by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 7, 2026 1:23 pm – 1:23 pm The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize is renowned and highly regarded for championing and launching the careers of exceptional female writers. Many of the prize’s winners and shortlistees have gone on to become bestselling and...
by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 5, 2026 2:00 pm – 2:00 pm The Marlowe & Christie Novel Prize competition opened on 5th October 2025, with an early-bird discount available until 5th November, and closes on 5th January 2026. The first prize is £1,200, and writers need only submit the...
by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 4, 2026 3:42 pm – 3:42 pm The Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival’s Poetry Competition is open for entries until 4th January 2026. The theme is “In the Garden”. You can write your poems in any format – haiku, sonnet, blank verse etc., but they must be...
by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 3, 2026 6:47 pm – 6:47 pm The Betty Award is a well-established international writing competition designed to encourage creativity in young writers aged 8 to 12. Entries are judged on imagination, originality, and writing style, giving children the...
by APPADy49EnKCNyK12BKsB@ | Nov 28, 2025 | Writing Contests
January 2, 2026 11:32 pm – 11:32 pm The Welkin Writing Prize is an annual competition for microfiction up to 100 words. It is free to enter and aims to be a welcoming space for all writers. The competition is open to all forms of narrative prose (fiction and...