Each Event lasts 72 hours and no one knows what that week’s challenge might be until the clock starts. Notes: Theme: The Great Outdoors. Entry Fee: £5 for ! The QSF Flash Contest accepts sci fi, fantasy, paranormal and horror LGBTIQA stories. Entry fee: FREE Payment: $0.08 per word Send a colour photo please of your necessity, plus up to 50 words of explanation. Prizes: 25 pieces will be chosen, and the authors paid £100 each. Notes: Theme: Numbers, Deadline: 10th April 2020 Notes: Theme: Road trip. Word Limit: Fiction: 3,000 words / Poetry: up to 5 poems Requirements: A completed screenplay + cover letter Requirements: 1-3 poems (10 pages max) Entry Fee: $25. Entry fee: $18, Deadline: 13th April 2020 Entry is free for current students at De Montfort University, Loughborough University and University of Leicester) Requirements: Fiction & Nonfiction: 3,000 words / Poetry: up to 6 poems (10 pages max) ‘Writing poetry, working in a café, freelance website design, caring for elderly father, helping run poetry venue’. She looks exactly like her avatar. Entry fee: FREE Deadline: October 6th, 2020 Become a member Word Limit: Fiction & Nonfiction: 5,000 words / Poetry: 3-5 poems Prizes: 1st prize: £1,200 / 2nd prize: £300 / 3rd prize: £100 / Local prize: £50 / Acorn Award: £100 Entry Fee: $20 To help you out, we’ve put together over 90 writing competitions, opportunities, and excellent things with deadlines in April 2020, many of them free-to-enter, most of ’em with cash prizes or other great boons and bonuses. Entry Fee: 1 flash: $5 (includes e-book of prize issue) / 3 flashes: $12 (includes print copy of prize issue). Deadline: 7th April 2020 Deadline: 1st April 2020 Deadline: 30th April 2020 Prize: The winner will have the story recorded by a professional actor and placed on Soundcloud and the soundwork-uk.co.uk website along with a photo. Notes: 87 Bedford is seeking stories that offer a riveting reimagining of a historic time period imbued with fantasy and magic. Prize: A five-day stay in the island of Serifos REVIEW Mine by Alison Knight 30 September 2020 REVIEW When Millypop and her Mummy … Food; ... 15 of the best non-fiction books. Please send a 500-word outline of the story you want to tell for expert feedback from acclaimed memoirist and literary agent Catherine Cho. Bear Necessities Entry Fee: FREE Notes: Entries must be written around the Secret Competition Theme. Prizes: 1st prize: £150 / 2nd prize: £100 / 3rd prize: £50 in each category Features Entry fee: $18 (includes a year’s subscription to New South) Entry fee: FREE It’s us! Line Limit: 30 lines Entry fee: FREE Notes: BBC Writersroom, Red Production Company and Picture Zero Productions will also read the top entries. Search. Deadline: 15th April 2020 But act soon: This one-of-a-kind competition ends on October 6. Jo is a writer who procrastinates about writing by writing about writing. Deadline: 4th April 2020 Notes: Stories must be on a murder mystery theme and include a trench coat, Deadline: 15th April 2020 Requirements: Application + details of your plans for funding and WIP Word Limit: Flash fiction & flash non-fiction: 500 words Submission Stories Participants are free to write in any style as long as it’s non-fiction. Entry Fee: FREE Requirements: Plays and monologues of up to 15 minutes (no more than 4 characters) 15 000 characters with spaces), Deadline: 30th April 2020 Deadline: 13th April 2020 Entry Fee: FREE. Prize: $1,000 Entry fee: $20 (includes one-year subscription to SRPR) Payment: $30 Want to run your own WHQ retreat or want a retreat in your area? Prizes (in each category): 1st prize: £1,000 / 2nd prize: £200 / 3rd prize: £50 They also welcome writers of any level of experience.​, Deadline: 10th April 2020 Prize: 1st prize: £3,000 / 2nd prize: £1,250 / 3rd prize: £750 Length: 1-4 pages MOST POPULAR Notes: Theme: Innovation. We hope there is something here to satisfy every taste :) Entry Fee: FREE Payment: 2 copies of the yearbook Entry fee: FREE Notes: *Deadline extends to June with increased fees. Alternatively send your entry by post to: Word Limit: 150 words Writing Contests & Writing Competitions in 2020: The Definitive Guide A comprehensive and regularly updated list of writing contests in 2020. Word Limit: 1,000-20,000 words d8e312c6-a236-4ea5-9094-7b0c1361acf8 Competition closed | Return to List. Three overall winners of the March till August contests will receive cash prizes: 1st = £250, 2nd = £150, 3rd = £75 The most common type of writing competitions on our list are short story competitions, but we also feature opportunities for poetry, flash fiction, essays, and full manuscripts. Entries open on 15 April and close on 15 June. Deadline: 27th April 2020 Word Limit: