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SUMMARY:Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 5 May 2024\nEntry Fee: $35\nPrizes: First prize: publication contract offer from Leapfrog Press and Can of Worms Press (with advance)\nWord Limit: Minimum 22\,000 words\nCategory: Novel Competitions\nCompetition Website: leapfrogprize.org/contest\n\nRun by Leapfrog Press and Can of Worms Press\, Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize is open to unpublished novels. They accept previously unpublished fiction manuscripts (minimum 22\,000 words) of novels\, novellas\, and short-story collections\, and in either adult or YA/Middle-Grade categories. They are seeking literary fiction and mainstream fiction\, including science fiction and the judges tend to be less interested in strict genre fiction\, but if a manuscript is good and grabs the attention\, they will be open to it. \n\nFirst Prize: publication contract offer from Leapfrog Press and Can of Worms Press\, with an advance payment against royalties\, plus the finalist awards (see below).\nFinalists: $150 and critiques of the manuscript from contest judges; permanent listing on the Leapfrog Press and Can of Worms contest pages as a contest finalist.\nSemi-Finalist: Choice of a free Leapfrog or Can of Worms book; permanent listing on the websites.\nHonorable Mention: listing on the Leapfrog Press and Can of Worms Press websites.\n\nThis is a fantastic opportunity for aspiring novelists to skip the agents’ slush pile and get their novel out into the world!
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/leapfrog-global-fiction-prize/
CATEGORIES:Novel Competitions
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SUMMARY:Creative Future Writers’ Award 2024
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on Sunday 19 May 2024\nEntry Fee: Free (or pay what you can)\nEligibility: The competition is only open to underrepresented writers in the UK who are over 18\nTheme: The theme for the 2024 Awards is ‘Reveal’\nPrizes: £23K in cash and professional development (see the Creative Future website for full details)\nWord Limit: Poetry: 50 lines\, Fiction: 2\,000 words\, Creative Non-Fiction: 2\,000 words\nJudges: Wayne Holloway-Smith\, Nina Mingya Powles\nCategories: Short Story\, Poetry\, Creative Non-Fiction\nCompetition Website:  creativefuture.org.uk/for-writers/creative-future-writers-award/how-to-enter\n\nThe Creative Future Writers’ Award is a brilliant writing competition that is open to underrepresented* writers of fiction\, poetry or creative non-fiction. \nUnlike many writing competitions that simply offer a cash prize and publication\, the Creative Future Award has amassed a brilliant package of prizes that includes various writing courses\, literary memberships\, manuscript assessments and coaching from a wide range of highly rated organisations as well as a bit of cash and publication in their anthology too. The full details of the prizes on offer can be found at the Creative Future site. \nSo if you are an underrepresented writer in the UK and you want the opportunity to enhance your writing skills and increase exposure to your work\, this could be the competition for you. \n*The Creative Future Writers’ Award is open to writers who are underrepresented. This includes people who feel their opportunities are limited as a result of: \n\nmental health issues\nBlack\, Asian\, traveller\, mixed heritage or other global majority backgrounds\nLGBTQIA+\nphysical disability\nlong-term limiting illness\nsensory impairment\nlearning disability/dyslexia/dyspraxia\nneurodivergent/ASD/ADHD\nworking class background\nsubstance misuse issue\nsurvivors
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/creative-future-writers-award/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:Bridport Prize - Memoir Award
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on 31 May 2024\nEntry Fee: £24 per entry\nPrizes: First prize: £1\,500; second prize: £750; three further prizes of £150; plus publication and manuscript/extract appraisal\nWord Limit: 8\,000 words max (5\,000 minimum) plus 300-word overview. (Title not included in the word count.)\nJudge: Kit de Waal\, award-winning and Booker-shortlisted writer of six novels\nCategory: Non-fiction Competitions\nCompetition Website: bridportprize.org.uk/the-competition/memoir-award/\n\nCompetition Details\nThe Bridport Memoir Award is for those who have a powerful\, interesting or entertaining story to tell about their own life. \nWhile the £1\,500 top prize is significantly less (and the £24 entry fee significantly more) than for the Short Story Prize\, the doors opened by a win or even a shortlist in the Peggy Chapman-Andrews makes it well worth entering. \nTo enter you need to submit an extract of between 5\,000 and 8\,000 words from the opening chapters of your memoir\, plus a 300-word overview. If you make it to the longlist\, you’ll then need to submit 15\,000 words (including your initial submission); then if you make the shortlist you’ll need to send in a total of 30\,000 words. So\, only enter if you have made significant progress with your memoir. \nThe judge for the memoir competition is Kit de Waal\, who has not only won the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction twice in the past\, but has written a brilliant novel (My Name is Leon) and an outstanding memoir (Without Warning & Only Sometimes). \nAs well as the prizes mentioned above\, the top five entries will receive appraisal from The Literary Consultancy and the winner will also gain a consultation with literary agent A.M. Health and publisher Hachette\, which could prove invaluable (though there are no promises you’ll get a publishing deal out of it!).
