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SUMMARY:Anthology Nature Writing Competition 2026
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) on 30th September 2026\nEntry Fee: Early bird: €12 per entry (until 31st January 2026); Standard fee: €15 per entry (1st February to 30th September 2026) \nPrizes: 1st Place: €300\, plus publication in the Anthology magazine\nWord Limit: 1\,500 words\nCategory: Non-fiction Competitions\nCompetition Website: anthology-magazine.com/awards/nature-competition\n\nOrganised by Anthology magazine\, this nature writing competition offers the chance to win a tidy top prize of €300 and to gain publication in their stylish magazine. With a maximum of 1\,500 words\, there’s enough room to be relatively expressive whatever aspect of nature you are writing about.  \nSo if you enjoy writing about the natural world\, in whatever form\, this could be the competition for you – and enter before 31st January 2026 for the discounted entry fee.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/anthology-nature-writing-competition/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions
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SUMMARY:The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2026
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 30 September 2026\nEntry Fee: €16 per poem or prose piece\nPrizes: 1st prize €1\,000 and a week at The Moth Retreat; 2nd prize €500; 3rd prize €250\nWord Limit: 4\,000 words (fiction or non-fiction prose) or a single poem of any length\nJudge: Sean Borodale\nCategory: Short Story / Non-fiction / Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: themothmagazine.com/directory/about-the-moth-nature-writing-prize\n\nCompetition Details\nThe Moth Nature Writing Prize is an international prize. It aims to encourage and celebrate the art of nature writing and is awarded annually to unpublished pieces of prose or poetry which best combine exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writers’ relationship with the natural world.  \nThe winners are chosen by a single judge each year\, who reads the stories anonymously. This year’s judge is Sean Borodale\, whose debut collection of poetry Bee Journal\, a two-year poem journal of beekeeping\, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and Costa Book Award. He was selected as a Granta New Poet and a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet. His radio work\, Mighty Beast\, a documentary poem about a cattle market\, won the Radio Academy Gold Award for Best Feature or Documentary.  \nHis poem ‘Notes for an Atlas’\, written while walking around London\, was adapted and directed by Mark Rylance as an eight-night theatre work for Southbank Centre. He has been Honorary Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art and is the current Adrian Brinkerhoff writer-in-residence at Poetry Ireland.\nPrevious judges include Richard Mabey\, Helen Macdonald\, Max Porter\, Kathleen Jamie and Cal Flyn. \nTHE PRIZES \n1st prize €1\,000 and a week at The Moth Retreat\n2nd prize €500\n3rd prize €250 \nThe winning pieces are published in the Irish Times online.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/the-moth-nature-writing-prize/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:Solstice Nature Prize for Young Writers
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on 10th October 2026\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: Winner: £100\, goody bags and anthology publication\nWord Limit: 500 words (Short stories)\, 500 words (blogs)\, 40 lines (poems)\nAge Categories: 7-11\, 12-14\, 15-17 and 18-25 years\nTheme: Nature\, the environment\, or issues related to climate change\nCompetition Website: writingeastmidlands.co.uk/young-writers-groups/solstice-writing-prize/\n\nWriting East Midlands is seeking short stories\, blogs and poems from writers aged 7-25 on the theme of nature. \nThis 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! \nThe 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. \nPrizes include: £100\, goody bags and publication in our online anthology. \nWriting East Midlands is delighted to announce the 2026 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. You can find out more about Gill Lewis here. \nThe Solstice Nature Prize for Young Writers is FREE to enter. The deadline is 10th October 2026 at 11.59 pm. Check out the full details on the competition website.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/solstice-nature-prize-young-writers/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:Eyelands Book Awards 2026
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 20th October 2026\nEntry Fee: €40\nPrizes: Five-day stay in Athens (winners of the Published Books and Writers’ Choice categories); lots more prizes for the various categories\nWord Limit: 250\,000 words / 250 pages (check by category)\nCategory: Novel\, Non-fiction\, Poetry Competitions\nCharity: 1 euro from every submission will be donated to United Nations Refugee Agency Greece\nCompetition Website:  eyelandsawards.com\n\nThe Eyelands Book Awards is running for the eighth year and is open to writers from all over the world. There are several categories to choose from: \nAWARD CATEGORIES (select one per entry application): \nThe following are eligible: \n1/Full-length books of fiction (Novels or novellas of any genre)\n2/Collections of short stories by one author\n3/Collected and selected poems\n4/Historical fiction – Memoir\n5/Children’s and YA books – Graphic Novels\n6/ LGBTQIA+ (texts of any genre with main theme related to the community)\n7/ Sci-Fi – Crime/Thriller – Horror (Novels or novellas)\n8/ Self-published books      \nPRIZES\n– Grand prize (published books): Five-day stay in Athens.\n– Grand prize (writers’ choice): Five-day stay in Athens.\n– Grand prize (unpublished books): Translation into Greek and publication from Strange Days Books.\n– 14 more prizes\, also win a handmade ceramic designed especially for Eyelands Book Awards!\n– Certification document for every prize winner.\n– Online publication for selected texts of prize-winning books.\n– Translation into Greek for poetry & short stories prize winners!\n– Video promotion across our social media for grand prize & prize winners.\n– There will be at least five finalists for each category. \nCheck out the competition site for the full details and to enter.
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SUMMARY:Anthology Travel Writing Competition 2026
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) on 30th November 2026\nEntry Fee: Early bird: €12 per article (1st December 2025 to 31st March 2026); Standard fee: €15 per article (1st April to 30th November 2025) \nPrizes: 1st Place: €300\, plus publication in the Anthology magazine\nWord Limit: 1\,000 words\nCategory: Travel Writing Competitions\nCompetition Website: anthology-magazine.com/awards/travel-writing-competition\n\nOrganised by Anthology magazine\, this travel writing competition offers the chance to win a tidy top prize of €300 and to gain publication in their stylish magazine. With a maximum of 1\,000 words\, there’s enough room to be relatively expansive in your travel tales.  \nSo if you enjoy writing about places you’ve visited\, wherever they might be\, this could be the competition for you – and enter before 31st March 2026 for a discounted entry fee.
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