writing opps & comps October and beyond

roundup of upcoming writing opportunities and competitions

Hello dear Musers

How is your writing going? Do you have anything ready to submit?

I’ve done the work so you don’t have to!

I hope there is something for you or something you can pass onto another budding writer.

Here’s my roundup of upcoming* writing opportunities and competitions coming up

October

• 1/10/2024 ASA Literary Speed Dating booking opens

• 1/10/2024 Uncharted YA Contest flash and short fiction

• 2/10/2024 Letter Review Prize for Unpublished manuscript, Poetry, Non Fiction and Short Fiction

• 5/10/2024 UQP open for submissions

• 7/10/2024 Peter Porter poetry prize

• 7/10/2024 Penguin Random House open for submission

• 13/10/2024 Griffith Review 4000 fiction or non fiction words (theme of home)

• 14/10/2024 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize

• 20/10/2024 2025 Faber Writing Scholarships

• 25/10/2024 The Writing Prize (for under 40s)

• 27/10/2024 CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize to 1000 words

• 27/10/2024 The Masters 2024 Novel Excerpt Contest

• 31/10/2024 Fabel World Short Story Competition

• 31/10/2024 Ernestine Hill Memo…