Hello, Blue Sky! We're "welkin on sunshine" to be in this new place.
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
November 19, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Hello, Blue Sky! We're "welkin on sunshine" to be in this new place.
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✍️
It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟
The theme this year is 'Wild'.
Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices
It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟
The theme this year is 'Wild'.
Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices
January 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✍️
It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟
The theme this year is 'Wild'.
Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices
It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟
The theme this year is 'Wild'.
Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V
#WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices
I'm searching for fiction writers who'd be interested in entering some work into a competition!
#writingcompetition #writingprompt #writemore
autumnanthology.substack.com/p/a-haunting...
#writingcompetition #writingprompt #writemore
autumnanthology.substack.com/p/a-haunting...
A Haunting Challenge
Autumn Anthology’s First Prompt-Challenge
autumnanthology.substack.com
October 6, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I'm searching for fiction writers who'd be interested in entering some work into a competition!
#writingcompetition #writingprompt #writemore
autumnanthology.substack.com/p/a-haunting...
#writingcompetition #writingprompt #writemore
autumnanthology.substack.com/p/a-haunting...
For #WritersAndEditors strapped for cash and/or looking for something to keep your brain cells ticking over, try the #Press53 (53-Word #WritingCompetition )🤔💜❤️😎
Anyone interested, look here: www.press53.com/53word-story... 👀
Good luck to everyone taking part 🤞🍀
#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting
Anyone interested, look here: www.press53.com/53word-story... 👀
Good luck to everyone taking part 🤞🍀
#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting
October 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM
For #WritersAndEditors strapped for cash and/or looking for something to keep your brain cells ticking over, try the #Press53 (53-Word #WritingCompetition )🤔💜❤️😎
Anyone interested, look here: www.press53.com/53word-story... 👀
Good luck to everyone taking part 🤞🍀
#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting
Anyone interested, look here: www.press53.com/53word-story... 👀
Good luck to everyone taking part 🤞🍀
#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting
Little reminder: Our #writingcompetition "Tell the Untold" is still looking forward to your contributions—fiction, non-fiction, or academic ✍️
Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
#future #envhum #rethinking #environmentalprotection #rcc #munich #lmu #writing
Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
#future #envhum #rethinking #environmentalprotection #rcc #munich #lmu #writing
May 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Little reminder: Our #writingcompetition "Tell the Untold" is still looking forward to your contributions—fiction, non-fiction, or academic ✍️
Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
#future #envhum #rethinking #environmentalprotection #rcc #munich #lmu #writing
Find out more: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...
#future #envhum #rethinking #environmentalprotection #rcc #munich #lmu #writing
Many congrats to Megan, winner of Guildford Library's 'Summer Reading' short story competition. Megan writes with verve and humour, and I was delighted to share a writing workshop with her this weekend 👏 ✍️ #writingcommunity #youngwriter #library #writingcompetition #shortstory
November 19, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Many congrats to Megan, winner of Guildford Library's 'Summer Reading' short story competition. Megan writes with verve and humour, and I was delighted to share a writing workshop with her this weekend 👏 ✍️ #writingcommunity #youngwriter #library #writingcompetition #shortstory
New submission opportunity with WestWord! Send us your 1000 word stories inspired by the photo!
Win cash prizes and publication in the special edition in February 2024. Please share to let all your writing friends know!
#flashfiction #writingcommunity #writingcompetition
Win cash prizes and publication in the special edition in February 2024. Please share to let all your writing friends know!
#flashfiction #writingcommunity #writingcompetition
1000 Word Photo
A picture paints a thousand words and in this annual competition, we want you to write stories of exactly 1,000 words inspired by the picture prompt below. Deadline: 31st December 2024 Word count: 100...
open.substack.com
November 7, 2023 at 6:37 PM
New submission opportunity with WestWord! Send us your 1000 word stories inspired by the photo!
Win cash prizes and publication in the special edition in February 2024. Please share to let all your writing friends know!
#flashfiction #writingcommunity #writingcompetition
Win cash prizes and publication in the special edition in February 2024. Please share to let all your writing friends know!
#flashfiction #writingcommunity #writingcompetition
Another new submission opportunity is now live at WestWord! An annual prize for historical flash fiction focused on a different era each time. Get all the info and get writing! Please share far and wide!