Fiction & Nonfiction: 2,500 words / Poetry: up to 3 poems Hello! Newcastle upon Tyne This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Requirements: Original feature-length screenplays (70-160 pages) Food. Prize: $2,000 + 30 copies for the author, publication and distribution of a full-length poetry manuscript with a full-colour perfect-bound cover 3000 words max and a fee of £6 to enter. Word Limit: 1,000 words/5 pages Word Limit: 50 words Notes: All finalists will also be considered for publication, Deadline: 30th April 2020 T is for… Entry Fee: £9 Send us 200-word proposal, plus a brief CV and a published or unpublished example of your writing. Prizes: $500 in each category Entry Fee: £4 for 1 story / £10 for 3. All types of writing are welcome for this writing contest with prizes up to £150 for the winners. Latest Reviews. Word Limit: 3,000 words Prizes: $1,000 in each category Prize: £400 An opportunity to share the amusement, bemusement or torment of your submitting experience – e.g. Word Limit: Up to 3 entries of 300 words Deadline: 18th April 2020 Prizes: $10,000-30,000 in film production financing Four digital issues of the magazine, plus access to our huge digital archives from just £19.99. Authors must be UK based. We’re writing this in the third person!) Mslexia Deadline: 30th April 2020 Prize: $1,000 Prizes: Writing prize: 1st: £10,000, 2nd: £3,000, 3rd: £2,000 / Theatre & Academic writing prizes: 1st: £3,000 / Runners up will be invited to attend the Fjällnäs symposium to exhibit their work, all food and accommodation covered. Entry fee: FREE Word Limit: 2,000 words All stories must be of the Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror genres. Word Limit: 1,000-1,500 words Boulevard Emerging Writers Competition Closing date: All entries must be postmarked before September 30, 2020 or submitted online by midnight CT. Prizes: $1,000. none fiction competitions, non-fiction contests. 4 writers will be invited to final interview to discuss their idea. Requirements: Full-length film screenplays that in some way touch upon ideas around building a sustainable society: 90-120 pages Notes: Submissions must contain a paranormal or supernatural theme, as well as magic realism. Prizes: 1st prize: $1,000 / 2x runners-up: $100 Word Limit: Short stories: 5,000 words / Shorter work: up to 5 pieces  Prizes: 1st prize: $1,000 + 2-year Duotrope subscription / 2nd prize: $250 / 10 x honourable mentions: $100 The Habinteg 2020 Prize competition is open to both academic and non-academic entries. Entry fee: FREE Entry fee: FREE Disabled people are particularly encouraged to enter, as well as students of subjects such as disability studies, occupational therapy, architecture or inclusive design. Notes: Writers must be based in the UK. Entry fee: £5-8 Prizes: 1st prize: $1,000 / 9 runners-up: $100  Deadline: 22nd April 2020 The world hasn’t gone mad! Tell is about an object, organism or ritual that helps with your writing: e.g. Writers’ HQ is run by Sarah and Jo, two micro-sized writers who could never quite get the thing they needed from the huge array of (largely brilliant) writing courses available. Requirements: 12 pages of poetry (24 lines per page) Notes: Theme: Superstition. Entry fee: FREE Notes: Theme: Renewal. Deadline: 19th April 2020 You won’t find out the theme until after you enter, however it will not restrict where you can write about or how you want to interpret travel writing. Entry fee: $20, Deadline: 17th April 2020 Prize: $1,000 Must be between 700-800 words. The Chapter Book Prize 2020. Deadline: 20th April 2020 Notes: ‘General’ submissions includes the range of styles and genres that feature in The Fiction Desk anthologies: literary or general fiction, light supernatural or science fiction, and combinations of those. 120 works will be selected for publication in the QSF anthology, Deadline: 13th April 2020 Notes: Authors from all countries eligible except Syria, Iran, North Korea, and Crimea (due to US government restrictions), Opens: 1st April 2020 Prize: Up to 10 shortlisted writers will be invited to a one day pitching master-class and will then have 3 weeks to write up their pitch and series outline. Word Limit: 1,500-10,000 words Writing With Children Notes: Theme: Big Brother. Send us a pitch (pithy description – 100 words max) for a project you’re planning to submit to an agent, editor or producer. Deadline: 20th April 2020 Entry Fee: $15 Payment: $20 Word Limit: 1,000-5,000 words Voices in the Dark are looking for short plays from emerging writers that seek to explore some of the most pertinent socio-political issues affecting the UK today. Entry fee: FREE. Submit any genre – fiction OR nonfiction – to this brand-new