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Flash 500 Novel Opening Competition 2025

Deadline: Midnight (UK time) on 31 October 2025

  • Entry Fee: £10 for one novel, £18 for two novels, £26 for three novels (plus £25 per story for an optional critique)
  • Prizes: 1st Place: £500; Runner-up: £200
  • Word Limit: Opening 3,000 words plus a synopsis (of up to 750 words)
  • Category: Novel Competitions
  • Competition Website:  flash500.com/novels

The Bedford Competition – Short Story and Poetry Awards

Deadline: 31 October 2025

  • Entry Fee: £8.50 (or three for £17). Students: £6 (or three for £12)
  • Prizes: 1st: £1,500, 2nd: £300, 3rd: £200
  • Word Limit: Stories up to 3,000 words; poems up to 40 lines
  • Eligibility: Entrants must be aged 17 or older, but from anywhere in the world
  • Category: Short Story Competitions, Poetry Competitions
  • Competition Website: bedfordwritingcompetition.co.uk

Anthology Travel Writing Competition 2025

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Deadline: Midnight (UK time) on 30th November 2025

  • Entry Fee: Very early bird: €10 per article (until 28th February 2025); Early bird: €12 per article (1st March to 30th April 2025); Standard fee: €15 per article (1st May to 30th November 2025)
  • Prizes: 1st Place: €300, plus publication in the Anthology magazine
  • Word Limit: 1,000 words
  • Category: Travel Writing Competitions
  • Competition Website: anthology-magazine.com/awards/travel-writing-competition

Bath Children’s Novel Award 2025

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Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on 30 November 2025

  • Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on 30 November 2024
  • Entry Fee: £29.99
  • Prizes: 1st Place: £5,000; all shortlisted entrants win feedback on their full manuscript; all longlisted entrants win extract feedback; online novel editing course worth £1,800 for one longlisted entrant.
  • Word Limit: Opening 5,000 words plus one page synopsis of children's or YA novel manuscripts, or up to three picture book texts
  • Category: Children's Novel Competitions
  • Competition Website:  bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-novel-award

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