ZenPens Writing Tournament Category: Flash Fiction. ZenPens, a literary and publishing platform involved in the growth and promotion of writers, presents to you her Flash Fiction Writing Tournament. This writing…
The Bergen International Literary Festival for Non-Fiction and Fiction is held in February every year in the Norwegian city of Bergen and attracts writers from every continent. We are…
Established in 2020, the Dzanc Books Diverse Voices Prize seeks brilliant, daring, and imaginative book-length manuscripts of fiction or nonfiction by writers from minority, underrepresented, or marginalized communities. The winning…
With a £15,000 award, the competition aims to find the best proposal for a business book. Young would-be business authors have an opportunity to map a path out of the…
Every year, the Financial Times and The Bodley Head, one of Britain’s leading publishers of non-fiction, team up to find the best young essay-writing talent from around the world. Now…
Gulf Coast is now accepting entries for the 2020 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. The contest awards $3,000 and publication in Gulf Coast to the winner. Two runners…
Application Deadline: 1st November, 2020 Offered annually? Yes Eligible Countries: Commonwealth countries (See below for list of countries) About the Award: The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the…
We are excited to announce that we are now receiving entries for the maiden edition of our much anticipated annual anthology. This year’s edition, themed ‘Tradition’, is open to writers…
The Women Poets’ Prize was launched in 2018, a year on from Rebecca’s passing. This unique award seeks to honour Rebecca’s two key passions: poetry and the empowerment of women….
Entries are now being accepted for The Val Wood Prize for Creative Writing 2020: The Next Chapter The overall theme of this year’s competition has been chosen as feel-good and…
This writing contest is all about book blurbs. The twist? We want blurbs about completely made-up, nonexistent books. Get creative! Write and submit a back cover blurb of 100 words…
The Kindle Storyteller Award is a £20,000 literary prize recognising outstanding writing. It is open to writers publishing in English in any genre, who publish their work through Kindle Direct…
The Hysteria Writing Competition originally supported the work of my social enterprise, the Hysterectomy Association. The Hysterectomy Association closed after 22 years in 2019 and all content was moved to…
About the Fellowship The McGraw Fellowship provides editorial and financial support to journalists who need the time and resources to produce a significant investigative or enterprise story that provides fresh…
The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Grant for Children’s and Young Adult Novelists is offered annually to an author of children’s or young adult fiction for a novel-in-progress. Previously called the PEN/Phyllis Naylor…
The PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History recognizes a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. We’re pleased to announce…
The Broken River Prize is an annual poetry book contest from Platypus Press. Each year a different poet will judge the contest—2020’s judge is poet and teacher Kaveh Akbar. Read…
In January 2021 Pop Up Projects celebrates 10 years of transforming children’s lives through literature. To mark this special occasion, we’re commissioning and publishing Ten Stories to Make a Difference:…
Our ‘Best of Kindness’ 2020 Contest May 1st - July 15th 2020. Our 3rd contest on the theme of kindness, we want to read poems that give insight and perspective…
Details: This competition is for original, previously unpublished poems in English language, on any subject, in any style up to 50 lines long. Poems posted on members-only non-public groups for…