1,000 Word Challenge Closing dates: 30 Nov; 28 Feb; 30 May; 30 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 A3 Review Monthly Themed Competitions, The Closing Date - Last Saturday of each month. Prizes - Publication in the latest edition of the A3 Review literary magazine (printed twice a year). Two winners from each month eligible for overall cash prizes of 1st - £150, 2nd - £75 and third - £50. Entry Fee: £3. Details: The A3 Review's themed monthly contest is brought to you by the folks who make Writing Maps. We believe in words and images, and love a combination of the two. We're looking for prose, poetry, graphic stories, photography, paintings, drawings, and other visual and word-based creations and various combinations of the above. Website: www.writingmaps.com/ 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: £5. Prizes: £100, £50, £25. Quarterly competition for short stories up to 2,000 words. Email: editor@henshawpress.co.uk Website: www.henshawpress.co.uk  Hour of Writes Weekly Writing Competition Closing date: 11pm (GMT) every Friday. Prizes: First Prize: Usually min £50 (increases with more participants). Entry fee: £3. Further info: Word Limit: 2000 words; Theme: New title every week, check website for latest theme. Website: hourofwrites.com 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: http://www.nawg.co.uk/3805/ 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/ 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 dates: See website. Prizes: £200 (First), £75 (Second), £50 (Third), £20 x 3 (High Commendation). The winners and commended poems will receive first publication in Sentinel Literary Quarterly magazine. Entry fee: short stories, £4, £8 for two, £10 for three, £12 for four. Entry fee: poetry, £4/1, £7/2, £9/3, £11/ 4, £12/5, £16/7, and £22 for 10 poems. The competition is for short stories, up to 1,500 words, and poems up to 50 lines. Email: competitions@sentinelpoetry.org.uk 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/  TXTLIT.co.uk Text Message Competition Prize: £50.00 monthly. New competition each month with a different theme. Correct spelling and grammar required, with a maximun text length of 160 characters. Strewth! Is such a thing possible? Entry: £1.00. Vst wbsite 4 dtls: txtlit.co.uk/ 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/ 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/storycomp.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