If you find this page and our site useful, please consider making a small donation through our Ko-fi page. This will help us offer regular free-to-enter competitions and free entries to our paid-entry competitions for those on low incomes.
Please also sign up to our free monthly newsletter. Subscribers gain exclusive access to our free-to-enter competitions, entrance into free prize draws, information about the latest writing competitions and events from around the world and more.
Writing East Midlands is seeking short stories, blogs and poems from writers aged 7-25 on the theme of nature.
This year, Writing East Midlands is seeking 500-word short stories, 500-word blogs or 40-line poems from young writers across the UK—all on the theme of nature, the environment and issues related to climate change!
The Solstice creative writing competition is open to writers aged 7-25, with four age categories to enter (7-11, 12-14, 15-17) and prizes on offer for the first-place winner and five highly commended entries in each category.
Prizes include: £100, goody bags and publication in our online anthology.
Writing East Midlands is delighted to announce the 2025 judge of the Solstice Nature Prize for Writers is Gill Lewis. Gill is the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of children’s nature-themed novels such as Sky Hawk, Sky Dancer, White Dolphin and A Story Like the Wind. Her latest book, Moon Flight, was launched in March 2023 and recently won Waterstones’ Book of the Month. You can find out more about Gill Lewis here.
The Solstice Nature Prize for Young Writers is FREE to enter. The deadline is 31st October 2025 at 11.59 pm. Check out the full details on the competition website.
Details