1,000 Word Challenge
Closing dates: 30th Nov; 28th Feb; 30th May; 30th
Aug.
Prizes: £100, £50, £25.
Entry fee: £5.
Looking for: Themed quarterly competition for stories
up to 1,000 words.
Emall: contact@1000wordchallenge.com
Website: www.1000wordchallenge.com
Cranked Anvil Media Quarterly Short Story
Competition
Closing dates: 31st January; 30th April; 31st July; 31st
October.
Prizes: Prizes 1st – £150; 2nd – £75; 3rd – £30.
Entry fee: £5 for the first; £3 for the second; £2 for the
third.
Looking for: your story must be a maximum of 1,500
words (not including the title).
Further info: You may enter up to three stories in each
quarterly competition. The three placed stories from
each quarter will be published on the website.
Website: https://crankedanvil.co.uk/shortstory/
Cultured Vultures' Poem of the Week Competition
Closing date: Every Friday weekly.
Prizes: Publication.
Entry fee: Free.
Further info: See website.
Website: culturedvultures.com/poem-week/
Dark Tales Short Story Competition
Closing date: Monthly, last day of each month.
Prizes: £100 for each monthly winner plus publication
in Dark Tales.
Entry fee: £4, £8 with critique, £20 with edit and
critique.
Further details: Ongoing monthly comp for horror and
sci-fi short stories, up to 5,000 words.
Email: sean@darktales.co.uk
Website: http://www.darktales.co.uk
Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest
Closing dates: (Semi-annual) July 31st and December
31st, each year.
Prizes: Writing Contest First Prize is $500. Second
Prize: $250. Third Prize: $100.
Poetry Contest First Prize is $250. Second Prize: $125.
Third Prize: $50.
Entry fees: $5(USD) per poem, $10(USD) per short
story.
Guidelines: The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing
Contest is open to anyone who loves expressing
innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful art
of poetry or writing a short story that is worth telling
everyone! And to all who have the ability to dream.
Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject,
style, or form, typed or neatly hand printed. And/or
write a short story, five pages maximum length, on any
subject or theme, creative writing fiction or non-fiction
(including essay compositions, diary, journal entries
and screenwriting). Also, must be typed or neatly hand
printed.
Multiple poetry and short story entries are accepted.
For more info: dreamquestone.com
Envoi International Open Poetry Competitions
Deadline for submissions - 20th February, 20th June
and 20th October each year.
Prizes: 1st prize £150, 2nd prize £100, 3rd prize £50.
Each winner and three runners up win a complimentary
copy with their poem. The three runners up are also
awarded an annual subscription worth £15. Entry fee:
£3 per poem or five poems for £12. Poems can be in
any style, on any theme up to 40 lines.
More details on website. Cinnamonpress.com/
Flash 500 Flash Fiction Competition
Closing dates: 31st March, 30th June, 30th September
and 31st December.
Looking for: This quarterly open-themed competition is
for fiction up to 500 words.
Entry fee: £5 for one story, £8 for two stories.
Prizes: £300, £200 and £100.
Email: info@flash500.com
Website: www.flash500.com
Henshaw Short Story Competition
Closing date: Quarterly, 30th April, 30th June, 30th
September and 31st December.
Entry fee: £6.
Prizes: £200, £75, £25.
Quarterly competition for short stories up to 2,000
words.
Email: editor@henshawpress.co.uk
Website: www.henshawpress.co.uk
The Monkey Collection
Closing date: Rolling deadlines - see the website for
details.
Prizes: Publication in The Monkey Collective's short
story collection. All entries receive a percentage of the
sales.
Entry fee: Free.
Further info: Entries need to be between 1000 and
5000 words, no specific genre. Everyone who enters
can become part of The Monkey Collective, a
collaborative writing group. See our website for further
details.
Website: themonkeycollective.com/join.html
NAWG Open '100' Mini-tale Competition
Rolling competition for flash fiction of exactly 100
words, will be judged when 100 entries have been
received then start again
Prizes: £75, £25 every 100 entries
Entry fee: £3.00, £5.50 for two, £8.00 for three
Closing date: Never!
Website: https://www.nawg.co.uk/
Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Competition
Closing dates: Last days of February, May, August, and
November (midnight UK time).
Prizes: £1,000, £500, £250 (or the equivalent in the
winner's local currency).
Entry Fee: £7, $9, €9.
Further details: Reflex Fiction is a quarterly
international flash fiction competition for stories
between 180 and 360 words. We publish one story
every day as we count down to the winner of each
competition.
Website: http://www.reflexfiction.com/flash-fiction/
Retreat West Themed Flash Fiction Prize
Closing date: Quarterly. See website.
Prizes: £200, 2 x £100.
Entry fee: £8.
Looking for: Short fiction with the theme of Running
Away.
Further info: Word count: up to 500 max.
Website: http://www.retreatwest.co.uk/
Retreat West Monthly Micro Fiction Competition
Closing date: 9th of month.
Prizes: 1st Prize: 50% of the entry fees received for the
competition (you must have a PayPal account to receive
this), one free entry to our annual Flash Fiction Prize
(top prize £350) and your story published in our Flash
Fiction area of the website.
2nd Prize: One free entry to our annual Flash Fiction
Prize and your story published in our Flash Fiction area
of the website.
