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Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize
Word Limit: 4,000
Closes: 31 January 2025
Results: 1 April 2025; Anthology published: July 2025
Entry Fees: €20; €14 subsequent entries
(Optional Critique €56)
Prizes:
1st: €1000
2nd & 3rd: Writing Course (online) + € 300;
Best 10 memoirs published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2025
Judge: Ted Simon
Online writing courses in short story, flash fiction, poetry and memoir;
and full range of editorial services for writers, see www.fishpublishing.com
Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition 2025
Judge: Kit Fan
40 lines maximum per poem
Open to anyone aged 16 or over, from anywhere in the world
Deadline 31 Jan 2025
Seven Prizes from £1000 to £50 plus publication in annual ‘Folio’ anthology
Entry £5 per poem; 3 or more poems £4 each
Details atwww.kentandsussexpoetry.com
Limnisa Short Story Competition
Don’t just dream about it—write your way to paradise
The annual Limnisa Short Story Competition is open for submissions
*Maximum. 1500 words
Deadline: February 2nd, 2025
*Stories in English
*Theme: ‘August Blue’
*Contribution: Free. But please share the competition and follow us on social media
Win a writing holiday with your sort story.
Read the rules: www.limnisa.com
November 25
Bradt Travel Guides & The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards
Unpublished writers
Three finalists invited to attend the prize-giving:
the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Presented by Viking in London in early 2025
1st prize: 4-night break to Pas-de-Calais in northern France, with a tailormade itinerary taking in the region’s towns, coastal villages, countryside and cultural sites.
Winner also commissioned to write an article about their trip,
to be published on the Bradt website, as well as in Traveller magazine.
2 runners-ups: three Bradt guides of their choice.
All shortlisted pieces published on the Bradt website.
Judges: Hilary Bradt, founder of Bradt Guides; Adrian Phillips, MD of Bradt Guides;
Hugh Brune, Commercial Director of Bradt Guides; Amy Sohanpaul, editor of Traveller Magazine; Jonathan Lorie, travel-writing trainer and author of The Travel Writer’s Way.
Theme: ‘A Hasty Exit’
NB, do not use as title but original piece of writing, 600 and 800 words
which focuses on this topic. Not compulsory to include the phrase
but must very clearly adhere to this theme: true story,
based on the writer’s personal experience, written as a first-hand account,
in the first person and in English.
Travel Writing Competition, Bradt Guides, 31A High Street, Chesham, Bucks HP5 1BW
The 39th Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition
Judge: Kim Moore
Deadline: 30 November 2024
Submission: A collection of 20 pages of poetry
Prize: The two winners will receive expert close editing and support in extending their entry
if they wish to up to 28 pages for pamphlet publication
under our award-winning imprint Smith|Doorstop Books.
They also receive £500 each, publication in The North magazine,
and readings at The Wordsworth Trust and online.
Four runners-up receive publication in a feature in The North magazine,
an online reading and an honorarium of £100 each.
Cost: Full-price entry is £29.
Subscribers to The North, Friends of the Poetry Business, and members of the Poetry Society
are eligible for the discounted fee of £27.
All entrants receive a 10% code that can be used to purchase Poetry Book Society membership.
More details:
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/the-international-book-pamphlet-competition/
The 2024 National Poetry Competition
Run annually by The Poetry Society since 1978,
one of the most prestigious poetry competitions for a single unpublished poem
Open to all poets worldwide aged 18 or over
1st prize: £5000
2nd: £2000; 3rd: £1000; commendations: £500 each.
Top three winners published in The Poetry Society’s journal The Poetry Review
Notified by the end of February 2025; awards event, Spring 2025
Judges: Romalyn Ante, John McAuliffe, Stephen Sexton
Fee: £8, then £5 each.
Poetry Society members (including those joining at time of submission): one additional poem free.
Length: 40 lines
Enter online by midnight on October 31
The Bedford Competition
International Short Story & Poetry Awards
Over 17s
Deadline: 31 October 2024
Short Story Competition – up to 3000 words Poetry Competition – up to 40 lines
TBC is a nonprofit group, with donations made to literary causes
Short Story judge: Liv Maidment; Poetry Judge: Jessica Mookherjee
Prizes: £1500, £300 and £200
Cygnature Prizes, sponsored by the University of Bedfordshire, for writers aged 17-25
Also, prizes for local Bedford residents
Entry fees: £8.50 or 3 for £17. Students, £6 or 3 for £12
Details: www.bedfordwritingcompetition.co.uk
Sonnet or Not 2024
Cannon Poets invite you to submit poems of 14 lines –
which may or may not keep close to the sonnet form – (or not at all!)
First Prize: £500
Judge: Deborah Alma
www.cannonpoets.org.uk
or Hon. Sec. Cannon Poets, 22, Margaret Grove, Birmingham, B17 9JH
Closing date 31st October
Ironbridge Festival Poetry Competition
Closing Date: October 20
Open to poets from across the globe, and poems on any and every subject are welcome
1st prize: £300
2nd prize of £125; 3 x 3d prizes of £25 each. Local prize: £50
Maximum length: 35 lines Fee: £4.00; £10.00/3
Judge: Paul Francis
https://pandemonialists.co.uk/ironbridge-poetry-competition-2024/
October 19th, Midnight
Coast to Coast to Coast Individual Poet Prize
Prize: a mini portfolio of poems stitched between unique covers
with a launch in Liverpool during 2025
Submit a manuscript of 12 pages of poetry
Full details below
www.mariaisakova.com/individualpoet-journals-competition
