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Creative Writing Award: Win an Arvon Course!

Aesthetica is looking for the best new writing talent. The Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize and is open to poetry and short fiction. Awards include £5,000, publication, subscriptions and more. Enter your work by 31 August.

Neon Literary Magazine: Submissions Open

One of the longest-running independent literary magazines in the UK, Neon is currently open to submissions of poetry, prose and photography on the theme of 'machines'. They prefer darker pieces, especially those with an element of the surreal or speculative, but are open to reading anything and like to be surprised. Deadline: Aug 31

Faber: The Imagined Futures Prize 2022

Faber's new YA science fiction prize is open to entries of novels or collections of short stories for young adults (12–18 year olds) that can be (loosely) defined as science fiction from agented and unagented writers over 18 and resident in the UK (who may or may not already be published). Prizes include a publishing contract. Deadline: 9th September. To apply or learn more please click this post.

RSL Literature Matters Awards 2022: Closing on 24 August

The RSL’s Literature Matters Awards aim to reward and enable literary excellence and innovation. They are given to individual writers or other literary creators, recognising their past achievements and providing them with financial support to undertake a proposed new piece of writing or literary project. Apply by 24th August by clicking on this post.

Ledbury Poetry Competition with Arvon now open for submissions: win £1k and a free Arvon course

Ledbury Poetry has an impressive track record when it comes to recognising fresh talent, and so Arvon is delighted to be working in partnership with this competition to offer a week’s poetry course to this years’ winner. Deadline Wednesday 24th August 2022. Find out more about the competition by clicking on this post.

Watch every event from Commonword’s Black Writers Conference 2021 for FREE

All 7 panel events from Cultureword’s Black Writers Conference are available to watch. Featuring eminent and emerging Global Majority writers discussing the challenges they have faced and overcome in their writing journeys. Hear how Jennifer Makumbi, author of The First Woman, resisted demands to cater for a Western readership; personal stories and reflections from queer poets afshan d’souza-lodhi and Seni Seneviratne; expat experiences from writer Divya Ghelani who lives in Berlin & so much more. To watch, click on this post.