The prize is for an unpublished poem, and entrants (over 16) are welcome from anywhere in the world.
The four shortlisted poems will be published in the spring 2021 issue of The Moth and the overall winner will be announced at a special award ceremony at Poetry IrelandThe website of the Irish National Poetry Organisation, offering a resource centre, introductions and readings from new and emerging poets resident in Ireland. www.poetryireland.ie in the spring.
The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry is a major international award for poems embracing ecological themes.
The first prize is £5,000, second prize is £2,000 and third prize is £1,000.
Open to all poets of 18 and over fro all over the world.
Our Judges
The judges are UK Poet Laureate, novelist and activist Simon Armitage and poet, critic and commissioning editor Jade Cuttle.
The Prize aims to highlight the role poetry can play in raising awareness, gaining insight, and provoking concern for the ecological imperatives of our time.
This year, we are launching a separate prize with Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty - the theme will be Landscape, and the £500 prize will be awarded to The Best Poem of Landscape.
The winner of the Ginkgo Prize will be awarded a week-long glamping residency and bespoke rewilding workshop at Knepp Rewilding Safaris
The National Poetry CompetitionAnnual poetry prize run by the UK-based Poetry Society established in 1978; accepts entries from all over the world; over 10,000 poems submitted each year
The 2020 National Poetry Competition is one of the world's most prestigious prizes for an unpublished poem of up to 40 lines, open to anyone internationally who is 18 or over. It is judged anonymously and has been won by celebrated poets and by newcomers.
Ten Prizes
First Prize: £5000 Second Prize: £2000 Third Prize: £1000 Commendations: £200
Every year, the Financial Times and The Bodley HeadRandom House imprint, one of Britain's leading publishers of non-fiction, team up to find the best young essay-writing talent from around the world. Now in its eighth year, The Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize competition has been the springboard for many exciting writers. This year our regular judging panel is joined by the award-winning writer Yiyun Li and leading literary agent Emma Paterson. The judges are looking for 'a dynamic, authoritative and lively essay' up to 3,500 words and written in English. The essay can address any topic and the judges are 'simply looking for writing that brings its subject alive, and turns the reader's head with its style'.
The Bodley Head/FT Essay competition is open to anyone between 18 and 35 years old. The judges are looking for a dynamic, authoritative and lively essay of no more than 3,500 words in English, on any subject. The winner will receive: £1,000 cash and an e-publication with The Bodley Head, publication in the FT of their winning essay and a mentoring session with The Bodley Head. Two runners-up will win £300 cash each and an e-publication with The Bodley Head.
Stuart Williams, publishing director at The Bodley Head, said: "We're delighted to launch this year's prize. Reading hundreds of essays has become a revealing annual litmus test of what's on younger writers' minds, concerns that always range from the extremely timely to the timeless. I expect our profoundly changed world will be the catalyst for a lot of exceptional writing this year."
For complete short stories in any genre for adult /young adult women writers. First Prize 3,000 plus optional week at an Arvon writing centre Entry fee 310
Flash Fiction
Fr complete short fiction narratives in any genre for adults and/or young adult readers First Prize £500 Entry fee £5
Children's & YA novel
For novels of at least 20,000 words in any genre for children and young people Finalists are invited to a pitching and networking event with agents and editors Entry fee £25
Memoir & Life-writing
For prose of at least 50,000 words that narrate events in the author's life Finalists are invited to a pitching and networking event with agents and editors Entry fee £25
The Manchester Writing Competition offers the UK's biggest literary awards for unpublished work, offered by the country's most successful writing school. The Competition was established in 2008 by Carol Ann Duffy (UK Poet Laureate 2009-19) and has awarded more than £195,000 to writers. Each year two £10,000 prizes are awarded: the Manchester Poetry Prize for best portfolio of poems and the Manchester Fiction Prize for best short story. Designed to encourage and celebrate new writing across the globe, the competition is open internationally to new and established writers.
Poetry Prize: £10,000
Entry fee: £18 Deadline for Entries: 18th September 2020, 5pm (UK time)
Chair of Poetry Judges: Malika Booker
£10,000 prize for the best portfolio of three to five poems (maximum combined length: 120 lines). Open internationally to new and established writers aged 16 or over (no upper age limit).
Fiction Prize: £10,000
Entry fee: £18 Deadline for Entries: 18th September 2020, 5pm (UK time)
Chair of Fiction Judges: Nicholas Royle
£10,000 prize for the best short story of up to 2,500 words. Open internationally to new and established writers aged 16 or over (no upper age limit).
