Deadline: July 30, 2025 Entry fee: €18 About the competition Established to recognise and encourage creative writing and provide a platform for publication, the Anthology Short Story Competition is open to original and previously unpublished short stories in the English language by a writer of any nationality, living anywhere in the world.More
Deadline: June 30, 2025 Entry fee: €15 About the competition The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone from anywhere in the world as long as their story is original and previously unpublished. The winners are chosen by a single judge each year, who reads theMore
Deadline: June 30, 2025 About the competition The Hastings Book Festival has 3 writing competitions for short stories (max 2,500 words), poetry (max 40 lines) open to all and creative non-fiction for writers within a 20 mile radius of Hastings (max 1,000 words). The main Hastings Book Festival prize entryMore
Deadline: June 30, 2025 Entry fee: £40 About the competition The Page Turner Awards are an annual international writing competition based in the UK, open to writers from around the globe. There are multiple categories: unpublished writers (Writing Award & Mentorship Award), published authors (Book Award), and screenwriters (Screenplay Award). This writingMore
Deadline: June 30, 2025 Entry fee: £6 About the competition These competitions are an integral part of the Wells Festival of Literature. The competitions are open to everyone. All entries must be in English. There are four categories: At the time of entry, the work submitted must not have been enteredMore
Entry fee: £18.50 Deadline: May 31, 2025 About the competition Organised by the Yeovil Community Arts Association, this is your opportunity to enter five very different categories of writing. Aspiring writers throughout the world should enter this prestigious writing competition. Competition guidelineMore
Deadline: April 20, 2025 Entry fee: €10 About the competition The Eyelands International Short Story Contest is organized by Eyelands.gr. The theme of the contest this year is ‘2025’. Entries must be short stories, of any genre, maximum length is 3, 000 words and must be previously unpublished in a book. EntriesMore
Deadline: May 5, 2025 Entry fee: $20 About the competition The Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize is an annual short fiction competition organized by the Australian Book Review. The competition is open to anyone. This is the sixteenth time the Jolley Prize has run and it is one of theMore
Deadline: April 16, 2025 About the competition Casa África launches the 11th edition of Purorrelato, its micro-story contest that aims to promote literary creation that encourages us to feel and think about Africa and to continue showing different realities that approach us to the continent, away from the stereotypes that have marked it forMore