Sequestrum ReprintAward Fiction & Nonfiction Closing date: 30th April 2019. Prizes: $200 plus publication Reading fee: $15. Looking for: Fiction and non-fiction, any length; poetry, any length - all previously published elsewhere. Website: https://www.sequestrum.org/contests Tom Howard/John H Reid Fiction and Essay Contest Closing date: 30th April 2019. Prizes: Story: First Prize, $2,000: Essay: First Prize, $2,000. The top two winners will also receive one-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $50 value); 10 Honorable Mentions will receive $100 each (any category); Top 12 entries published online. Entry fee: $20 per entry. Website: https://winningwriters.com/our-contests/ Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest Closing date: 15th May 2019. Prizes: $2,000 in each category, plus publication. Entry fee: $24 Looking for: Fiction and non-fiction, each under 6,000 words; 3-5 pages of poetry Website: https://www.pshares.org/emerging-writers- contest TulipTree Review New Writers Contest Closing date: 23rd May 2019. Entry fee: $20 per entry.. Looking for: Fiction and non-fiction, up to 10,000 words; poems, any length. Prizes: $1,000 and publication. Website: http://www.tuliptreepub.com/tuliptree- review.html The Bodley Head / Financial Times Essay Prize Closing date: 31st May 2018. Prizes:  £1000 and an e-publication with The Bodley Head; Publication of their winning essay in the Financial Times and on FT.com; A mentoring session with The Bodley Head and Financial Times; A subscription to FT.com, and a selection of books from The Bodley Head. Two runners up will win: £500 each and an e-publication with The Bodley Head; A digital subscription to Weekend FT, and a bag of books from The Bodley Head. Entry fee: None stated. Looking for: a dynamic, authoritative and lively essay of no more than 3,500 words in English. Website: https://www.nawe.co.uk/the-bodley-head- financial-times-essay-prize.html The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition Closing date: 1st June 2019. Prizes: See website. Entry fee: Not stated. Open to students born between 2 June 2000 and 2005. Looking for: The theme for 2019 is A Connected Commonwealth. Further info: The competition is open to all citizens and residents of the Commonwealth aged 18 and under. Website: https://thercs.org/youth-and-education/ ALCS Educational Writers' Award 2019 Closing date: 10th June 2019. Prizes: £2,000 award is given annually with the age groups of the works under consideration rotated each year. Free entry. Looking for: Traditionally published non-fiction that enhances learning Website: https://www.societyofauthors.org/ALCS-EWA Wild Words Summer Solstice Writing Competition Closing date: 21st June 2019. Prizes: Publication on the Wild Words website and social media platforms, plus an hour long 1-1 mentoring session. Entry fee: £7.00. Looking for: Write, (or perform and send us the film), a maximum of 1000 words, in fiction or non-fiction prose or poetry, inspired by one of the four quotes on the website. Website: http://www.wildwords.org/competition Cheshire Prize for Literature Closing date: 1st July 2019. Prizes: 12 submissions will be commissioned to produce a 15 minute playscript. Four entries will then be chosen to be performed and judged at a live performance. Entry fee: None stated. Looking for: Original and previously unpublished playscript for theatre, radio or television no more than 15 minutes in length. Website: https://www1.chester.ac.uk/press-office/