Creative Writing Ink Short Story Competition 2025
Entries can be on any subject, theme or genre.
10 events found.
Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
Events for September 30, 2025
F – The Writers College Short Story Competition. Theme: “All the things we didn’t learn”
Writers are free to interpret the theme in any way they choose.
F – Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction Seeking Submissions on the Theme: Fish | Ngā Ika
We are looking for variety and originality. Tickle us, haunt us, gobsmack us. Choose your words carefully and leave our readers wanting more. And do it in a small space.
F – Call for Submissions to The Ecological Citizen. Theme: Feral Lines (Flash Fiction Only)
Submit your most inspiring and powerful tales of nature's rebounding in no more than 500 words.
FN – Call for Submissions to Plenitude Magazine. Theme: Genre Bender (Canadians Only)
Plenitude Magazine is Canada’s only queer literary magazine. We especially encourage BIPOC, trans, and disabled writers to submit their work.
PFN – Call for Submissions to Fourteen Hills. Theme: Hope is a Discipline
We want your works that show us how you and or your community turn hope into an active practice. From culinary traditions that nourish the fire in your belly to essays on protest – show us what it means to you to make hope into a discipline.
PFN – Pure Slush Great Cities Anthology Series Seeking Submissions. Theme: London
Your submission must include London, whether as a memory, wishful thinking, an anecdote, the setting for your story or poem, a place of importance, or where you live or holiday …
P – The Passionfruit Poetry Prize is back for 2025. This year’s Theme: Love
The theme is love – and it’s yours to interpret as broadly, as interestingly, and as tenuously as you wish.
P – Earth Amulet Poetry Prize. Theme: Nature
The Earth Amulet Poetry Prize™ is an environmental poetry contest that invite poems rooted in the natural world—its landscapes, elements, and living beings.
PFN – Didcot Writers Writing Competition. The Theme: Proximity
You could be close to your one true love, your worst enemy, your child, or someone you didn’t realise was there at the time. You could be close to achieving something, near to death, close to a realisation or approaching the start of a whole new adventure.