Deadline: August 31, 2022 Entry fee: £6 About the competition Write yourself into history and become one of the greats with the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize. For centuries, the greats have come to Oxford to ink masterpieces. Now, in one of the oldest towns, where the history of the EnglishMore
Deadline: June 30, 2022 Entry fee: £10 About the contest Wasafiri encourages readers and writers to travel the world via the word. For over three decades, we have created a dynamic platform for mapping new landscapes in contemporary international writing featuring a diverse range of voices from across the UK andMore
Deadline: June 22, 2022 Entry fee: $5 About the contest Calling all writers! WWA is pleased to host our very first nature writing contest. We’re looking for stories–fiction and nonfiction–all about nature. Give us your best! Submission guidelines All writers everywhere Only original submissions which have not been published inMore
Deadline: June 30, 2022 Entry fee: $20 About the contest New Millennium Writings Awards in Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction. New Millennium Writings was launched in 1996 with a 15-word classified ad. From those humble beginnings, NMW has exploded into an internationally recognized and highly sought-after literary award and journal.More
Deadline: June 15, 2022 Reading fee: $15 About the contest This is an annual national short fiction contest that features a first-place $2,500 cash award and an invitation to an awards dinner; a second-place cash prize of $750; and a third-place cash prize of $500. The winner stories will beMore
Deadline: June 30, 2022 (GMT) About the competition The Aleph Writing Prize is an annual writing competition. The prize awards a limited edition handmade publication to the best piece of fiction. Anybody of any age can enter regardless if they are published or unpublished. The competition is free to enter.More
Deadline: June 30, 2022 About the contest The Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction (‘The Lindisfarne Prize’) is a literary prize that recognises outstanding writing in the genre of crime or thriller fiction, sponsored by the author L J Ross through her publishing imprint, Dark Skies Publishing, in association with theMore
Deadline: May 2, 2022 About the competition Pumpernickel Press is looking for submissions for its first issue in May. Pumpernickel Press is interested in fairy tale and fabulism. Think Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Kate Bernheimer, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nalo Hopkinson. Short Stories: Stories of 1000-10,000 words are welcome. MakeMore
Deadline: June 30, 2022 About the competition Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels. Anyone can enter. Must be original and unpublished. Each entry must consist of a single sentence.More
