Welcome reader.

Below I am building a listing of competitions outside of Wattpad. predominantly this is so that I have the listing to hand, however I thought it might be useful to you guys also.

I love wattpad, and the awards that are run, however, I have been writing for some time and along my travels I have seen many competitions and wanted to bring them together in one place.

If anyone knows of any they think should be on this list please do drop a comment and I will take a look. I wont add everything as I want the level of the competitions to be high and something to aspire to. Lets get started.

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The Alpine Felowship

Link: https://alpinefellowship.com/prizes
Accepting entries under: Music / Poetry / Philosophy /Theatre / Writing /visual arts
Word counts: Short stories 2500 wrds / Poetry 500 words max
Theme: 'Language'
Deadline: 1st March 2024 at 23:59 (UK time)
PLEASE NOTE: Applicants must be over 18 - Travel to the symposium in Tuscany is requested for the winners

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Stockholm Writers Festival

Link: https://swf-first5pagesprize.submittable.com/submit
Accepting entries under: Short stories
Word counts: first five pages of your book, novel or novella
Theme: Open
Deadline: 10th March 2024
Entry fee: 18 Euros

Bridport Prize

Link: https://bridportprize.org.uk/the-competition/short-story/
Accepting entries under: Poetry/Short story/Flash Fiction/Novel/Memoir
Word counts: Short stories max 5000words / Poetry 42 lines max / Flash 250wrds / Novels dont need to be finished initial 5000 - 8000 wrds and 300 word synopsis - if longlisted they ask for 15000 wrds inc original word count if shortlisted they ask for 30000 inc original word count
Theme: Open
Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on 31st May 2024
Entry fee: £14 per story

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The Bath Novel Award

Link: https://bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-novel-award-2024/
Accepting entries under: Short stories
Word counts: Initial submission 5000 words and one page synopsis for novels that are complete with 50000 words or over.
Theme: Open
Deadline: 31st May 2024
Entry fee: £29.99

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Anthology short story competition

Link: https://anthology-magazine.com/awards/short-story-competition
Accepting entries under: Short stories
Word counts: 1500 wrds max
Theme: Open
Deadline: 31st July 2024
Entry fee: 15 Euros

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Manchester Fiction Prize

Link: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/fiction-prize
Accepting entries under: Short stories and poetry
Word counts: Short story 2500 words / poems 120 lines
Theme: Open
Deadline: 1st September 2023
Entry fee: £18.00