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I Am In Print

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Your moment is waiting - have you entered? iaminprint.co.uk/competitio...

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May 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM Everybody can reply

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I Am In Print

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Guess who’s back? Presenting the 2025 I Am Writing Competitions! Take a look at the dazzling dozen…
#Writing #WritingCommunity #IAmWritingComp #WritingCompetitions #WritingAwards #Querying

March 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM Everybody can reply

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Shaun Tawodi Meeks 🪶

@shaunmeeks.bsky.social

The Critters Poll results are out. Congrats to @jeanirector.bsky.social
My novel place 3rd place for horror novels, which isn't too shabby.
#writer #writerslife #writersofbluesky #awards #writingawards #critterspoll #indieauthor #indiewriter

January 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM Everybody can reply

Iain Aire

@iainaire.bsky.social

Writers Digest self published book awards. Deadline 1st April 2024. www.writersdigest.com/writers-dige...
#Writers #Author #BookSky #BlueSky #WritingCommunity #LiteraryCommunity #SelfPublished #indieAuthor #WritersNetwork #WritingAndBooks #WritingAwards

March 18, 2024 at 4:39 PM Everybody can reply

Iain Aire

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International Bath Novel Awards 2025. bathnovelaward.co.uk #Author #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #BathNovelAwards #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCompetitions #WritingAwards #WriterNetwork #WritingAndBooks #IndieAuthor #SelfPublished #ChildrensBooks

The Bath Novel Awards - international writing competitions

Prestigious international writing competitions for unagented writers of novels and children's books. £10,000 annual prize fund and feedback for all listees.

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March 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM Everybody can reply

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ILLUMINATI GANGA

@illuminati-ganga.bsky.social

And this is the wonderful prize I won for my Poetry!
It's ceramic, and very fragile!!
#poetry #remuneration #writingawards #writing #youdontgetanythingforitbutthatswhatmakesitallworthwhile #awards #recognition #starvation #pity

lady holds up fancy winged Greek looking bit of sculpture, with one hand, evidently hollow. Two other women look at it not knowing how best to let their friend down gently or if they should just mock openly.

June 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM Everybody can reply

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Unleash Creatives / Unleash Lit

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Submit your work in progress! Go to www.unleashlit.com. Only 4 days left to enter!

#writingawards
#ᴡᴏʀᴋɪɴᴘʀᴏɢʀᴇss
#writerswrite
#livingthecreativelife

July 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM Everybody can reply

Michele Helene

@michverilion.bsky.social

3 days to go. Which one will you enter?

#writingcompetitions #writingcomp #writingcontest #writingawards #writingcommunity #writerslife #literaryagent #novel #fictionbooks #writer #author #UKKidlit #UKYA #IAmWriting

I Am In Print @iaminprint.bsky.social · May 13

Did you know there are FOUR I Am Writing competitions accepting Young Adult novels?

Horror - Judged by @jadekavagent.bsky.social
Romance - Judged by Rebeka Finch
YA - Judged by Gyamfia Osei
Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Judged by @losbennett.bsky.social

Enter by 22 May 12pm BST for a chance to impress them.

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ALT: a man in a red shirt is standing in front of a wall of dvds with the words young adult dramas above him

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May 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM Everybody can reply

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Kayleigh Kitt

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Northern Writer's Awards now open for the first submission window. Closing date 12th Jan 26. See website for T&C.

#childrenswriters #writingawards #novelwritingcompetitions

newwritingnorth.com/northern-wri...

Enter - New Writing North

The Northern Writers’ Awards discover and support writers in the North of England, with a focus on supporting new work-in-progress.

newwritingnorth.com

October 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM Everybody can reply

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Jaime b

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Eek! Just submitted to @WritingAwards for Best Novel Opening For Children or Young Adults. Excited and daunted!

August 29, 2023 at 7:23 PM Everybody can reply

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Unleash Creatives / Unleash Lit

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Find us at www.unleashcreatives.net/bookprize

#writingawards
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#writerswrite
#livingthecreativelife

July 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM Everybody can reply

Iain Aire

@iainaire.bsky.social

Self published, why not dream of a Pulitzer? Apparently you can. selfpublishingrelief.com/could-your-s... #Author #Writing #BlueSky #Pulitzer #Indie #WritingCommunity #WritingAwards #SelfPublished

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December 9, 2023 at 9:14 AM Everybody can reply

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Pulp Literature Press

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From The 2024 Magpie Award for Poetry, first-runner up Cicely Grace grounds us within scene and reality in ‘HAVE YOU SEEN PRECIOUS?’. pulpliterature.com/have-you-see...

#poetry #newpoetry #literaryawards #writingawards #poetrycommunity #poetrycontest

‘HAVE YOU SEEN PRECIOUS?’ by Cicely Grace - PULP Literature

Certain Things From The 2024 Magpie Award for Poetry, first-runner up Cicely Grace grounds us within scene and reality in ‘HAVE YOU SEEN PRECIOUS?’. Here's what final judge Renée Sarojini Saklikar had...

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January 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM Everybody can reply

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Kayleigh Kitt

@spellboundscribe.bsky.social

Kindle Storyteller Awards 2025 currently open for entries until 31st May 2025 for published authors. See Amazon/Kindle for further details.

