Here you can find information on the latest competitions and awards that are available to writers, as well as a list of annual/regular competitions to add to your calendar.
Latest competition/award news
- Entries now open for Discoveries
- Wigtown Poetry Prize 2020 is now open!
- Kate Nash Literary Agency is looking for science fiction this November
- Alternarratives
- Emerging Writer Award 2020
- McKitterick Prize is open for 2020
- The National Poetry Competition
- Bold Types: Scottish Women’s Creative Writing Competition
- Bridport Writing Prize
- Wigtown Poetry Prize 2019 now open for submissions
- Morton Writing Competition / Farpais Sgrìobhaidh Mhorton
- Big Issue Crime Writing Competition
- Wigtown Poetry Prize 2019 now open for submissions
- W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize
- Aesthetica Creative Writing Award open for entries
- “Conversationally Yours”: A Poetry Collaboration Competition
Annual competitions/awards
Please note that competitions and awards are listed here according to their annual deadlines. If you would like to submit to any of them, bear in mind that you will need to plan ahead of the dates shown. This list will be reviewed and updated regularly.
February:
- Emerging Writer Award (Moniack Mhor)
- Kelpies Prize (children’s fiction)
- Kelpies Illustration Prize (children’s fiction)
- Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award
- Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook Short Story Competition
March:
- Federation of Writers Scotland Vernal Equinox Competition
- International Book & Pamphlet Competition (poetry)
- New Poets Prize
- Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry
May:
July:
- Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
- Gaelic New Writers Awards
- New Writers Awards (Scottish Book Trust)
August:
- Aesthetica Creative Writing Award
- SLAMbassadors (spoken word)
October:
November:
Galloway Writers' Room 