contest for your chance to win $1,000 and publication in our magazine. Prizes: 1st prize: £1,000 / 2nd prize: £500 / 3rd prize: £250 / 17 runners-up: £100 Features We always welcome ideas for one-off features, and entries are considered on a rolling basis. Notes: Theme: Dissent. Word limit: 2,000 words Word Limit: 2,500 words Entry fee: FREE Requirements: Up to 3 poems (10 pages max) Writing Competitions/Submission Opportunities, $15 for first entry (up to 3 poems), $3 per poem thereafter, Lists of Writing Competitions and Other Opportunities - Louise Tondeur: Writer, ONLINE WRITERS' RETREATS FOR WRITERS IN LOCKDOWN, Yes please to the Writers' HQ newsletter of joy and wonder, The Globe Soup Spring Travel Writing Competition, Society of Authors Grants for Works in Progress, Academy Nicholl Screenwriting Competition, Eyelands 10th International Short Story Contest, Chance Encounters Travel Writing Competition, Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, Green Stories Full Length Screenplay Competition, The Page International Screenwriting Awards, The Julia & Martin Wilson Short Story Prize, Grindstone International Short Story Competition, Coast to Coast: Individual Poet Journal Competition, DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest, The Fiction Desk General Short Story Submissions, The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award, Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Poetry Contest, ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Competition, ScreenCraft Horror Screenplay Competition, Ulyanovsk UNESCO City of Literature International Literary Residency 2020, Worcestershire Litfest Flash Fiction Competition, Third Word Press Great Eighty Challenge (RECURRING), Flash Face Off Prompts (w/c 28th September 2020), Flash Face Off Prompts (w/c 21st September 2020), Flash Face Off Prompts (w/c 14th September 2020), Flash Face Off Prompts (w/c 7th September 2020), 14 Days To A Solid Writing Habit FREE ONLINE WRITING COURSE, Making People: The Characterisation Masterclass, Plotstormers II: The Editing Strikes Back. Guess who that was. Entry fee: FREE But in order to be selected, your first have to pick a competition to enter. Prizes: The BBC Studios Writers’ Academy will give a minimum of eight writers a year’s paid training, with guaranteed commissions on the BBC’s flagship shows as well as the chance to develop an original project with BBC Studios, or one of the BBC’s independent production partners. If non-fiction or journalism is your thing, we have plenty of opportunities to get your voice heard. Entry Fee: £11, Deadline: 30th April 2020 Current letter: T. Max 300 words. Our newest memoir slot, named after the famous Moth memoir performance events in the US and available to sample on the Moth Radio Hour on BBC Radio 4 Extra. “Southampton Arts is a vibrant community within SUNY Stony Brook that gathers together graduate programs in creative writing, children’s lit, podcasting and film. Word Limit: Fiction & Nonfiction: 25 pages / Poetry: up to 3 poems Word Limit: Fiction: 7,500 words / Poetry: up to 3 poems Deadline: 27th April 2020 Notes: A limited number of complimentary entries are available to poets for whom the fee presents a hardship. Entry Fee: $59, Deadline: 30th April 2020 (*early deadline) Deadline: 1st April 2020 Deadline: Various (weekly) Word Limit: 500 words (prose, script or poetry; fiction or non-fiction; a complete story or an extract of a longer work) But we can still find hope and strength and much-needed distraction in fiction. Below is a list of non-fiction, essay, memoir and life writing competitions, awards and prizes from UK, Ireland and Europe — although some are open to writers internationally. Entry fee: FREE Entry Fee: £4 per poem, £12 for 4 poems, £3 per poem thereafter, Deadline: 30th April 2020 Deadline: Rolling Notes: Applicants must have an interest in Russian culture and literature + least one officially published book (fiction or non-fiction) (or screenplay, script or translation from Russian into another language). Requirements: 18-44 pages of prose, poetry, or a combination Requirements: Up to 3 poems Deadline: 15th April 2020 Prize: Free entry to the Bath Flash Fiction Award The prize is split into two separate categories – an award for the best published adventure novel and a award for the best unpublished manuscript by a debut author. Entry fee: FREE Notes: Your character should be in lockdown and feel compelled to speak. Free writing contests for everyone. Couch to 5K Words If you would like a chance to explain how your writing fits in to your life, let us know. Prizes: 1st prize: $100 / up to 3 finalists will also receive the standard writers’ fee Entry fee: FREE The Dos And Don’ts Of Submitting To Writing Competitions And Lit Mags, Making People: Characterisation Masterclass. Requirements: CV + agent details (if applicable) + an original drama script (minimum 30 mins) + a story idea concerning a regular character on one of the Continuing Drama shows (max 1 page) Notes: Theme: Food. Prize: Grand prize: $25,000 + a full fellowship to the Nostos Screenwriting Retreat in Tuscany / Gold prize: $1,000 / Silver prize: $500 / Bronze prize: $250 Deadline: 30th April 2020 Word Limit: 2,200 words We have gathered a list of the best Novel Writing Competitions in 2020 / 2021 for unpublished / unagented authors. Entry Fee: £3 Notes: Optional critique available for an additional $13, Deadline: 30th April 2020 Word Limit: Exactly 80 words The December 2020 magazine (Issue 88) submission deadline is 5 October 2020. The Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize is open until October 31, 2020. Deadline: 19th April 2020 teddy, terrier or tea in your lucky mug. Entry Fee: FREE Line Limit: 50 lines Notes:One or more honourable mentions may also be selected and published. To appear here a competition must run at least every year, ... A competition for fictional adventure writing. I love Little Ms because I can't mislay it, it's always there on my computer till the next one. Win a consultation with literary agent Julia Churchill or children's author Amy Sparkes in our first Chapter Book Prize. Word Limit: 2,000-6,000 words preferred (top limit 10,000) You won’t find out the theme until after you enter, however it will not restrict where you can write about or how you want to interpret travel writing. Daisy Pettles Writing Contest for Women: 12th December: $0-25-45 (sliding income waivers) $1,000 plus a month-long free residency in the Daisy Pettles' Writer's House: Women writers, aged 40+, published OR unpublished: 20 pages of sample writing: Fiction or non-fiction. April Fools! All shortlisted writers will receive 2 free copies of the anthology. Word Limit: 3,000 words Entry fee: FREE, Deadline: 3rd April 2020 The judge for the 2020 prize is Katy Darby. Word Limit: 1,000 words Entry Fee: £8 Word Limit: 250 words For Australia and New Zealand, click here. Entry fee: $20. We want to hear from writers who manage to continue with their creative work despite a particular challenge, e.g. Entry Fee: $22, Deadline: 15th April 2020 If non-fiction or journalism is your thing, we have plenty of opportunities to get your voice heard. Notes: Devouring Earth is looking for stories of massive monsters causing mayhem, from strange things rising from the ocean to dragons emerging from subway tunnels. Requirements: A short monologue (up to 4 mins) for a female character who has had some kind of restriction placed on her liberty Deadline: 30th April 2020 Find An Agent Requirements: Feature screenplays: 75-150 pages / Short screenplays: 7-35 pages / TV pilots: 25-75 pages Please send a 150-word description of your personal blog plus a 200-word excerpt that illustrates your voice and subject matter – and a link, of course. Explore the real world in our creative non-fiction competition. The largest collection of free creative writing contests - hand-picked for writers of all skill levels. Prize: $1,500 new baby, long-term illness, English as a second language, depression, no Wi-Fi connection, family ridicule… Pitch us by stating your main creative genre plus a key ongoing challenge you grapple with in order to continue writing. Prizes: 1st prize: £2,500 + the opportunity to take up a weeklong placement with the Centre for Accessible Environments / 2nd prize: £500 Payment: £20 per 1,000 words Entry Fee: FREE Keep submitting. Write A Synopsis Send your writing stratospheric with all these Writers’ HQ online courses, 15% off writing retreats, and join the Writers’ HQ Secret Retreat for feedback, support and lols. The project might be a memoir, biography, fiction, theatre or screenplay. Prizes: 1st prize: £500 / 2nd prize: £200 / 4x runners up: £50 Line limit: 250 lines The entry fee is £9 with a limited number of free entries available. These are the best writing competitions to enter this year. Entry Fee: FREE. Word Limit: 5,000 words Prize: $1,000 + letterpress publication of the broadside by Omnidawn + 50 free copies Crime poetry competition. Turbocharge Your Creativity There’s no such thing as Coronavirus la la la la la…. Deadline: 1st April 2020 Lookimg for: Nonfiction up to 8,000 words, by writers without a book published. Requirements: 48-80 pages of poetry Requirements: Monologues or single voice plays of no more than 10 minutes Winners will also receive contributor copies and Writing Maps. Prize: $1,000 + 20 copies The contest