Page Last Updated: 05 September 2011
Please be aware that all comp details are subject to change. Always check with the organisers before sending in your entry.
1st Oct
Prose or creative non-fiction: 1500 wds. Fee: £4. Prizes: £130/2x£30. Details: web Prolebooks, 15 Maes-y-Dre, Abergele, Conwy, LL22 7HW
Crystal Magazine 10th Birthday comp
Story: 1500 wds. Fee: £4. Prizes: £50 plus publication. Details: web
10th Oct
Creative Competitor Dramatic First Paragraph Writing Comp
First paragraph: No word count stated. Theme: dramatic. Fee: £2. Prizes: £100/£50 Details: web
Mills and Boon New Voices comp 2011
Novel: 1st chapter, 2nd chapter, pivotal moment total wd count for all 10,000 words (see details on website). Fee: FREE. Prizes: 1x Possibility of publishing contract with Mills and Boon, Apple ipad, book hamper/3x editorial consultation, Kindle 3G, book hamper/16 x editorial advice, book hamper. Details: web (no postal entries accepted).
Please note, 10th Oct is deadline for first round. There are later deadlines for those who make the second and third rounds. Details are on the website.
14th Oct
Stringybark Australian History Short Story Award
Story: 1800 wds. Theme: Australian History. Story can be fiction, non-fiction or a mixture of both. Fee: A$9.50 or A$17 for two or A$22.50 for a maximum of three stories. Prizes: A$300 cash, a certificate, publication in hardcopy and/or electronically and a copy of the book/A$125 cash, a certificate, publication
in hardcopy and/or electronically and a copy of the book/A$50
cash, a certificate and publication in hardcopy and/or electronically and a copy
of the book. Details: web
21st Oct
Creative Competitor First Chapter Writing comp
First chapter: 5000 wds max. Fee: £4. Prizes: £300/£200/£100/£50 plus publication for the winner. Details: web
29th Oct
The Ruth Rendell Short Story Comp
Story: 1000 wds. Fee: £10. Prize: £1000 Details: web post Short Story Competition,
InterAct Reading Service, Room 8, Victoria Charity Centre, 11 Belgrave Road,
London, SW1V 1RB.
30th Oct
Fiction Garden Ghost Story Comp
Story: 2500 wds. Theme: Ghosts. Fee: £3 or 2 for £5. Prizes: £100/£40/£20. Details: web
The National Poetry Competition (National Poetry Society)
Poem: 40 lines max. Fee: £6 then £3 for subsequent entries. Prizes: £5000/£200/£1000/7x£100. Details: web post: National Poetry Competition: The Poetry Society, 22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX.
31st Oct
Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards
Poetry collection: 30 poems max. Fee: FREE. Prizes: total £24,000 shared between winners. Rules: Poets must be under 30 years of age at 31st March 2012 and must be British subject by birth. Details: web
National Association of Writers Groups Open Short Story Comp
Story: 500-2000 wds. Fee: £5 and £3 for optional critique by judge Linda Lewis. Prizes: £250/£100/£50. Details: web post NAWG Comp Administrator, 28 Riversdale Avenue, Stakeford, Choppington, Northumberland, NE62 5LE
Novels: Published send in Four Copies (non-returnable). Unpublished: One copy of first 30 pages. Fee: FREE. Prizes: (in 2010) £4000. Rules: open to authors who are over 40 on 31st October 2011. Novel must be full length fictional work, not aimed at children. Novelist cannot have had any other novels published. Details: web
Milton Keynes Speakeasy Short Story and Poetry Comp
Story: 2100 wds max. Poem: 60 lines max. Fee: Poems £3 each (or £10 for 4 poems). Story £4 each (or £10 for 3 stories). Make cheques payable to Speakeasy and mark back with COMP 11. Prizes: £100/£50/£25 in each category. Details: web post SPEAKEASY COMPETITION 2011, 46 Wealdstone Place, Springfield, Milton Keynes, MK6 3JG, United Kingdom