F – Scottish Book Trust 50-Word Fiction Competition. Write a Story Featuring a Rucksack.
We provide a prompt to get you started, but where the story goes from there is entirely up to you.
20 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
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Scottish Book Trust
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PFN – Cape Magazine Seeking Submissions on the Theme: “Excommunicado”
Cape MagazineWe have no genre expectations, just send us something that is utterly you – from beauty to beast, creative non-fiction to allegorical fairy tales – we just want to revel in the potency of your voice.
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PFN – Pocket Guide Seeking Submissions on the Theme: “Pocket Guide to the End”
Pocket GuideWe’re seeking work about the end. Send us your take on the end of a meal, the close of a journey, the end of life, or anything else.
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P – The 2023 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for Poetry
Aesthetica MagazineOpen to submissions on any theme, however, we are particularly interested in pieces that challenge us – that redefine the parameters of form, concept and technique
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F – The 2023 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for Short Fiction
Aesthetica MagazinePast winning pieces have reflected upon both social and political structures, human relationships and experiences. They have pushed the boundaries of imagination – providing new possibilities and ideas.
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F – The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction
Letter ReviewLetter Review believes in the power of literature, and in the importance and magic of new writing.
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P – The Letter Review Prize for Poetry
Letter ReviewA wonderful opportunity for emerging writers to demonstrate their ability and secure publication, and an exciting arena in which established writers can showcase new work and build their reputations.
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N – The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction
Letter ReviewAny and all works which convey information about the real world are welcome, and subjective conclusions are certainly encouraged
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F – The Scottish Arts Trust Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction 2024
Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction£2,000 prize for writers worldwide and stories on any topic up to 250 words
Britain’s biggest flash fiction prize - open to writers worldwide£7 -
PFN – Call for Submissions to The MockingOwl Roost. Theme: “Beauty”
The MockingOwl RoostOur themes are intentionally vague to leave the concept up to the writer’s interpretation.
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PFN – Fox Tales Contest Theme: “Art of Deception”
Fox Tales ContestsShow us truth camouflaged by falsehoods, the blurred line between fact and fiction, or the entanglement of half-truths and illusions.
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PN – Parabola Magazine Seeking Submissions with the Theme: “Comfort & Joy”
Parabola MagazineParabola is a quarterly journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world’s myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the relationship between this store of wisdom and our modern life.
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PFN – Open Call to Superpresent Magazine. Theme: “Naturally”
Superpresent MagazineThe name Superpresent conveys multiple meanings. It could be something very much in the here and now, or something beyond the present state of being or thinking, or something surreal, or it could simply be a great and wonderful gift.
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PF – Lines + Stars: A Journal of Poetry and Short Prose: Seeking Submissions with the Theme: “Red”
Lines + StarsSend us your red, reddening, and red-focused poems and short prose.
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PFN – Beloved: Love Letters to the Beauty of ButchFemme Seeking Submissions on “Flesh”
Beloved ZineIn decay, there is devotion. Through flesh, we express our desire. How does your ButchFemme devotion become realized in the flesh?
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PFN – Exposition Review Seeks Submission on the Theme “Secret” for the Flash 405 Competition
Exposition ReviewFlash 405 is Exposition Review’s multi-genre flash competition, awarding prizes and online publication to the winners!
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P – tiny wren Anthology Series Seeks “The Half-Life of Echoes: Poems about the Power an Fragility of Memories”
tiny wren litMemories can stop us dead in our tracks with their epiphanies. Memories can also be as fragile + fleeting as words that hang for a moment before our face in the cold of a winter’s breath.
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PFN – Call for Submissions to ev0ke: witchcraft + paganism + lifestyle. Theme: “The Afterlife”
ev0ke PublicationEv0king the Question: What do you believe happens to you after death? Is it specific to your practice?
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PN – The Unmooring Journal Seeking Submissions on “Abundance”
The Unmooring JournalIf we abound in grace or in love, what does that look like? What does it mean to live in abundance? What is enough? What unexpected abundance have you found?
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P – Call for Submissions to River Mouth Review. Theme: “Local”
River Mouth ReviewRMR seeks to embody the ecosystem of a river’s mouth: a confluence in time and space where energies from different sources mingle and merge ~ transforming each element, each force, into something altogether new.