Page Last Updated On: 31 October 2011
Please note that comp details are subject to change. Always check with the organisers for the most up to date details before entering.
10th Jan
The Alan Sillitoe Open Poetry Comp
Poems: 40 lines max. Fee: £3 per poem or 4 for £10. Prizes: £200/£100/£50/£10. Details: web post The Competition Secretary (ASSF), 38 Harrow Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham NG2 7DU.
21st Jan
Novel: 1st 3000 wds + 500-1000 wd synopsis. Theme: Crime. Fee: £25. Prize: £700 and 2 tickets to CWA awards. Details: web post: Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger
PO Box 273, Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, WD6 2XA, UK
30th Jan
Memoir: 4000 wds. Fee: 15 euros online, 17 euros postal. Prizes: 2000 euros (of which 1000 euros is for travel fees to attend launch of anthology). Details: web post Fish Memoir Prize, Durrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland
31st Jan
Biscuit Publishing
'Combo' Prize
1 Story and 1 Flash Fiction: story 1000-5000 wds. You are expected to enter 1 story AND 1 flash fiction piece as a 'combo'. Details: web post
Flash 750 wds max. Fee: £12 per combo (story and flash fiction). Cheques payable toBiscuit Publishing. Prizes: £1500 or publication of your collection/£250/£100/7x£50. Rules: Biscuit Publishing, PO Box 123, Washington, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE37 2YW.
Haiku/Haibun: 3xhaiku. Haibun 100-2500 wds, must contain at
least one haiku. (prospective entrants are strongly advised to see website
for very specific entry procedures that are far too detailed to list here) Fee:£3 for up to 3 haikus, £3 per haibun. Prizes: 2x£125/2x£50 for haiku, 2x£125 for haibun.
Details: web post The Administrator, British Haiku Awards, Newton House, Holt Road, North Elmham, Norfolk, NR20 5JQ, UK
Story: 1500 wds. Theme: Chocolate. Fee: £3. Cheques payable to Choc Lit Ltd (or pay online) Prizes: £200 and a box of chocolates/£50 and a box of chocolates. Details. Web Short Story Competition, Choc Lit Ltd, Penrose House, Crawley Drive, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 2AB.
Chudley Phoenix Short Story Comp
Story: 1500 wds. Fee: £5. Prizes: £100/£50/£25 plus £25 local prize (living in TQ13 postal area). Rules: prize winners will agree to have their stories published on Chudley Phoenix website for up to 12 months after results are announced. Details: web post Chudleigh Phoenix, The Granary, 3 Palace Mill, Rock Road, Chudleigh, TQ13 0JJ, UK.
Story: 6000 wds max. Theme: Science Fiction (organisers are willing to take broad definition of that term). Fee. FREE (but only one entry per person.) Prizes: £200 plus publication in Interzone. Rules: Open only to non-professional authors. For the purposes of this competition a "professional author" is defined as one who is eligible for active membership of the Science Fiction Writers of America - that is a writer with three short story sales to qualifying markets or one novel sale to a qualifying market. Details: web (enter online)
Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Open Poetry comp
Poems: 40 lines max. Fee:£5 per poem. Prizes: £800/£300/£150/4x£75. Details: web post The Competition Organiser, 26 Courtlands, Teston, Maidstone, Kent, ME18 5AS (postal entry only)
Poem: 60 lines max. Theme: Encounters Fee: £3 or 4 for £10 or 6 for
£12. Prizes: £250/£100/£75/2x£10 . Details: web post Competition Secretary, Christopher D Preece, "Wiscasset", 8, Chapel Close, Watersfield, Nr. Pulborough,West SussexRH20 1SA
Sunpenny Open Short Story Comp
Story: 4000 wds.Theme: stories on any subject but must conform to good moral and family values (i.e. no sex, violence or obscene language). Fee: £4. Prizes: £150/£75. Details: web post Sunpenny Open Short Story Competition Mary's Cottage 3 The Limes Froxfield, Wiltshire SN8 3LB UNITED KINGDOM