All the top writing contests.

The competition is open to writers of any nationality, aged 16 years old and over.

The competition has four categories:
• Poetry (1st prize: £5,000);
• Short story (1st prize: £5,000);
• Flash fiction (1st prize: £1,000);
• Novel (1st prize: £1,500).

Entry fees: from £12 to £26.

You may submit stories and essays on any theme, up to 6,000 words each. For this contest, a story is any short work of fiction, and an essay is any short work of nonfiction.

The entry fee is $25.

The winning story and the winning essay will each receive $3,500.
Ten honorable mentions will receive $500 each.

The competition is organized by the Rattle, an American poetry magazine.

Each poet may submit 15 – 30 pages of poems.

The $30 entry fee is a one-year subscription to Rattle magazine.

The three winners will each receive $5,000 and 500 author copies of their chapbook.

The competition is open to all essayists writing in English.

Entries must be a single non-fiction essay of 2,000 and 5,000 words.

Each entry must be accompanied by an entry fee of AU$30.

The winner will receive AU$5,000. The runner-up will receive AU$3,000. Third place will receive AU$2,000.

The competition is organized by Overland, an Australian literary and cultural magazine.

This is a prize for original pieces of short fiction written in English, up to 3000 words in length.

Entry fee: $12 AUD for subscribers and $20 AUD for non-subscribers.

The winner will receive $5,000 AUD. Two runners-up will each receive $750 AUD.

The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem.

The competition is open to anyone aged 16 or over.

The entry fee is €16 per poem.

• 1st prize: €6,000
• 3 runner-up prizes of €1,000
• 8 prizes of €250 for commended poems

The competition is open to original, unpublished poems in English of 40 lines or fewer.

Entry fee: €7 per poem.

• 1st Prize: €2,000
• 2nd Prize: €500
• 3rd Prize: €250

You may submit one humor poem written in English, up to 250 lines in length.

The competition is free to enter.

• 1st prize: $2,000
• 2nd prize: $500
• 3rd Prize: $250
• 10 honorable mentions, $100 each