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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
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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Date: monthly
Every month, the Scottish Book Trust runs a 50-word flash fiction competition, to win small prizes and publication.
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Audience: all welcome
Send 2.5K-10K words of food writing for a chance to win £1500 and publication.
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Audience: all welcome
The UK’s national sci-fi convention, taking place in Telford.
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Audience: all welcome
Free to enter for low income writers - win £1000 and publication in return for 1-5K words.
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Audience: all welcome
Conference in Oxford run by The Tolkien Society, for fans, scholars and students.
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For writers up to the age of 30, they’re asking you to submit 1500 words about any subject across the spectrum of ecological food, farming and the environment.
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The ‘author of tomorrow’ category is for writers up to the age of 21. Send up to 3K words, to win £1K.
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Audience: all welcome
The UK's BIGGEST creative writing competition, for poetry, stories, novels, the works!
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Audience: all welcome
Art writers can write up to 1500 words, to win £500 and publication.
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