#flashfiction #writingcompetition #writingcommunity
#flashfiction #writingcompetition #writingcommunity
Past Times Prize
This annual competition is for historical flash fiction stories. Each year we will reveal which time the stories should be set in. Deadline: 31st August 2024 Words: Up to 500 (excluding the title) Ent...
open.substack.com
November 8, 2023 at 5:43 PM
Another new submission opportunity is now live at WestWord! An annual prize for historical flash fiction focused on a different era each time. Get all the info and get writing! Please share far and wide!
#flashfiction #writingcompetition #writingcommunity
#flashfiction #writingcompetition #writingcommunity
📣 Entries have opened in the 11th consecutive year of the First Novel Prize. Head over to www.firstnovel.co.uk to check out what our judges are looking for and send us your best work #amwriting #amediting #amquerying #writingcompetition #fictionwriting #firstnovelprize
February 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
📣 Entries have opened in the 11th consecutive year of the First Novel Prize. Head over to www.firstnovel.co.uk to check out what our judges are looking for and send us your best work #amwriting #amediting #amquerying #writingcompetition #fictionwriting #firstnovelprize
FYI @welkinprize.bsky.social has arrived on Blue Sky.
And also... 🧐
#FlashFiction #WritingCompetition
✍️✒️✏️
And also... 🧐
#FlashFiction #WritingCompetition
✍️✒️✏️
Hello, Blue Sky! We're "welkin on sunshine" to be in this new place.
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
Those of you who stare REALLY HARD at our profile might notice something exciting...
#FlashFiction #Microfiction #WritingCompetition #AmWriting
November 19, 2023 at 5:25 PM
FYI @welkinprize.bsky.social has arrived on Blue Sky.
And also... 🧐
#FlashFiction #WritingCompetition
✍️✒️✏️
And also... 🧐
#FlashFiction #WritingCompetition
✍️✒️✏️
SAVE THE DATE.
Full details 8 July.
Submissions open 1 August.
The Irish Writers Centre International Debut Novel Competition (IDNC)
You may have known me as Novel Fair 😉
#internationalwritingcompetition #debutnovelist #writingcompetition #writingcommunity #novel #writer #literature
Full details 8 July.
Submissions open 1 August.
The Irish Writers Centre International Debut Novel Competition (IDNC)
You may have known me as Novel Fair 😉
#internationalwritingcompetition #debutnovelist #writingcompetition #writingcommunity #novel #writer #literature
July 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
SAVE THE DATE.
Full details 8 July.
Submissions open 1 August.
The Irish Writers Centre International Debut Novel Competition (IDNC)
You may have known me as Novel Fair 😉
#internationalwritingcompetition #debutnovelist #writingcompetition #writingcommunity #novel #writer #literature
Full details 8 July.
Submissions open 1 August.
The Irish Writers Centre International Debut Novel Competition (IDNC)
You may have known me as Novel Fair 😉
#internationalwritingcompetition #debutnovelist #writingcompetition #writingcommunity #novel #writer #literature
We’re crowdfunding via #Kickstarter, to launch a new novel & fund a new free #GreenStories #WritingCompetition It's a #whodunnit including themes of #sustainability #ClimateAction #Environment. Please support us and share across your networks. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dab...
Coming soon: Murder in the Climate Assembly
A novel with drama, comedy, and mystery that sets out a roadmap to a flourishing future. Environmental fiction to save our planet.
www.kickstarter.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We’re crowdfunding via #Kickstarter, to launch a new novel & fund a new free #GreenStories #WritingCompetition It's a #whodunnit including themes of #sustainability #ClimateAction #Environment. Please support us and share across your networks. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dab...
Blast off into a world of imagination! Enter the #ScienceFiction / #Fantasy #IAmWritingComp judged by the lovely @losbennett.bsky.social Unleash your creativity and let your wildest dreams take flight! Enter now! iaminprint.co.uk #WritingCompetition #scifi #amwritingfantasy #amwritingscifi #querying
April 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Blast off into a world of imagination! Enter the #ScienceFiction / #Fantasy #IAmWritingComp judged by the lovely @losbennett.bsky.social Unleash your creativity and let your wildest dreams take flight! Enter now! iaminprint.co.uk #WritingCompetition #scifi #amwritingfantasy #amwritingscifi #querying
If you're polishing up a micro for the #WelkinMini, you might find it useful to think about focus. You've only got 100 words. What is that one idea, that one theme, that single narrative arc?
#FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritingCraft
#FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritingCraft
Finding Focus
Distilling our stories to their purest form
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com
November 26, 2023 at 11:50 AM
If you're polishing up a micro for the #WelkinMini, you might find it useful to think about focus. You've only got 100 words. What is that one idea, that one theme, that single narrative arc?
#FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritingCraft
#FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritingCraft
The Young Walter Scott Prize 2026 is officially OPEN FOR ENTRIES.
www.walterscottprize.co.uk/home/young-w...
#CreativeWriting #HistoricalFiction #WritingCompetition #Writer #Fiction #EnglishTeacher #HistoryTeacher #BookTok #BookSky #YoungWriter #History
www.walterscottprize.co.uk/home/young-w...
#CreativeWriting #HistoricalFiction #WritingCompetition #Writer #Fiction #EnglishTeacher #HistoryTeacher #BookTok #BookSky #YoungWriter #History
HOW TO ENTER -
Who can enter? Anybody aged 11 to 19, resident in the United Kingdom. The Young Walter Scott Prize is awarded to winners of the 11 to 15-year-old category and the 16 to 19-year-old category. What ca...
www.walterscottprize.co.uk
March 26, 2026 at 9:12 AM
The Young Walter Scott Prize 2026 is officially OPEN FOR ENTRIES.
www.walterscottprize.co.uk/home/young-w...
#CreativeWriting #HistoricalFiction #WritingCompetition #Writer #Fiction #EnglishTeacher #HistoryTeacher #BookTok #BookSky #YoungWriter #History
www.walterscottprize.co.uk/home/young-w...
#CreativeWriting #HistoricalFiction #WritingCompetition #Writer #Fiction #EnglishTeacher #HistoryTeacher #BookTok #BookSky #YoungWriter #History
Thanks go to #stratford observer #newspaper for highlighting our #writingcompetition. Every post helps! They’re not on here yet but hopefully our message will get through! 😄 @stratforduponavon.bsky.social @magicalley.bsky.social @stratforddc.bsky.social 🙏🤗
January 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Thanks go to #stratford observer #newspaper for highlighting our #writingcompetition. Every post helps! They’re not on here yet but hopefully our message will get through! 😄 @stratforduponavon.bsky.social @magicalley.bsky.social @stratforddc.bsky.social 🙏🤗
Although I didn't longlist in the #NotQuiteWritePodcast #WritingCompetition I'm okay with that 🤔😊 Every story provides lessons, right? 🤔 I tried something which some may consider 'normal' or 'plain' ... Maybe I should learn to just embrace my dark unhinged side from hereonin 🤔😱🤣🤣🤣
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
August 29, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Although I didn't longlist in the #NotQuiteWritePodcast #WritingCompetition I'm okay with that 🤔😊 Every story provides lessons, right? 🤔 I tried something which some may consider 'normal' or 'plain' ... Maybe I should learn to just embrace my dark unhinged side from hereonin 🤔😱🤣🤣🤣
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
Great to see this in The Bookseller this morning. A writing award specifically for authors over 60. #writingcompetition #Bridport #writers #author
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-wri...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-wri...
New writing award for authors aged 60+ to prove it’s ‘Never Too Late’
A new writing award for authors aged 60+ has launched, and is backed by My Name is Leon (Penguin) author Kit de Waal and agency AM Health.
www.thebookseller.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Great to see this in The Bookseller this morning. A writing award specifically for authors over 60. #writingcompetition #Bridport #writers #author
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-wri...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-wri...
The Foreword Festival is running another Fast Foreword Flash Fiction Competition for 2025! Stories of 400-500 words, any subject or genre. If you live in East Anglia, you are invited to enter – and it's FREE!
Details: forewordfestival.uk/fast-foreword/
#BookSky #Author #Writer #WritingCompetition
Details: forewordfestival.uk/fast-foreword/
#BookSky #Author #Writer #WritingCompetition
February 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The Foreword Festival is running another Fast Foreword Flash Fiction Competition for 2025! Stories of 400-500 words, any subject or genre. If you live in East Anglia, you are invited to enter – and it's FREE!
Details: forewordfestival.uk/fast-foreword/
#BookSky #Author #Writer #WritingCompetition
Details: forewordfestival.uk/fast-foreword/
#BookSky #Author #Writer #WritingCompetition
Get writing, people!
www.henshawpress.co.uk
#writingcommunity #writingcompetition #shortstories #shortstory #weekend #saturday #amauthor #amwriter #amwriting
www.henshawpress.co.uk
#writingcommunity #writingcompetition #shortstories #shortstory #weekend #saturday #amauthor #amwriter #amwriting
May 30, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Do you have flash fiction ready to submit?
flash500.com/flash-fiction/
Our international competition for stories up to 500 words is open for entries.
