Tuin van Digters 2024
Die digter Ingrid Jonker, wat op 19 September 1933 gebore is en nou 90 jaar oud sou wees, is die digter wat vanjaar by die 13de Tuin van Digters in Wellington gehuldig sal word.
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“Eye to the Telescope”: poetry publication
Submission deadline: 15 September 2024
Eye to the Telescope is looking for your take on outlaws. Make them loud, make them stealthy, make them in-your-face, make them subtle, make them violent, make them pacifist, make them winners or losers, lovable or loathing. Whatever you do, just make sure it’s in verse form, memorable, vivid, and speculative.
Die ATKV-skryfskool in Cradock én skouerskuur met skrywers
Voornemende skrywers kan solank hulle dagboeke skoonmaak, want van 20 tot 22 September 2024 gaan die ATKV-Skryfskool weer tydens die Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée in Cradock aangebied word.
Women’s Fiction Competition 2024 – Flash Fiction
Submission deadline: 23 September 2024
Mslexia's competition is for unpublished complete short fiction of up to 300 words. They will accept entries from women of any nationality from any country. You do not have to subscribe to Mslexia to be eligible, but you do have to self-identify as a woman.
Women’s Fiction Competition 2024 – Short Story
Submission deadline: 23 September 2024
This competition is for unpublished complete short fiction of up to 3 000 words. Mslexia will accept entries from women of any nationality from any country. You do not have to subscribe to Mslexia to be eligible, but you do have to self-identify as a woman.
Women’s Fiction Competition 2024 – Children’s & YA Novel
Submission deadline: 23 September 2024
Submit the opening 3 000 words of your novel for children or young adult readers. Your novel must be at least 20 000 words, and our competition is open to women who are not yet published as novelist. Self-published authors are eligible providing you've had fewer than 500 sales.
Aardklop Nasionale Kunstefees 2024
Die program vir Aardklop 2024 is reeds bekendgestel, en feesgangers kan nou al kaartjies koop. Die program spog met ’n wye verskeidenheid van geleenthede vir feesgangers van alle ouderdomme en belangstellings.
Woordfees 2024
Die 2024 Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees speel, sprankel en spruit dié lente uit met meer as 400 unieke produksies wat in nagenoeg 60 venues in en om Stellenbosch aangebied word.
SA Writers College Short Story Competition 2024
Submission deadline: 30 September 2024
The annual Writers College Short Story Competition is held to acknowledge excellence in creative writing in the short story form. The competition is open to any writer who is unpublished, or has been published fewer than four times.
The Henshaw Short Story Competition
Submission deadline: 30 September 2024
Entries for the Henshaw Short Story Competition must be a fictional short story of up to 2 000 words on any theme. There are cash prizes to be won and prize winners will be published on the Henshaw Press website and in the next anthology.
Skryfnet: Skryf ʼn gedig
Sluitingsdatum: 30 September 2024
Skryf ʼn gedig is geskik vir enigiemand wat graag met woorde en verse wil woeker, ongeag van hoe ervare jy is op dié gebied. Dit neem jou op ʼn kreatiewe reis van daardie heel eerste oomblik wat jy jou gedagtes en gevoelens op papier neerpen, totdat jy uiteindelik met ʼn pragtig afgeronde gedig kan spog.
Anthology Nature Writing Competition
Submission deadline: 30 September 2024
The Anthology Nature Writing Competition is created to celebrate the beauty of the natural world, inspire literary excellence and encourage Anthology’s readers to explore the great outdoors.
TV Pilot Screenplay Competition
Submission deadline: 30 September 2024
Screencraft is looking for TV pilots that push genre boundaries like Stranger Things, inspire change like Abbott Elementary and Grey’s Anatomy, transport viewers to other worlds like The Last of Us and Dark Matter, and entertain like The Bear, Girls5Eva and Beef. Winners will receive cash prizes, exclusive workshops, and introductions to industry professionals.
Naledi vra vir gedigvoorleggings vir digbundel, “Merang”
Sluitingsdatum: 1 Oktober 2024
Naledi, tans een van die voorste uitgewers van Afrikaanse poësie, nooi gepubliseerde en ongepubliseerde Afrikaanse digters uit om gedigte voor te lê vir ’n opwindende versamelbundel, Merang.
Tom Howard & Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
Submission deadline: 1 October 2024
Welcome to the 22nd annual Tom Howard & Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Submit published or unpublished work. $10 000 in prizes.
Two Sylvias Press: Online Poetry Retreat
Application deadline: 6 October 2024
A supportive and inspiring 4-Week Online Poetry Retreat (7th of October to the 3rd of November 2024) created by Poets for Poets. Receive a month of poetry exercises and have one of your poems critiqued by the editors of Two Sylvias Press (Kelli Russell Agodon & Annette Spaulding-Convy).