Richard Mabey, one of the UK's foremost nature writers, will judge the inaugural Moth Nature Writing Prize. For five decades Richard has been a pioneering voice in modern nature writing, consistently exploring new ways of thinking about nature and its relation to our lives. Throughout his work there is a commitment to writing (and to other writers) and to language, which may be ‘our greatest ecological gift'.
The Prize will be awarded to an unpublished piece of writing - prose fiction, non-fiction or poetry - which best combines exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writer's relationship with the natural world.
The prize is open to anyone over the age of sixteen, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. The winning piece will be published in the winter issue of The Moth, and the winner will receive €1,000 and a week-long stay at The Moth Retreat in rural Ireland. Closing date 15 September 2020.
IN SHORT: 1st prize €1,000 plus a week at The Moth Retreat in rural Ireland. The Moth Nature Writing Prize is open to anyone (over 16) as long as their piece is previously unpublished. The word limit is 4,000 and there is an entry fee of €15. Closing 15 September 2020.
The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre is excited to launch its 2020 International Poetry Competition to celebrate the power of poetry across the world!
Categories: Open and English as an Additional Language.
Deadline: 14 September 2020
£1000 to winners.
The competition is open to both new and established poets aged 18 and over from across the globe and has two categories:
Open category (open to all poets aged 18 years and over) English as an Additional Language (EAL) category (open to all poets aged 18 and over who write in English as an Additional Language)
The winners of each category will receive £1000 and both runners up £200.
This year's judge is the the poet Fiona Benson.
The competition deadline is 11pm BST/10pm GMT on Monday 2 September 2019. It costs £5 to submit one poem or £4 per poem for more than three entries. Each poet can enter a maximum of ten poems. Please follow the instructions in the Oxford Brookes Shop. All entries must be unpublished work.
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that is a hotbed for new talent in Poetry and Short Fiction. Now in its 14th year, the Prize supports both emerging and established writers. By entering, writers can showcase their work to key industry figures and organisations including The Poetry SocietyLively and well-presented UK site supporting poetry with 4,000 members internationally and some thoughtful content. www.poetrysociety.org.uk, Granta, VINTAGE and more.
Winners are selected for both categories and awarded with £1,000. Publication within the Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology, is also awarded to a further 60 writers whose works are highly commended.
Aesthetica is proud to champion new writing talent and supports its writing alumni beyond the Prize, offering print and digital publicity and continued exposure across our channels.
Poetry entries £12 | Short Fiction entries £18 Offer Save 25% Entry Fee: Poetry £9 | Short Fiction £13.50 (Original Fee: Poetry £12 | Short Fiction £18) Offer Ends: Sunday 10 May 23:59 (GMT+1)Submissions close 31 August 2020
Aesthetica is proud to champion new writing talent and supports its writing alumni beyond the Prize, offering print and digital publicity and continued exposure across our channels.
The Kindle Storyteller Award is a £20,000 literary prize recognising outstanding writing. It is open to writers publishing in English in any genre, who publish their work through Kindle Direct Publishing. Readers play a significant role in selecting the winner, helped by a panel of judges including various book industry experts.
The 2020 Kindle Storyteller Award is open for entries between 1st May and 31 August 2020.
The Women Poets' Prize 2020 has opened for submissions.
The prize is awarded every two years to three women writers who each receive a package combining 'financial aid, creative development, well-being, and pastoral support'. This includes a £1000 bursary, a mentor for a year, the offer of pastoral coaching, creative opportunities such as performance and bookbinding, practical support such as digital skills training and childcare cover, and links and collaborations with prize partners. In 2020, the 30 poets on the longlist will receive a year's free membership to the writers' creativity platform Being a Writer.
The judges this year have been confirmed as Liz Berry, Malika Booker and Pascale Petit.
Petit said: "I won't know what I'm looking for until I find it - I'm hoping for surprises! I'm open to work that is beyond my aesthetic and taste, and will read with an adventurous mind. This is such a fantastic prize, where the winners will be nurtured and fully supported with pastoral care as well as top mentors. There are so many new women's worlds to discover, it's exciting to be part of that process and I can't wait for the discussions with my dream co-judges Malika and Liz."
The prize was founded by the Rebecca Swift Foundation. Swift was an editor, novelist, diarist, poet and founder and director of The Literary Consultancy from its beginning in 1996 to her death in April 2017. Her two passions were 'poetry and women's empowerment' and the prize aims to honour them.
'Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.'
