25
Closing date: 1 June, TBC