Competitions

Here you can browse through not only our own competitions, but writing competitions featured in the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook. All competitions uploaded to the Writing Calendar will also feature here.

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W&A Competitions

Writers' & Artists' Short Story Competition 2025
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Enter our free annual short story competition and be in with a chance of winning a place on an Arvon Residential Writing Week (worth £850) as well as seeing your story published on our site.
W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2024
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Are you a writer who identifies as working-class? Looking for an opportunity to get your writing out there? Enter our prize!

WAYB Competitions

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Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour
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Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
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The Queen's Knickers Award

Writing Calendar Competitions

Discoveries
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Discoveries is the Women’s Prize’s writer development programme designed to address the specific challenges that women face as writers.
Marlowe and Christie Christmas Flash Fiction Prize
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Submit a 250 word story inspired by Christmas.
Marlowe and Christie Novel Prize
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Submit the opening 3000 words of your novel. Conventionally published novelists are not eligible to enter.  First Prize £1,100 See www.marloweandchristie.com