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Creative Calendar
From the annual North London Literary Festival, to Writers in Discussion (our regular online series), to writing competitions, to our Creative Writing Masterclasses, there’s plenty to get your teeth into. Start chewing here!
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Date: Rolling, monthly
Audience: All welcome
The famous Stylist magazine is looking for 1000-word short stories in any genre, on an ongoing basis, and they pay a healthy amount!
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Date: Rolling
The VP welcomes the submission of stories and articles (1.5K-6K words) in the genres of SFF, horror and spec fic.
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Audience: all welcome
Enter for free: send up to 200 words, with winners published online.
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Globe Soup invites you to sign up to receive free writing challenges in a range of genres... and there are prizes to win.
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Audience: all welcome
UK’s biggest fantasy gaming convention, always in need of creative writers.
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Submit 1000 words of a novel to this major publisher to have the chance of joining this mentoring scheme... and maybe get a book deal!
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Audience: all welcome
The UK's biggest creative writing competition opens for submissions of flash fiction, stories, poetry and novels in November!
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Audience: all welcome
The London Society is looking for 500-word entries... for which you could win £500.
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Audience: all welcome
If you have a crime or thriller novel, send 2K words to win £10K and a book deal.
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Audience: all welcome
If you're under 35 and have an unpublished novel, you might win £10K via the Society of Authors.
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Audience: all welcome
If you have an unpublished YA novel, submit 5K words and you could win £3000, but it's £29 to enter.
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Audience: all welcome
If you have an eco-novel, send up to 4K words to win £1000 and a book deal.
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Audience: all welcome
Submit 5K words for a chance at the £1000 prize and a possible book deal, but it's £20 to enter.
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Female writers can submit 10K words of a novel, to win £5000 and representation.
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Send up to 4.5K words of your crime novel to the Crime Writers' Association, but it's £36 to enter.
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Audience: all welcome
This world-leading publisher invites you to send 1000 words of your novel, to win a grant, mentoring... and possibly a book deal.
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Audience: all welcome
This publisher is asking for short stories of 2-4K words for two anthologies: Lost Atlantis, and Spirits & Ghouls.
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Audience: all welcome
YA writing competition, with judges from top publishing houses. Send 4K words of a novel to win mentorship and a possible deal!
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Cambridge University Press comp on the theme of 'Why has the rule of law become so fragile?' Enter 3K words for a chance at the $100,000 prize!
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Enter 2K words on the theme of 'love' to win an Arvon course and online publication with this leading organisation.
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Audience: all welcome
Our annual North London Literary Festival, with guest speakers, agents, authors, publishers and more! This year's theme: The Future of Storytelling!