#writingawards #writingcompetitions

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Amazon.co.uk: Storyteller UK

Online shopping from a great selection at Storyteller UK Store.

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May 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM Everybody can reply

Tabitha Rayne

@tabithaerotica.bsky.social

Scottish Arts Trust Flash Fiction Awards was on Saturday night - my story Mermaid was awarded a Highly Commended
Please read all the winners here! www.scottishartstrust.org/results-story

Writing can be lonely, this was so brilliant.

#flashfiction #writingawards #EdinburghWritingAwards #TrueFlash

Edinburgh Writing Awards — Scottish Arts Trust

Edinburgh Flash Ficition and True Flash Results

www.scottishartstrust.org

February 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM Everybody can reply

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Kayleigh Kitt

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The 2025 Giles St Aubyn Awards is now open to non-fiction submissions. The award will close on Monday 1 September 2025 at 5pm. See website for T&Cs.

#writingawards #writingcompetitions #nonfictionwriting

rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...

RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction - Royal Society of Literature

RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction Three annual awards — of £10,000, £5,000 and £2,500 — are available for authors engaged on their first commissioned works of non-fiction. The RSL Giles St Aub...

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June 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM Everybody can reply

Anickto

@anickto.bsky.social

Award to encourage new, young writers and some good bookstore news. anickto.kit.com/8889fe7228 #boolreviews #writingawards

Anickto Newsletter

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October 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM Everybody can reply

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Jennifer McMahon

@jmcm.bsky.social

Frazzled Lit is OPEN for submissions to our short story award. Everything you need to know is in this article!

@frazzledlit.bsky.social

#WritingCommunity #shortstories #competition #writingawards #FrazzledLit

www.frazzledlit.com/p/ready-to-s...

Ready to submit? Here's the link...

Everything you need to know is right here...

www.frazzledlit.com

June 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM Everybody can reply

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Michele Helene

@michverilion.bsky.social

3 days to go before I am in Print's fab writing contests close.
Go on, you know you want to.

#writingcompetitions #writingcomp #writingcontest #writingawards #writingcommunity #writerslife #literaryagent #novel #fictionbooks #writer #author #UKKidlit #UKYA #IAmWriting

I Am In Print @iaminprint.bsky.social · May 15

Celebrating the amazing @losbennett.bsky.social today! Laura discovered K.N Milde, Helen Glynn Jones & @sophiavahdati.bsky.social through our #Agent121 service. See if you can catch Laura's attention by entering the #SciFi/#Fantasy #IAmWritingComp by 22 May 12pm BST: iaminprint.co.uk/competitions...

May 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM Everybody can reply

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Lou Piccolo | Picture book & middle-grade editor & author

@loupiccolo.bsky.social

i am very humbled and very proud that my middle-grade verse novel has been longlisted in the Searchlight Writing Award's for Children's Best Novel Opening competition.
Thank you @WritingAwards for making my 2023 end with a bang!

#appreciation #kidlit #versenovel #middlegrade

Searchlight Writing for Children Awards @writingawards.bsky.social · Nov 28

Announcing the longlists for Searchlight’s Best Novel Opening Competition and Best Picture Book Text 2023. Congratulations to everyone who entered - we loved your stories. Thank you for sharing them with us. 🍾👏
www.searchlightawards.co.uk/picture-book...

www.searchlightawards.co.uk/novel-openin...

November 28, 2023 at 5:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Kayleigh Kitt

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Grants for writers over 30 from Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust - experiencing financial difficulties in the pursuit of their careers. Applications welcomed until 2nd October. See website for details.

#writinggrants #fundsforwriting #writingawards

www.oppenheimdownestrust.org?utm_source=s...

Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust - funding for British artists, sculptors, writers, musicians and dancers: Homepage - Background and Awards

www.oppenheimdownestrust.org

June 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM Everybody can reply

Writing Africa

@writingafrica.bsky.social

Morland Writing Scholarships 2024 winners announced.
#WritingAwards #Fiction #Nonfiction
www.writingafrica.com/morland-writ...

Morland Writing Scholarships 2024 winners announced.

The Morland Writing Scholarships 2024 winners were announced on Friday, November 22, 2024.

www.writingafrica.com

November 25, 2024 at 12:21 AM Everybody can reply

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Eleanor Vincent

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So, friends, what do you think? In this week's Substack, I weigh in on my recent Eric Hoffer Award and my recent article on Jane Friedman's blog.

#substack #writingawards

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Do Writing Awards Matter?

I'll take mine with a shot of dopamine, please

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July 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM Everybody can reply

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wendymanzo.bsky.social

@wendymanzo.bsky.social

I received word on my birthday (nice, hey) that I'd won 1st Place for Fiction in Pace Uni 2025 Writing Awards. It's now been officially released. My adventures in New York were pretty wild and this is nice icing on the cake 🎶 ✍️🥇 🚀
#newyork #paceuniversity #writingawards
#writingcommunity
#booksky

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May 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM Everybody can reply

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SuzyWriter

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I'm proud to be a repeat judge for the WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) STAR Award for excellence in the field of women's fiction. I read three great novels and, that, once the contest is over, I'll review so the rest of you can enjoy them as well. #WFWA #WomensFiction #WritingAwards

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April 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM Everybody can reply

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