The Betty Award for Young Writers

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...

The Welkin Writing Prize

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...

The Exeter Novel Prize

January 1, 2026 8:55 am – 8:55 am The Exeter Novel Prize is open for submissions. This prestigious prize welcomes entries in English from all over the world, and is open to all authors who are without representation by a literary agent at the closing date,...

The Danahy Fiction Prize

December 31, 2025 11:38 pm – 11:38 pm The Danahy Fiction Prize is an award of $1,000 and publication in Tampa Review given annually for a previously unpublished work of short fiction. Each entrant also receives one issue of Tampa Review (mailed to any U.S....