Mslexia's competition is for unpublished complete short fiction of up to 300 words.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.
This competition is for unpublished complete short fiction of up to 3 000 words.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.
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.
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 The competition is open to any writer who is unpublished, or has been published fewer than four times.
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.
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.
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.
Welcome to the 22nd annual Tom Howard & Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Submit published or unpublished work. $10 000 in prizes.
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.
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).
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.
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 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!
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.
Entries can be on any subject, theme or genre. Your story must be written in English with a maximum of 3 000 words.
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.
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.