Writing awards
The Jericho Fellowship Prizes 2019 (Awards: £32,000 + an all-expense paid trip to a symposium) / How To Apply
The Jericho fellowship prize 2019 is open to submissions for emerging and established artists in the following creative art fields: Essay writing Playwriting Visual arts And Innovation. Writers are welcome to submit single submissions or series of pieces in any of the aforementioned genres. No entry fee is required. Winners will receive mouth-watering cash prizes […]
Theme For The Short Short Story Day Africa Prize 2019 Has Announced / How To Apply (Prizes: $1000 + Publication)
We are glad to announce the theme for the 2019 Short Story Day Africa Prize. This year, Short Story Day Africa is seeking stories that reflect the theme: Disruption. They are particularly interested in stories about climate (and environmental) disruption. They are also happy to receive stories about other kinds of disruption. Here’s how the […]
The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2019 / How To Apply (Win An All-Expense Paid Trip To London)
Entries are currently being accepted for this year’s edition of The Queen’s Commonwealth Writing Contest. The theme for the Queen’s commonwealth essay competition 2019 is: A Connected Commonwealth. So if you enjoy writing essays, poems or letters, this is your chance to impress the Queen of England and other prolific writers. And who knows? Your […]
Boston Review’s 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story and Annual Poetry Contest—Apply (Award: $500 + Publication)
Ever dreamed of winning the Aura Estrada short story prize and/or the Boston Review Annual Poetry prize? Great! I’ve got good news for you. Both prizes are currently open until the 20th of June 2019. What’s more? There is no entry fee for writers who live outside the US, Canada and Western Europe. Isn’t that […]
2019 Gotham Writers’ 10-Word Short Story Contest—Apply
If you can craft an engaging and compelling micro-fiction in ten words, then you should definitely apply for this free-to-enter writing contest. Here’s a snippet from the press release: It may be apocryphal, but the story goes that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing a short story that ran fewer than ten words. One […]
Online Writing Tips Short Fiction Prize—Apply (Awards: £175 )
The 2019 Online Writing Tips Short Fiction Prize is open. The editors are currently accepting and probably, reading entries for its ongoing free-to-enter contest. What Will The Winners Get? The overall first prize winner will receive a £100 cash prize First runner up will receive £50 cash award The second runner up will get a […]
AFREADAx Africa Writes Competition —Apply (Prize: £200 )
To celebrate the UK’s biggest annual African literature festival in July, AFREADA in partnership with Africa Writes Competition will see participants develop a story about social class based on a passage from the festival co-headliner Chigozie Obioma’s second novel titled, An Orchestra of Minorities. Chigozie Obioma whose first novel, The Fishermen, published in 2015, received […]