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The Bergen International Essay Competition
The Bergen International Literary Festival for Non-Fiction and Fiction is held in February every year in the Norwegian city…
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Dzanc Books Diverse Voices Prize
Established in 2020, the Dzanc Books Diverse Voices Prize seeks brilliant, daring, and imaginative book-length manuscripts of fiction or nonfiction…
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FT’s Bracken Bower Prize 2020
With a £15,000 award, the competition aims to find the best proposal for a business book. Young would-be business authors…
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The Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize Competition 2020
Every year, the Financial Times and The Bodley Head, one of Britain’s leading publishers of non-fiction, team up to find…
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2020 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing
Gulf Coast is now accepting entries for the 2020 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. The contest awards $3,000…
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The 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Commonwealth Countries
Application Deadline: 1st November, 2020 Offered annually? Yes Eligible Countries: Commonwealth countries (See below for list of countries) About the…
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The ZenPens Maiden Anthology
We are excited to announce that we are now receiving entries for the maiden edition of our much anticipated annual…
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Rebecca Swift Foundation Women’s Poetry Prize 2020
The Women Poets’ Prize was launched in 2018, a year on from Rebecca’s passing. This unique award seeks to honour…
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The Val Wood Prize 2020: The Next Chapter
Entries are now being accepted for The Val Wood Prize for Creative Writing 2020: The Next Chapter The overall theme…
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The Queryletter.com Writing Contest
This writing contest is all about book blurbs. The twist? We want blurbs about completely made-up, nonexistent books. Get creative!…
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Kindle Storyteller Award
The Kindle Storyteller Award is a £20,000 literary prize recognising outstanding writing. It is open to writers publishing in English…
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Hysteria Writing Competition
The Hysteria Writing Competition originally supported the work of my social enterprise, the Hysterectomy Association. The Hysterectomy Association closed after…
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The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism
About the Fellowship The McGraw Fellowship provides editorial and financial support to journalists who need the time and resources to…
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2021 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists
The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists is offered annually to an author of children’s or young…
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2021 PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History
The PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History recognizes a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate…
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Broken River Prize
The Broken River Prize is an annual poetry book contest from Platypus Press. Each year a different poet will judge…
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10 Stories to Make a Difference Contest
In January 2021 Pop Up Projects celebrates 10 years of transforming children’s lives through literature. To mark this special occasion,…
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Origami Poems Kindness Contest 2020
Our ‘Best of Kindness’ 2020 Contest May 1st - July 15th 2020. Our 3rd contest on the theme of kindness,…
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Sentinel Literary Quarterly Competition
Details: This competition is for original, previously unpublished poems in English language, on any subject, in any style up to…
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Shuzia Writing Competition
Submissions for the fourth edition of their writing competition is open! TERMS AND CONDITIONS By submitting my work I agree…
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