Your April creative writing competitions!
Win publication and cash prizes.
Looking for a reason to push your writing further? Enter our creative writing competitions for the chance to see your winning entry in print and win a cash prize!
Swanwick 2026
Win a sponsored place at The Swanwick Writers’ Summer School 2026 with writing on the theme of ‘Journey’.
You can enter in three different categories: Fiction (up to 1,000 words), Poetry (up to 40 lines) and Writing for Children (up to 1,000 words). The ‘Journey’ theme can be interpreted in any way.
Character comes first
Write a story around a character who deserves to be centre stage in this month’s contest for stories in any style or genre between 1,500 and 1,700 words.
Show us who your main character is and how that character creates their destiny - we can’t wait to meet these exciting creations!
Humour Poetry competition
Make us snigger, smile or laugh out loud in our competition for funny poems in any form or style - rhymed or free verse, limericks, cautionary tales - we want your comical couplets, laughable limericks, verbal tricks and poetic puns!
Take Flight
Commemorating 50 years since the first commercial supersonic flight, we want your flight-themed stories in any style or genre between 1,500 and 1,700 words. Who or what is flying is up to you, but the theme of flight in some way must be central to your story.
Writing Grand Prize 2026 - Win £1,000 Cash
Win a whopping £1,000 for short fiction in any style and on any theme, up to 2,000 words.
Give yourself the best chance of being placed in our exciting competitions.
Want your writing competition entries to impress judges and win prizes? Here’s everything writers with their eyes on the prize need to know to give their entries the best possible chance of success.
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