has two categories: stories in Spanish and stories in English. Discover the finest writing contests of 2020 for fiction and non-fiction authors — including short story competitions, essay writing competitions, poetry contests, and many more. Prizes: 1st prize: $2,000 / 2nd prize: $500 / 3rd prize: $300 Notes:A longlist of a maximum of 20 stories will be published in an anthology. Notes: There is also a prize for entrants under the age of 16. Word Limit: 1,500 minimum Deadline: 9th April 2020 (*regular deadline) Prize: $1,000  14 Days To A Solid Writing Habit Prizes: Grand Prize: $1,000 + a personal introduction to top literary managers / Feature, Pilot & Short category prizes: $500 each Mslexia Moths Notes: Stories must be in response to a weekly prompt posted each Friday at 9.50am. If you’re looking to stick to free writing contests, simply use our filters as you browse. Sign up to our quarterly print magazine here. Entry Fee: $12 See here for guidelines and rates of pay. Find your perfect mslexia Magazine subscription package. Notes: Theme: Appalachian Edge, Deadline: 15th April 2020 Word Limit: Fiction & Creative nonfiction: 5,000 words / Poetry: up to 3 poems (50 lines each)  Notes: Broken Sleep Books is looking for submissions of poetry for our video game anthology. Entry Fee: £3 Thus we present our list of excellent writing competitions based in the UK. Notes: Entries should be about a member or members of royal families from countries around the world. Prizes: 10 prizes of £350 Deadline: 20th April 2020 Deadline: 1st April 2020 Notes: WriteNow is open to any unpublished writers based in the UK and Ireland, who identify as coming from an under-represented background or community. Entry fee: FREE Fiction Factory short story competition . We want works that explore video games and video game consoles starting with the NES in 1985, through to the Dreamcast in 1998 – with all consoles and games in between. Entry fee: FREE Deadline: 30th April 2020 Pitch us by listing your main creative genre plus four other aspects of your working life, e.g. Prize: $5,000 Entry Fee: $75 Requirements: 48-100 pages of poetry Contact mslexia at PO Box 656, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE99 1PZ Entry Fee: £10 Notes: Applicants must be the parent of at least one child under 10 years old, Deadline: 17th April 2020 Deadline: 30th April 2020 Deadline: 13th April 2020 Accepted file types: doc, docx, pdf, pages, rtf, odt. Word Limit: Fiction & Nonfiction: 3,000 words / Poetry: up to 2 pages Entries must be suitable for an audience of children or young people in one of the following targeted age range categories: Cat A: 7-11 yrs / Cat B: 12-14 yrs / Cat C: 15-18 yrs, Deadline: 28th April 2020 Word Limit: 1,500 words Notes: Theme: Dislocation/hyphenation, Deadline: 25th April 2020 Upgrade your subscription, or if you’re thinking of subscribing to Mslexia, jump in and take advantage of our Mslexia Max subscription bundles. Deadline: 15th April 2020 Deadline: 30th April 2020 Entry Fee: FREE (for first entry, £5 for subsequent entries) Deadline: 20th April 2020 Deadline: 1st April 2020 Word Limit: 1,000 words Prize: £1,000 Entry fee: £5-8 Notes: Entries must be written around the Secret Competition Theme. Deadline: 30th April 2020 Deadline: 13th April 2020 One entry only. Word Limit: Fiction & Non-fiction:1,500-7,000 words / Poetry: 3-5 poems (12 pages max) […] The Writers’ HQ website (This list is for April 2020 – again try changing the date in the url) […], Keep your word count up from the comfort of your own sofa. Requirements: Feature screenplays: 75-150 pages / Short screenplays: 7-35 pages / TV pilots: 25-75 pages Notes: Theme: Hope and the human spirit, Deadline: 15th April 2020 Ok, so it’s not a prank. Notes: Entries are welcome from any resident of the UK or overseas student studying at a UK institution. Entry fee: FREE Prize: £200 All contests are free to enter, and you always keep the rights to your work on WriterlyWords.com. tel | email postbag@mslexia.co.uk. Notes: Theme: Forgiveness & retribution, Deadline: 15th April 2020 Plotstormers Send a photo of the place where you work – your desk, armchair, café corner, bath – along with up to 50 words about why it works (or doesn’t work) for you. Prize: $1,200 One for Australian writers. Line Limit: 50 words Short Fiction Prize Overview. Prizes: 1st prize: $200 / 2nd prize: $100 / 3rd prize $50 (Use a pen name if you’re feeling shy.). Deadline: 1st April 2020 Word Limit: 3,000 words Deadline: 30th April 2020 Deadline: 6th April 2020 Submit fiction or non-fiction, 1,000-1,500 words. Prize: €1,000 + one month residency in Ulyanovsk city centrewith a photo. 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