Competitions | Wells Festival of Literature Discover the latest results from the Wells Festival of Literature's annual international competitions. Explore winning entries across four categories: Open Poetry, Young Poets, Short Story, and Book f...

Wells Festival of Literature is inviting entried from 1 April 2026 until 30 June 2026 in the categories Open Poetry, Short Stories and Book for Children, with prizes totalling £5000.

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Poetry competition 2026 | The Conservators of Ashdown Forest Ashdown Forest is proud to present their 2026 poetry competition in partnership with the Royal Literary Fund and The Ashdown Forest Foundation.

Poetry competition--theme friendship

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CREATIVE FUTURE WRITERS’ AWARD

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Making Writing Work Part 2: Plot Twist On Tuesday, 21 April at 6 PM (GMT), Nick Ahad will chair the Royal Literary Fund's second free webinar in the Making Writing Work series.

Free RLF workshop about funding for writers--need to book

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The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2026
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Writing for Animation Lab 2026 - Training Course ScreenSkills

Writing for Animation Lab 2026
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The Alfred Fagon Award is open to any playwright of Caribbean or African descent, permanently resident in the UK, for the best original, new stage play in English.

www.alfredfagonaward.co.uk/awards/2026/

Words a Stage 2026 : Apples and Snakes Word’s A Stage 2026 is Apples and Snakes’ poetic performance development programme for poets aged 21–30.

Poets aged 21-30

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Front of House Assistant | Edinburgh International Book Festival We’re looking for enthusiastic, motivated, and hardworking Front of House Assistants for this year’s festival. Ideally, you’ll have previous experience in

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Then come along on Thursday 23rd for a workshop on writing the Botanical Gothic with the fabulous Artemis Writers, followed by a reading from three remarkable (and very different) poets...

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Even more events coming up! Join us for a screening of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher next Wednesday, at 6.30pm in ARU's Recital Hall, plus a Q&A with the filmmakers.

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Putting these about town today -- laminated railing-huggers to follow next week!

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Second day of time travel poetry games for families.

Poetry games for the family at the Time Travellers' Tea Party today.

And a few pictures of readers at the launch of our latest MA anthology, Strands!

Some shots from Wednesday's Future Karaoke at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Two events happening today! Join us at the Fitzwilliam at 2.30 for poems and stories on ancient weapons, then at the ARU Recital Hall for the launch of the latest MA anthology, Strands!

And here's Strands with our MA anthologies from the last two years.

Newly arrived today, and ready to launch tomorrow evening at the ARU Recital Hall from 6. All welcome!

Just getting the print flyers for this printed today ...

COMMON GROUND NATURE WRITING PRIZE Visit the post for more.

For Working Class Nature writers....
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Short Story Prize under 1000 words...
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Breakthrough Scholarship for LGBTQIA+ Horror Writers This scholarship will award one talented LGBTQIA+ writer a free place on our new nine-week Writing Horror Fiction course with Zoom teaching and professional feedback.

Breakthrough Prize for LGBTQIA horror writers
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Nature Poetry Prize
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Working at the Festival - Cambridge Literary Festival Working at the Festival at Cambridge Literary Festival

Volunteer positions at Cambridge Literary Festival
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Two New Roles on the AHRC Creative Writing Together Project at Goldsmiths - Francis Gilbert I’m delighted to be recruiting for two roles on our AHRC funded Creative Writing Together project at Goldsmiths, University of London. The project explores how creative writing can support reflection,...

Job opportunities on CW project
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After an afternoon Future Karaoke, we'll also be launching our latest MA writing anthology next week, back at the Recital Hall on 25th March at 6.00pm: creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...

Cambridge Writing Centre: Short Story Micro-Festival A FREE workshop and panel discussion with book stall and signings

Book ahead for our FREE Short Story Micro-Festival on 30th April!

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Nature Poetry Prize
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Bookouture to Host the Mo Siewcharran Prize 2026 Hachette UK’s The Future Bookshelf is running the Mo Siewcharran Prize for its sixth year to help discover unpublished fiction writers from Black, Asian, mixed heritage and/or multiple ethnic backg…

Mo Siewcharran Novel Prize
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