New Writing South
Writing Awards and Competitions
Bridport Prize
Annual international writing competition for poetry and short stories. One of
the top prizes of its kind in terms of both prestige and prize money, it has
been the first step in the careers of many established poets and novelists.
The prize money totals £14,000 with a first prize of £5000 for
both poetry and short stories.
Cardiff International Poetry
Competition 2006
The Academi, the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for
Authors, runs the
Competition, and offers
a First Prize of £5000
Cinnamon Press
Short Story Competition
For unpublished fiction writers only.
Chapter
One Promotions International Short Story Competition
Prizes: up to £2,500 plus publication for the top three winners, ten runners
up and five highly recommendedstories
Costa
(formerly the Whitbread) Book
Awards
The Awards has five categories – First Novel, Novel,
Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book. They select one book
from these five as overall Costa
Book of the Year.
Fish
International Short Story Prize
One of the largest international short story competitions. First Prize - €2,500.
Has been running since 1994 They also run poetry, crime, and historical fiction
competitions
Guild of Food
Writers Awards
Numerous awards presented annually in recognition of outstanding achievement.
The awards remain the only awards judged entirely by professional food writers,
journalists and editors..
International Playwriting Festival
Warehouse Theatre, Croydon. Established in 1985, the festival aims to discover,
nurture and promote new theatre writing talent. The competition is for full-length
unperformed plays and is judged by a panel of theatre professionals.
Previous Winners: Previous winners: Simon Smith for Fat Janet Is Dead and Peter
Moffat for Iona Rain
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Largest and most international prize of its kind involving libraries from all corners of the globe, open to books written in any language.
Kraszna-Krausz
Book Awards
Awards recognise publications about film, television and photography.
The
Man Booker Prize
One of the world’s most prestigious awards, now
in its thirty-eighth year. The prize aims to reward the best novel of the
year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
Plough
Poetry Prize
An annual poetry competition run by The Plough Arts Centre in Devon.
Raymond Carver Short Story Award
Write a Story for Children Competition
Twenty Second Annual Competition open to all
amateur writers. Prizes of £2,000 for
the best story submitted.
Writer’s
Digest Short Poetry Competition
U.S. Contest, open worldwide, for
poems of up to 32 lines. Prizes: up to $500.
Writer’s
Digest Short Short Story Competition
U.S. Contest, open worldwide, for stories of up to 1,500 words. Prizes
up to $3,000.
Writers’ Forum
Short Story Competition
Prizes up to £300, with an annual £1,000 for best story
of the year. The competition is open to all nationalities but entries must
be in English.
Deadline is 5th of every month.
Writers’ Forum
Poetry Prize
First prize of £100 and three
runner-up prizes monthly. Closing date: 15th of every month