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SUMMARY:South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition - Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) 28th March 2025\nEntry Fee: £3.90 including 30p admin fee\nPrizes: First prize: £75\, Commended: £25\nWord Limit: 800 words\nJudge: Gabrielle Mullarkey\, author of three published novels and nearly 2\,000 short stories\nCategory: Short Story Competitions\nCompetition Website: southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com/competition-2025\n\nThe South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition now has four categories:\n– Fiction\n– Creative Non-fiction\n– Poetry\n– Flash \nThe winner of each category will receive a prize of £75. Each category will also pick one commended entry (and award a prize of £25). The winners and commended writers in each category will also have the opportunity to read their work at the literary festival on 20th September in Leamington Spa.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/south-warwickshire-writing-comp-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition - Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) 28th March 2025\nEntry Fee: £3.90 including 30p admin fee\nPrizes: First prize: £75\, Commended: £25\nWord Limit: 40 lines\nJudge: Gwyneth Box\, children’s author\, award-winning poet\, and workshop facilitator\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com/competition-2025\n\nThe South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition has four categories:\n– Fiction\n– Creative Non-fiction\n– Poetry\n– Flash \nThe winner of each category will receive a prize of £75. Each category will also pick one commended entry (and award a prize of £25). The winners and commended writers in each category will also have the opportunity to read their work at the literary festival on 20th September in Leamington Spa. \nThis would be a fantastic competition for any poet to win\, so get involved today.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/south-warwickshire-writing-comp-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition - Creative Non-Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) 28th March 2025\nEntry Fee: £3.90 includes 30p admin fee\nPrizes: First prize: £75\, Commended: £25\nWord Limit: 800 words\nJudge: Simon Whaley\, freelance writer\, bestselling author and photographer\nCategory: Non-Fiction Competitions\nCompetition Website: southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com/competition-2025\n\nThe South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition has four categories:\n– Fiction\n– Creative Non-fiction\n– Poetry\n– Flash \nThe winner of each category will receive a prize of £75. Each category will also pick one commended entry (and award a prize of £25). The winners and commended writers in each category will also have the opportunity to read their work at the literary festival on 20th September in Leamington Spa. \nWith a low entry fee and the chance to perform your entry\, non-fiction writers should certainly consider entering.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/south-warwickshire-writing-comp-non-fiction/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions
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SUMMARY:Red Shed Poetry Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 28th March 2025\nEntry Fee: £3.50 for the first entry\, £2 extra for each additional entry\nPrizes: 1st Place: £100\, 2nd: £50\, 3rd: £20. Wakefield postcode prize: £25\nWord Limit: 40 lines maximum\nCategory: Marion Oxley\nSole adjudicator: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: currockpress.com/theredshedpoetrycomp\n\nThe Red Shed Poetry Competition 2025 is run by Currock Press (and sponsored by Mocca Moocho Café\,  Wakefield) and is seeking poems of up to 40 lines from anyone aged 16 or older. With a modest entry fee and the option to enter up to five poems\, this could be a great competition to send your unpublished poems. \nCompetition judge Marion Oxley admires “poems that tell me something I don’t already know\, that take me to places I haven’t already been” and “poems that make me think\, challenge preconceptions\, that widen the readers’ horizons”. So get best your best work sent to the Red Shed Poetry Competition before the 28th March 2025.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/red-shed-poetry-competition/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition - Flash
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time) 28th March 2025\nEntry Fee: £3.90 includes 30p admin fee\nPrizes: First prize: £75\, Commended: £25\nWord Limit: 200 words\nJudge: Michael Loveday\, fiction writer\, poet\, and creative facilitator\nCategory: Flash Competitions\nCompetition Website: southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com/competition-2025\n\nThe South Warwickshire Literary Festival Writing Competition has four categories:\n– Fiction\n– Creative Non-fiction\n– Poetry\n– Flash \nThe winner of each category will receive a prize of £75. Each category will also pick one commended entry (and award a prize of £25). The winners and commended writers in each category will also have the opportunity to read their work at the literary festival on 20th September in Leamington Spa. \nWith a low entry fee and the chance to perform your entry\, this competition could be well worth entering.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/south-warwickshire-writing-flash/
CATEGORIES:Flash Fiction Competitions
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SUMMARY:Bath Short Story Award 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: Midnight (UK time)\, 31st March 2025\nEntry Fee: £9\nPrizes: 1st Place: £1\,200; Second prize: £300; Third prize: £100; all shortlisted stories will be published in an anthology (plus more\, see below)\nWord Limit: 2\,200 words\nJudges: Lucy Luck & Liv Bignold (literary agents)\nCategory: Short Story Competitions\nCompetition Website:  bathshortstoryaward.org\n\nThe sister competition of the Bath Novel Award (which has been running since 2013)\, The Bath Short Story Award is a well-regarded contest that gives entrants the chance to bag some generous cash prizes and also have their entry published in the next Bath Short Story Anthology. As well as the prizes mentioned above\, there is a £100 Acorn Award for unpublished authors as well as £50 in book vouchers.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/bath-short-story-award/
CATEGORIES:Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31st March 2025\nEntry Fee: €15\nPrizes: 1st prize €1\,000 plus a week at Circle of Misse in France; 2nd prize €500; 3rd prize €250\nWord Limit: No line limit\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nJudge: Kate Wakeling\nCompetition Website:  thecaterpillarmagazine.com\n\nThe Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2025 is an annual prize for  unpublished poems written by adults for children aged 7–11.  \nThis year’s judge is Kate Wakeling whose work has been awarded the CLiPPA prize for children’s poetry and nominated for the Carnegie Medal and has been praised as ‘clever\, funny\, inspiring’ (The Sunday Times) and ‘both limpidly welcoming and profoundly meaningful’ (Guardian). Her collections have variously been selected as Books of the Month in the Guardian\, The Scotsman and The Sunday Times. \nThe Prize is open to anyone (over 16)\, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. The poems can be on any subject.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/caterpillar-poetry-prize/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:DRF Writers Award 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31st March 2025\nEntry Fee: FREE\nPrizes: 1st Place: £10\,000; Two runners-up: £1\,000 each\nWord Limit: 15\,000-20\,000 words of a work in progress\, fiction or non-fiction\nEligibility: Entrants must reside within the British Commonwealth or Eire\nCategory: Novel Competitions\, Non-fiction Competitions\nJudges: Erica Wagner (chair)\, writer and literary critic; Inua Ellams\, poet\, playwright and curator; Natalie Haynes\, writer and broadcaster\nCompetition Website:  deborahrogersfoundation.org/writers-award\n\nThe 2025 DRF Writers Award\, organised and administered by the Deborah Rogers Foundation\, gives £10\,000 to a previously unpublished writer whose submission of 15\,000- 20\,000 words demonstrates literary talent and who needs financial support to complete their first book. The submitted work can be fiction\, non-fiction\, children’s or short stories. Applicants must reside in the British Commonwealth or Eire. The winner receives £10\,000 and the two shortlisted authors £1\,000 each.  \nThis is a fantastic opportunity for talented writers who need extra financial assistance to enable them to complete their work of fiction or non-fiction. Check the competition website for submission requirements and other information.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/drf-writers-award/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions,Novel Competitions
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