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/bridport-prize-memoir/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions
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SUMMARY:Sapere Books Writing Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 May 2024\nEntry Fee: Free\nPrizes: First prize: Publishing contract for a five-book series\nWord Limit: First three chapters plus a synopsis of up to 2\,000 words\nCategory: Novel Competitions\nCompetition Website: saperebooks.com/writing-competition\n\nThis is a writing competition with a difference for authors – or aspiring authors – seeking to establish a long-term partnership with a publisher to produce a series of novels. Sapere Books are seeking a full synopsis (no more than 2000 words) and draft the first three chapters of the first book in the series based on one of the following briefs:\nBRIEF ONE: The Bletchley Park Codebreaker series\nBRIEF TWO: WWII Naval Thriller series\nBRIEF THREE: The Medieval Queens series\nBRIEF FOUR: Age of Sail series\nBRIEF FIVE: The King Arthur Origins series\nBRIEF SIX: The Gothic Houses mystery series\n(Please see the competition site for the full details of each brief.) \nOpen to debut and unpublished writers as well as established writers and ghost-writers\, this is a fine opportunity to get your foot in the publishing door and develop a career as a novelist.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/sapere-books-writing-competition/
CATEGORIES:Novel Competitions
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SUMMARY:Victory Radio Pick of the Pops Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 May 2024\nEntry Fee: £5\nPrizes: Top 10 shortlisted stories will be broadcast on air. In addition\, the winner and two runners-up receive a variety of prizes sponsored by Victory and Portsmouth Authors Collective.\nWord Limit: 600 words\nEligibility: Entrants must reside in the UK\, over 18s only\nTheme: Use a song title from the 1950s to 2000 to inspire your story\nCategory: Short Story Competitions\nCompetition Website: victoryonline.co.uk/pick-of-the-pops/\n\n** Open for entries from 1st May to 31st May 2024 ** \nVictory Online radio and Portsmouth Authors Collective have joined forces to offer a unique opportunity to new and experienced writers to have their work broadcast to thousands. Victory is based in Portsmouth but have listeners all over the UK tuning in on phones\, tablets\, computers and DAB+ radio.  \nThis is a chance to showcase your writing prowess & imagination but there’s a twist! Each story must be inspired by a song title from the 1950s to the 2000s. The top ten shortlisted stories will be broadcast on Victory Radio over a two week period which offers a brilliant opportunity to writers seeking to get their work out there.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/pick-of-the-pops-story-competition/
CATEGORIES:Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:Genesis Emerging Writers Programme
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 May 2024\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: Mentorship\, seminars\, peer support and bursaries to ten emerging writers working in poetry\, fiction and non-fiction.\nWord Limit: 1200 words or 5 pages of poems\nEligibility: Applications are welcomed from emerging writers from all backgrounds\, of any or no faith\, aged over 18 years of age and living in the UK with no more than three years’ experience of being published\, who feel they would benefit from the support and insight of a more established writer.\nCategories: Poetry\, Fiction and Non-fiction\nWebsite: jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/programmes/genesis-emerging-writers-programme\n\nThe Genesis Emerging Writers Programme offers mentorship\, seminars\, peer support and bursaries to ten emerging writers working in poetry\, fiction and non-fiction. The programme is open to emerging writers over 18 years of age and living in the UK with no more than three years’ experience of being published\, who feel they would benefit from the support and insight of a more established writer. \nApplicants should be working\, or planning to work\, on a specific project\, with the aim of publication\, and should be committed to participating fully in all sessions offered by the programme. The Programme runs from 1 June 2024 to 1 April 2025. Grants will be made to successful applications on receipt of bank details. The programme of mentorship is designed to take place online and/or in person\, depending on the preference of the selected writer and their mentor. Group sessions are designed to take place online so that the programme is accessible to all. \nApplications close at 11.59pm time on 31 May 2024. \n To apply\, you must fully complete the online form which asks for:\n– Your personal/contact details;\n– A little about you and your writing project\, including a personal statement\, why you are applying for the programme\, a very brief synopsis of the project you intend to work on throughout the Programme and the genre of your project.\n– An uploaded sample of your writing\, up to 1200 words or 5 pages of poetry\, from the same project or in the same genre. Please make sure your name is not on the document as your writing sample will be judged anonymously. Please check headers/footers etc.\n– An uploaded budget for up to £1\,500 of funding to support your writing in the project you intend to work on throughout the Programme. Please note we will not approve budget requests for the purchase of laptops\, tablets\, mobile telephones or other technological equipment. Click here to view an example budget.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/genesis-emerging-writers-programme/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Novel Competitions,Poetry Competitions,Short Story Competitions
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