The Creative Splurge

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Our squirrels are about out of energy and nuts!
The prompt generator will be shutting down tomorrow, Friday at 9am (BST).
Last call if you want to take part in the flash writing challenge or are hankering for a second set of promptage.
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The Bedford Competition is open for poetry (40 lines) and short stories (3,000 words) until 31 October with a £2,000 prize for the winner of each category.

All the details are here →
https://bedfordwritingcompetition.co.uk/

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Get back to work!! 😄

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We’re currently open for general submissions: send us your horrors, up to 6000 words, including flash.

Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don't agonise over your cover letter (really, don’t).

You MUST submit via our Moksha portal (link in reply). We don’t accept email submissions.

The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2025 - £5,000 writing prize The Bath Children’s Novel Award 2025 is a £5,000 international competition for emerging authors of children’s novels, YA, chapter books and picture book texts.

The Bath Children's Novel Award is open until 30 November with a £5,000 prize for the first 5,000 words of unagented writers' books.

All the details are here →
https://bathnovelaward.co.uk/childrens-novel-award/

#WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS
‪@bathnovelaward.co.uk‬

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The Masters Review's summer short story award is accepting submissions under 6,000 words from new writers up to 7 September. Up to $3,000 in prizes.

All the details are here →
https://mastersreview.com/short-story-award-for-new-writers/

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#TheMastersReview

Weekly Writing Contests - Reedsy Prompts Enter our weekly Writing Prompts Contest for the chance to win $250 and publication on our blog!

Reedsy offers a weekly $250 prize for winners of their prompt-driven writing comp ($5 entry fee).

Next one closes Friday, 8 August!

All the details are here →
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/contests/

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Contest – Off Topic Publishing Guidelines for the Off Topic Contest for writers!

Off Topic Publishing is currently running their August competition, closing 10 August.

Get creating because this month it's Poetry up to 20 lines...!

All the details are here →
https://offtopicpublishing.com/contest/

#WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS
@offtopicpublishing.bsky.social

It does so! They've tabled a great set of prompts for this weekend...

The shortlisted stories are published on the Furious Fiction page and the longlisted stories are mentioned!

Give it a go! Details here:

www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fict...

With no entry fee and a mere 55-hour window, are you ready for August's 500-word Furious Fiction challenge?

Starting Friday 1 August, give it a go! Low stakes, high fun!

All the details are here →
https://www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fiction/

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #TCS #FuriousFiction

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The best kind of robbers 😄

Issue 4 – SUBMISSIONS Submissions Open Submissions for our autumn issue, Machinery, are now open. See below for full submission guidelines for this issue. Please note we are presently unable to provide monetary compensa…

If you're an #aspiringauthor (or even a seasoned professional), submitting your work to journals/magazines is a great way to hone your skills and build your confidence.

And, you know, our submissions are open now. And we're dead nice.

Just saying 😉.

Penstricken.com/submissions

You are most welcome. Love the opportunities this contest offers!

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

—Aristotle

New2theScene are running a Short Story competition for up to 4000 words. You decide the topic!

Exposure, publications and promotion all included in the prizes.

All the details are here →
https://www.new2thescene.co.uk/competition-information/competition-1

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https://darlingaxe.com/pages/first-page-challenge A writing contest for novelists If you want a reader to buy your book or an agent to offer you representation, then it only makes sense to have a stunning first page. That's what the First Page Challenge is all about—we're open to fiction or narrative nonfiction, short stories or full-length manuscripts.  Our judge, Mi

Got a stunning first page ready to grab an agent's attention?

Test it out in The First Page Challenge contest for novelists run by The Darling Axe, closing September 30.

All the details are here →
https://darlingaxe.com/pages/first-page-challenge

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #TCS @darlingaxe.com

Close-up of a piece of Japanese paper featuring cherry blossoms and birds in flight with gold accents. Join us 25-27 July 2025 for a slash fiction competition with a twist. Not quite write prize dot come (that's w r i t e).

2 days until the #NotQuiteWritePrize!

Isn't this paper beautiful? It's from a brand called Kami Paper. It's no good for writing stories on, but that's moot since our submission form is online.

ANYWAY how are you? Well rested? Brimming with ideas?

READY TO WRITE YOUR WAY TO $1,500?

Adaptation Contest - Book Pipeline

Got an unpublished manuscript ready for publishers and agents?

Book Pipeline are running their 2025 Unpublished Contest, closing August 20.

All the details are here →
https://bookpipeline.com/contest/adaptation-contest

#WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS @bookpipeline.bsky.social‬

Book Award & Contest Ratings The Alliance of Independent Authors monitors the literary awards industry in several ways: Our Open Up to Indie Authors campaign urges prestigious prizes and aw

We're delighted that our #Writing Competitions have been rated as excellent by The Alliance of Independent Authors selfpublishingadvice.org/author-award.... Check out our new #FlashFliction competition just launched.

The #NotQuiteWritePrize #WritingCompetition is nearly here 😱😂 ... One of my favourites, it kicks off this Friday ... I might have to sneak away from the planned family gathering as the story ideas coalesce into seamless gibberish 😱😂💜❤️😎
Anyone interested, take a look: notquitewritepodcast.com/prize/

Only days to go before the Not Quite Write Flash Fiction competition prompts are revealed.

Are you burning to take part this coming weekend? Give it a go!

All the details are here →
https://notquitewritepodcast.com/prize/

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Adaptation Contest - Book Pipeline

Published a book, story or comic you'd like to see adapted for Film or TV?

Book Pipeline are running their 2025 Adaptation Contest, closing August 15.

All the details are here →
https://bookpipeline.com/contest/adaptation-contest

#WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS @bookpipeline.bsky.social‬

Two months left to enter the 2025 Best in Rural Writing Contest!

In partnership with @dailyyonder.bsky.social and judged by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social, the #writingcontest is accepting fiction and nonfiction under 7,000 words.

Deadline: September 15th

To enter: themilkhouse.org/contest

Ready to write fiction, but want to start small?

Try out the daily #VSS365 prompt coordinated by @vss365hq.bsky.social‬

One post is all it takes to join the storytellers and wordweavers.

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Eco-fiction writers!!!

Green Stories invites your 500-word flash fiction epiphanies about making a change for the greener by 27 August.

All the details are here →
https://www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fiction-competition-epiphanies-2/

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #TCS @greenstories.bsky.social‬