Entry fee: £4.
Looking for: 100 words exactly (title not included in
that).
Website: https://www.retreatwest.co.uk/monthly-
micro-fiction-competition/
Ron L Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest
Prizes: every three months: $1,000, $750, $500 plus
annual grand prize: $5,000!
Here's an opportunity for new and amateur writers of
new short stories or novelettes of science fiction or
fantasy. No entry fee is required and entrants retain all
publication rights. All awards are adjudicated by
professional writers only.
Website: Writersofthefuture.com/
Scribble Quarterly Competitions
Ongoing quarterly competitions for short stories, up to
3,000 words
Prizes: £75, £25, £15 in each issue.
Entry fee: £3 (£5 with critique); free for annual
subscribers.
There is no closing date: successful stories are
published in the next issue.
Email: parkpub14@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.parkpublications.co.uk
Sentinel Short Story and Poetry Quarterly
Competition
Closing date: See website.
Prizes: Prizes: £250 (1st), £100 (2nd), £50 (3rd), £30
x 3 (High Commendation), £15 x (Commendation), 3 x
SLQ Paperback (Special Mentions).
Looking for: Poems up to 50 lines.
Entry fee: £5/1, £8/2, £10/3, £12/4, £14/5, £16/7,
£22/10).
Website:
http://sentinelquarterly.com/competitions/poetry/index
.htm
Website: sentinelquarterly.com
Story Planner Monthly Story Plan Competition
Closing date: 15th of every month.
Prizes: Writing books and courses.
Entry fee: Free.
Looking for: Story plans and outlines using the plans at
StoryPlanner.com
Further info: Judge: Joanne Bartley.
Email: competitions@storyplanner.com
Website: blog.storyplanner.com/story-planner-monthly-
competitions/
Telegraph 'Just Back' Travel writing Competition
Closing date: Weekly.
Prize: £200 in your choice of currency.
Entry Fee: None - free to enter.
Looking for: If you are just back from somewhere a
shade more interesting than the local park, the
Telegraph Online would like the gripping details in up to
500 words. You can read previous winners on the
website. A 'voyage' across the Mersey is one of them -
proving that you don't have to write about anywhere
exotic to scoop the prize.
Website: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/just-back-travel-
writing-competition/
Templar Poetry Quarterly Portfolio Awards
Quarterly Award
Closing date: Quarterly.
Entry fee: £12
Prizes: Pamphlet publication
Looking for: A portfolio of 10-12 pages of poetry.
Email: submissions@templarpoetry.co.uk
Website: http://templarpoetry.com
Themed Flash Fiction Competition
Closing date: March, June, September, December.
Prizes: £200; Runner-Up Prize x 2: £100.
Entry fee: £8 for 1 entry.
Looking for: Stories up to 500 words max.
Website:
http://www.retreatwest.co.uk/competitions/quarterly-
themed-flash/
The Writing Quarter Competition
Closing date: Last day of each month.
Prizes: Aus $30.
Free entry.
Further info: Monthly; short stories, up to 3,000 words.
open theme.
Website: https://writingquarter.com.au/competition/
Weekly Poetry Competition
6th Ó Bhéal International Five Words Poetry
Competition.
At around noon each Tuesday (GMT), from April 2018
to the end of January 2019, five words are posted on
the Ó Bhéal Five Words competition page. Entrants
have one week to compose and submit poems that
include all five words given for the week.
The competition runs for 41 weeks, until the last week
of January and a prize of 500 euro is awarded to one
winner, and if available, invited to read at Ó Bhéal's
anniversary event in early April (an additional travel fee
of 100 euro plus B&B accommodation will be provided
for this). Follow the link for submission guidelines:
http://www.obheal.ie/blog/five-words-poetry-
competition/
Writers' Forum Short Story Competition
Closing date: Monthly. Entries arriving too late for one
comp automatically go into the next.
Prizes: £300, £150, £100.
Entry Fee: £6, or £3 for subscribers to the magazine.
Critique - £5 (enclose sae if entering by post).
Looking for: length of between 1,000 and 3,000 words.
For full entry requirements see website: www.writers-
forum.com/comps.html
Writers Forum Poetry Contest
Closing date: Monthly. Entries arriving too late for one
comp automatically go into the next.
Prizes: Prize £100 and a Chambers dictionary.
Entry fee: £4 per poem, or pay £6 and get a short
critique.
Looking for: Poem must be a maximum of 40 lines.
Further details: Poems must be original and
unpublished.
For full entry requirements see website: www.writers-
forum.com/poetrycomp.html
Writers' HQ Flash Quarterly Contest
Closing date: March, June, September, December.
Prize: A year's membership with Writers' HQ, access to
£1000+ of online writing courses and 3 one-day UK
writing retreats.
Entry fee: FREE (though donations to the WHQ 'sponsor
a writer' bursary scheme are very welcome)
Looking for: Flash fiction on any theme up to 500
words. NOTE: please enter stories via the submission
form, not via email. Open internationally.
Email: hello@writershq.co.uk
Website: https://writershq.co.uk/whq-flash-quarterly/
Writing District Monthly Competitions
Closing date: Last day of each month.
Free entry.
Looking for: Short stories, up to 3,000 words. Open
theme.
Prizes: $50.
Website: https://thewritingdistrict.com/
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