The New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2026 is open for entries.
Info: newwriters.org.uk/100-word-com...
Deadline: 30th April 2026
Entry Fee: £10
Prizes: 1st: £1,000; 4x Runners-up: £100 each
Word Limit: 100 words
Charity: 10% of entry fee proceeds donated to Duchenne UK (duchenneuk.org)
Loved it. Great work.
** Deadline alert: 31 Jan 26 **
Link: newwriters.org.uk/flash-fictio...
- Top prize: £1,100
- 10% of entry proceeds donated to charity (funzi.org.uk and @firststory.bsky.social)
- 300 words
Send us your brilliant flash fiction!
#flashfictioncompetition #flashfictioncontent #writingcompetition
We're delighted to announce the winners of our recent Historical Flash Fiction Competition: newwriters.org.uk/historical-f...
Thanks to all who entered (10% of the entry proceeds were split between @firststory.bsky.social & www.funzi.org.uk).
#historicalfiction #flashfiction #writingcompetition
The New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2026 is open to entries. newwriters.org.uk/flash-fictio...
Top prize: £1,100.
Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
10% of proceeds donated to charity, split between @firststory.bsky.social and the Funzi & Bodo Trust
#writingcompetition #flashfiction
Great work!
Thank you Goldfinch Novel Award 2025 & James Mustelier for picking my novel as a runner-up.
Congrats to the winner Anna Kemp, & @dorit-dscarlett.bsky.social & Jess Fitch.
Thanks also to my writer buddies @delgeo14.bsky.social & @juliusolofsson.bsky.social for your brilliant thoughts & advice.
Hi Rhys,
17th October at the latest.
Cheers,
David
London Writers Award now open, great prizes, lovely people and different categories. Also details available in different formats.
Details in link below.
Please share :)
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Writers of historical fiction, check out our new comp: newwriters.org.uk/historical-f...
Deadline: Wednesday, 5th November 2025
Top Prize: £500
Word Limit: 300 words
Charity: 10% of proceeds to First Story & the Funzi & Bodo Trust
Get involved!
#writingcommunity #historicalfiction
Excited to see my 100-word story "Shoulder Season" shortlisted here, a micro started in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop. And congrats to the all of the winners & finalists, including some SmokeLong Fitness Workshop pals!
@newwritersuk.bsky.social
newwriters.org.uk/competitions...
Can't believe my flash 'FLOUR CHILD' received second place (!?!?!) and to see 'RECONNECTION' was shortlisted in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social 100-word writing competition.
Deeply honored and proud to be in a list with so many writers I admire ❤️
newwriters.org.uk/competitions...
Competitions aren't really my thing. But! I'm in the top 10 for the @newwritersuk.bsky.social 100 word story competition! Honoured (and surprised!) for my tiny story to be swanning around with these stunning 100 worders by these brilliant people. Congrats, all! 🥳✍️🤩👏 newwriters.org.uk/competitions...
Possibly the best Friday ever - I saw my eldest off to prom and found out I won first place in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social 100-word writing competition 2025. Eeek. tinyurl.com/3vn7463w
Shortlisted! newwriters.org.uk/competitions... Congrats to the winners + @smokelong.bsky.social pal @alisonwassell.bsky.social for a top 10 place! Her story's so powerful. Submit to @newwritersuk.bsky.social, and support 2 charities, for disadvantaged UK students and combatting poverty in Kenya.
Congrats on making the shortlist, Gill. Thank you for entering.
We're very pleased to announce the winners of the New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2025. Check out the winning entries here: newwriters.org.uk/competitions...
Thank you to everyone who entered & congratulations to the winners and those on the shortlist and longlist.
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Check out this brilliant short story comp with a unique prize... the deadline is coming up fast: 30 June 2025: www.christopherfielden.com/to-hull-and-...
#writingcompetitions #recommended
The New Writers Poetry Competition 2025 is now open!
Details here: newwriters.org.uk/poetry-compe...
Deadline: 17th July 2025
Entry Fee: £10 (£18 for two or £26 for three)
Prizes: 1st: £1,200; 2nd: £300; 3rd: £150; 4th to 6th: £50 each
Head Judge: Katrina Moinet
#poetrycompetition #welovepoetry
The Aurora Prize for Writing 2025 is NOW OPEN! 🎉
Send us your short stories and poetry for the chance to win: £500 cash prize, feedback from a literary agent, free Society of Authors' membership, WEMCONF tickets and more! 😱🚨
Deadline: 6th August 2025 at 11.59 pm.
Enter here 👉 bit.ly/AURORAPRIZE
Congratulations to Raw Lit's contributor Katrina Moinet, whose poetry book 'Portrait of a Young Girl Falling' made the shortlist of Wales Book Of The Year!
Vote for the Wales Book of the Year 2025 People’s Choice Award
nation.cymru/culture/vote...
This June, we're going to hold your hand and kick your butt through starting, middling and finishing your novel.
Also! The best writing community this side of the internet. OBVIOUSLY. Aww yeah!
Come write some amazing words with us ❤️
See the full line up here writershq.co.uk/the-writers-...
Last call for entries... deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Wednesday, 30th April 2025:
newwriters.org.uk/100-word-com...
Prose or poetry welcome from anywhere in the world.
#writingcommunity #writingcompetitions
Thanks Max!
I was pleased as punch to place second in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social 2023 poetry contest with The Fork, a serious meditation on cutlery🍴now included in a new 2025 Anthology dishing up so many amazing poets. Humbled and honored! newwriters.org.uk/anthology-is...
#writing #poetrycommunity
We're delighted to present the inaugural New Writers Anthology: newwriters.org.uk/anthology-is...
It features a selection of prize-winning and shortlisted stories, poems and book reviews from the competitions we ran between 2022 and 2024.
We hope you enjoy it!
#newwriters #writinganthology
The New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2025 results, picked by Shreya Sen-Handley, are out:
Winner (£1,100): First Kiss by Garglestone
2nd (£300): Confetti Letter by Chris Cottom
3rd (£200): The Injecting Capital of Europe by Lisette Abrahams
Full results: newwriters.org.uk/competitions...
The New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2025 is open for entries.
Prizes: 1st: £500; 2nd: £200; 3rd: £100, 4th-10th: £50.
Charity: 10% of proceeds split between First Story and The Funzi & Bodo Trust.
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Details: newwriters.org.uk/100-word-com...
Great work; it's a beautiful story!