Seaside Gothic Magazine
Submission deadline: 13 October 2024
Seaside Gothic publish fiction, poetry, and nonfiction of maximum 1000 words. The upcoming submission window is from the 7th to the 13th of October 2024. The pay rate is currently £0, 01 per word.
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Submission deadline: 16 October 2024
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is a highly recommended free contest for published books. This award honors books that have made important contributions to the understanding of racism or the appreciation of cultural diversity.
Skryfnet: Kreatiewe Skryfkuns vir Skoliere
Sluitingsdatum: 19 Oktober 2024
Kreatiewe Skryfkuns vir Skoliere is ’n praktiese eendagwerkswinkel, wat aangebied word deur die gewilde jeugverhaalskrywer Carina Diedericks-Hugo. Dis ’n praktiese werkswinkel wat speletjies, oefeninge en skryfsessies insluit en is ideaal vir skoliere wat hul kreatiewe skryfspiere wil losmaak.
Eyelands Book Awards 2024
Submission deadline: 20 October 2024
Eyelands.gr & Strange Days Books are proud to announce the launch of their 7th Eyelands Book Awards. They are always seeking talented writers from all over the world. Eligible submissions include poetry, novellas, short story collections, novels, children’s and YA books, historical fiction/memoir and graphic novels.
The 2025 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
Submission deadline: 22 October 2024
The Dinaane Debut Fiction Award celebrates the voices of debut authors. They welcome unpublished manuscripts in English or translations from other South African languages.
Wenlock Olympian Society: Short Story Competition
Submission deadline: 28 October 2024
The Competition is open to anyone aged 16 or over. International entries are welcome, but stories must be written in English. It must be fictional. There is no minimum word count but the story must not exceed 2 500 words (including the title).
Travel Nonfiction Contest
Submission deadline: 30 October 2024
The Preservation Foundation is a non-profit publisher founded in 1976 with the aim of preserving the extraordinary stories of ordinary people. In their upcoming Travel Nonfiction Contest, they are looking for factual and true accounts of a trip taken by the author or a person or persons known to the author.
Flash 500’s Novel Opening and Synopsis Competition
Submission deadline: 31 October 2024
Have you started, or completed, a novel with strong, credible characters and a page turning plot? Can you put together a compelling synopsis? Yes? Then why not enter Flash 500's Novel Opening competition?
The National Poetry Competition 2024
Submission deadline: 31 October 2024
The National Poetry Competition is one of the world's biggest prizes for a single poem, and all entries are judged via an anonymised process, so put your best poem forward!
The Bedford Short Story and Poem Competition
Submission deadline: 31 October 2024
Welcome to The Bedford Competition, a nonprofit group, that runs an annual international short story and poetry competitions for anyone in the world over 17 years of age. There are prizes totaling £4 600 and all winning and shortlisted stories and poems are published as an anthology.
Literary Magazine: “32 Poems”
Submission deadline: 31 October 2024
32 Poems is a Literary Magazine that welcomes submissions from January 1st to April 30th and from July 1st to October 31st. Contributors receive $25 per poem and two copies of the issue in which their writing appears.
The First Line Journal
Submission deadline: 1 November 2024
The purpose of The First Line is to jump start the imagination and to help writers break through the block that is the blank page. Each issue contains short stories that stem from a common first line; it also provides a forum for discussing favorite first lines in literature. The first line for the upcoming issue is: The parking lot was empty.
Creative Writing Ink Short Story Competition 2024
Submission deadline: 15 November 2024
Entries can be on any subject, theme or genre. Your story must be written in English with a maximum of 3 000 words.
2025 AVBOB Poetry Competition
Submission deadline: 30 November 2024
The Competition is open to any citizen of South Africa and poems may be submitted in any of the 11 official South African written languages. Poems can be entered into any one of five categories: New Beginnings, Birth, Hope, Death and Love. Should your poem be accepted for publication by AVBOB, you will receive a usage fee to the value of R300 for publication on www.avbobpoetry.co.za.
Kyk hoe ver het ons gekom: ’n gedigte- en kortverhaalkompetisie
Sluitingsdatum: 8 Januarie 2025
Kortverhaal- en gedigskeppers word derhalwe uitgenooi om die “Kyk hoe ver het ons gekom”-gedagte met eiesoortige invulling en in eie Afrikaanse woordeskat vas te vang. Dus: Dié breë tematiek kan vanuit enige invalshoek en met benutting van watter tongval(le) van Afrikaans ook al toepaslik is, benader word.