#flashfiction #writingcompetition #vss
flash500.com/flash-fiction/
Our international competition for stories up to 500 words is open for entries.
#flashfiction #writingcompetition #vss
Flash Fiction Competition
Welcome to the Flash Fiction Competition by Flash 500! This is a flash fiction competition where the prize money truly reflects the skill required to enc...
flash500.com
April 25, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Do you have flash fiction ready to submit?
flash500.com/flash-fiction/
Our international competition for stories up to 500 words is open for entries.
#flashfiction #writingcompetition #vss
flash500.com/flash-fiction/
Our international competition for stories up to 500 words is open for entries.
#flashfiction #writingcompetition #vss
Where could your writing take you?
Poetry. Flash Fiction. Short Story. Novel.
Enter the Bridport Prize for your chance to win, be published, and share your work with a global audience.
Open to writers worldwide.
Enter now: www.bridportprize.org.uk
#WritingCompetition #CreativeWriting
Poetry. Flash Fiction. Short Story. Novel.
Enter the Bridport Prize for your chance to win, be published, and share your work with a global audience.
Open to writers worldwide.
Enter now: www.bridportprize.org.uk
#WritingCompetition #CreativeWriting
April 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Where could your writing take you?
Poetry. Flash Fiction. Short Story. Novel.
Enter the Bridport Prize for your chance to win, be published, and share your work with a global audience.
Open to writers worldwide.
Enter now: www.bridportprize.org.uk
#WritingCompetition #CreativeWriting
Poetry. Flash Fiction. Short Story. Novel.
Enter the Bridport Prize for your chance to win, be published, and share your work with a global audience.
Open to writers worldwide.
Enter now: www.bridportprize.org.uk
#WritingCompetition #CreativeWriting
Flash Fiction
£1,000 first prize.
Up to 250 words. No minimum.
Selected writers published in our anthology.
Open to writers worldwide.
What can you say in 250 words?
Enter now → bridportprize.org.uk
#BridportPrize #FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritersCommunity #AmWriting
£1,000 first prize.
Up to 250 words. No minimum.
Selected writers published in our anthology.
Open to writers worldwide.
What can you say in 250 words?
Enter now → bridportprize.org.uk
#BridportPrize #FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritersCommunity #AmWriting
February 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Flash Fiction
£1,000 first prize.
Up to 250 words. No minimum.
Selected writers published in our anthology.
Open to writers worldwide.
What can you say in 250 words?
Enter now → bridportprize.org.uk
#BridportPrize #FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritersCommunity #AmWriting
£1,000 first prize.
Up to 250 words. No minimum.
Selected writers published in our anthology.
Open to writers worldwide.
What can you say in 250 words?
Enter now → bridportprize.org.uk
#BridportPrize #FlashFiction #WritingCompetition #WritersCommunity #AmWriting
Good evening #writers Just a little post to let you know our #writingcompetition is open ✒️ #flash #poetry #creativenonfiction and good ol’ #fiction 📑 Let’s see your work! Details on the website 👍🏻 @simonwhaley.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Good evening #writers Just a little post to let you know our #writingcompetition is open ✒️ #flash #poetry #creativenonfiction and good ol’ #fiction 📑 Let’s see your work! Details on the website 👍🏻 @simonwhaley.bsky.social @gwynethbox.bsky.social @jaccigooding.bsky.social
1st time longlisting in the #FuriousFiction #WritingCompetition 😎🎉🎊💜❤️
I haven't been writing much lately (IYKYK) but decided I needed to 🤔 ... I took a risk in this story but so glad it paid off 🤗😎
#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritersAndEditors
I haven't been writing much lately (IYKYK) but decided I needed to 🤔 ... I took a risk in this story but so glad it paid off 🤗😎
#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritersAndEditors
April 22, 2026 at 7:53 AM
1st time longlisting in the #FuriousFiction #WritingCompetition 😎🎉🎊💜❤️
I haven't been writing much lately (IYKYK) but decided I needed to 🤔 ... I took a risk in this story but so glad it paid off 🤗😎
#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritersAndEditors
I haven't been writing much lately (IYKYK) but decided I needed to 🤔 ... I took a risk in this story but so glad it paid off 🤗😎
#WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting #WritersAndEditors