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Writing Deadlines – 19 New Writing Competitions and Submission Opportunities (Update #47) (opens the original)
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Hello Writers!September is winding down and I can feel a proper autumn chill creeping into the mornings now. The kind that makes a cup of tea and a blank page feel like exactly the right way to spend an evening. This edition is a fresh batch, so you’ll hopefully find plenty here that you haven’t come across before.This week: 19 newly discovered opportunities | Deadlines through April 2027 | Prizes up to £5,000I’ve turned up quite a variety while digging around this time. There’s poetry, personal
Writing Deadlines – 20 Writing Competitions with September and October 2026 Deadlines (Update #46) (opens the original)
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Hello Writers!It’s been a couple of weeks since my last update. I took some time off to rest and recover, and I’m very glad to be back at my desk this weekend. Thank you for still being here.To make up for the break, this week I’ve put together a generous batch of opportunities: 20 competitions and calls for submission with deadlines in September and Otober, spanning short fiction, poetry, flash fiction, novel openings, nature writing, horror, humour, and even haiku. Whatever’s been sitting in y
Writing Deadlines – 19 No-fee (free-to-enter) Competitions and Submission Opportunities (Update #45) (opens the original)
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Hello Writers!There’s still plenty of summer left to enjoy, so if you’ve been putting off that first submission until “things calm down,” here’s your nudge. This week, the opportunities I’m sharing are all free to enter. There are no entry fees and no financial barrier between you and the prize. Just bring your best work.This week: 19 free-to-enter opportunities | Prizes up to £15,000Free-to-enter opportunities are rarer than paid ones, so you might spot a few familiar events below alongside new
Writing Deadlines – 14 New Opportunities (Update #44) (opens the original)
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Hello Writers!This week's line-up is a proper mixed bag — from six-word micros to a themed folio on healthcare and healing, and even a live reading night in London for anyone who fancies performing rather than publishing. Wherever your writing currently sits, there's very likely a deadline in here with your name on it.This week: 14 opportunities | August to November 2026 | Prizes up to $40,000Some of these are worth a single free afternoon; others are worth building toward for months. A fantasy
Writing Deadlines – 15 September Deadlines with Prizes up to $8,000 (Update #43) (opens the original)
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Hello Writers!There’s a quiet shift in the air as summer starts easing into autumn. The evenings drawing in a little earlier, that restless itch that comes with a change of season. It’s the kind of stretch that tends to nudge writers back to the page. This week’s roundup gives you the whole of August and September to work with.This week: 15 opportunities | September 2026 deadlines | Prizes up to $8,000Whatever you write, there’s a home for it here. Six words or sixty thousand – this edition stre
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