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SUMMARY:New Writers Festive 50-Word Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Friday 12th December 2025\nEntry Fee: FREE to newsletter subscribers (which is also free)\nPrizes: 1st Place: £50 plus one free entry to the New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2026\nPublication: On the NewWriters.org.uk website and in the next New Writers Anthology\nWord Limit: 50 words (excluding title)\nTheme: Festive\nCategory: Flash Fiction / Poetry Competitions\nHow to Enter: Sign up to our free monthly newsletter (if you haven’t already)\, and submit your entry through the form.\n\nThis competition is free to enter\, but entrants must sign up to the NewWriters.org.uk newsletter (use THIS LINK to sign up if you haven’t already). \nOur monthly newsletter includes details of upcoming writing competitions (including our current Flash Fiction Competition with a £1\,100 top prize!)\, along with tips and prompts and other news or offers we think might interest writers. We don’t share subscribers’ information with anyone else. \nYour festive-themed entry of up to 50 words can be prose or poetry. Please give your entry a title that isn’t ‘Festive’ and please don’t include your name on the entry. One entry per person. \nEntry to this free competition assumes you accept the following terms and conditions: \n\nEntries must be the sole work of the entrant and no AI or similar software may have been used to write it. One entry per person.\nEntries must be unpublished\, either in print or online (including social media).\nEntrants must be aged 16 years or older at the time of entry.\nEntries must be related to the theme of ‘Festive’ – though you can interpret that as loosely as you like.\nThe winner of competition will be paid a £50 prize and will receive one free entry to the New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2025 (worth £10\, deadline 31st January 2026).\nResults of the competition will be published in the NewWriters.org.uk newsletter in December 2025 and the winning entry will be published on the website soon after and in the Anthology in 2026.\n\nNew Writers Festive 50-Word Writing Competition 2025 – Entry Form\nYour email *First Name(s) *Last Name *Pen Name or Alias (if applicable)The name you would like us to use if you make the short or longlist (or you win!)Title of Entry *Upload your entry *Choose FileNo file chosenDelete uploaded fileTick to confirm you have read and agree to the competition terms and conditions and that you have signed up to the free New Writers Newsletter. SUBMITPlease do not fill in this field.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/festive-50-word-competition-2025/
CATEGORIES:Flash Fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:The Moth Poetry Prize 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 December 2025\nEntry Fee: €16 per poem\nPrizes: 1st Place: €6\,000; 3x runner-up prizes of €1\,000; 8x prizes of €250 for commended poems\nLine Limit: No limit\nJudge: Ishion Hutchinson (winner of numerous poetry prizes and Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in New York)\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: themothmagazine.com\n\nCompetition Details\nThe Moth Poetry Prize offers a whopping €6\,000 prize\, which is one of the biggest out there for a single poem. There are also three runners-up prizes of €1\,000 and eight prizes of €250 for commended poems.  \nThe competition is open to poems that have never been published\, self-published\, published online or broadcast. Unlike many poetry competitions\, there is no line limit\, and poems can be about any subject you like. \nThe judge for the competition is Ishion Hutchinson\, who is the author of three poetry collections\, is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry\, among others. He is Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in New York and recently published his essay collection\, Fugitive Tilts\, which New York Magazine described as ‘thrilling’. \nThere’s no specific time given for the close of entries on 31 December 2025\, so don’t leave it until the last minute. The cost to enter is €16 per poem and you need to make the payment through PayPal.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/moth-poetry-prize/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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