Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️
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We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. We repost lit subs calls! https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
London Magazine Short Story Prize thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2026 - The London Magazine
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2026 is now open for submissions. We are looking for previously unpublished stories of no more than 4,000 words.
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New Faber Online Poetry Platform--looking for submissions platform.faber.co.uk
PLATFORM — an online space for new poetry hosted by Faber
PLATFORM is a unique online space showcasing new voices in poetry, hosted by Faber and launching in spring 2027. Supported by the T. S. Eliot Foundation.
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All Cambridge Poetry Festival events are now up on the website and book-able. Start your engines! www.cambridgepoetryfestival.org
Cambridge Poetry Festival
Cambridge Poetry Festival - October 10th & 11th 2026 A community-focused celebration of poetry in the beautiful city of Cambridge
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Unpublished Novelists Opp docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Deborah Rogers Award - Call for Submissions PR
PRESS RELEASE embargoed until 22 September 2026 Call for submissions | The Deborah Rogers Award 2027 Submissions for 2027 Deborah Rogers Award open 29 September 2026 Bernardine Evaristo chairs a pa...
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Fusebox Games are looking for a writer to work on Big Brother: The Game! www.linkedin.com/company/fuse...
Fusebox Games | LinkedIn
Fusebox Games | 7,746 followers on LinkedIn. Live the stories you love | At Fusebox Games we make world-leading choice-based narrative mobile games to entertain a global audience. Fusebox came to life in 2016 and has since rapidly become a market leader in the Interactive Narrative mobile gaming space, particularly with it's success of licensed IP titles, such as Love Island: The Game, which frequently tops global charts.
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Writers & Artists Short Story Competition www.writersandartists.co.uk/competitions...
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Cambridge #Poetry Festival is back after a four-decade hiatus. And CWC are right in the thick of it! Check out all the events so far here: www.cambridgepoetryfestival.org
Cambridge Poetry Festival
Cambridge Poetry Festival - October 10th & 11th 2026 A community-focused celebration of poetry in the beautiful city of Cambridge
cambridgepoetryfestival.org
Future Karaoke is back on Friday 9th October as part of the Cambridge #Poetry Festival fringe! Join us for a quickfire evening of new work on the theme of 'Superwomen'. 6.30pm, LAB002. Book your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/future-kar...
Cambridge-based? Have some new material you'd like to share? Come along to our Back to School Open Mic -- the first of the autumn term, with star international poet Sudeep Sen as our special guest reader. Friday 25th September, at Anglia Ruskin University, LAB002, 6pm to 7.30pm.
Curtis Brown Prize for unpublished female novelists www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-...
Discoveries 2027
Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown Group and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development programme for ...
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New Prize for unconventional work in any genre fieldnotes.site/submit/
Submit – fieldnotes
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Sunspot Lit, an international magazine, invites flash, poetry, graphic novels, stories, CNF and art submissions. All genres and art forms accepted. sunspotlit.submittable.com/submit
Sunspot Lit Submission Manager
WRITING A NEW WORLDSunspot Literary Journal welcomes prose from flash fiction and poetry to stories and essays, including scripts and screenplays, up to 49,000 words. Genre categories are accepted alo...
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Flash Fiction Contest docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The inaugural NAWE Flash Fiction Contest 2026 ‘Writing Worlds’
This inaugural flash fiction competition welcomes entries from writers across the globe writing in English, aged 16 years old and over at the time of the closing date. Entries should write on the NAWE...
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The first chapter of ARU graduate Will Hardy's novel will be broadcast on Rob Jelly's show this Saturday at 6pm! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Essex - Upload with Rob Jelly
Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Rob Jelly.
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ARU Writing graduate Will Hardy has written about CWC for the Cambridge Tribune! cambridgetribune.co.uk/local/aru-ca...
ARU Cambridge Writing Centre Connects Research with Community
Discover how ARU's Cambridge Writing Centre is connecting creative writing research with the public through workshops, festivals, partnerships and events.
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www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/mentoring Mentoring for playwrights--1st July closing date
The NHB Mentoring Scheme
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Welcome to The Sareeta Domingo Prize
The Sareeta Domingo Prize is a free-to-enter writing prize created to discover and support unpublished writers from Black and Global Majority backgrounds, founded by bestselling author Dorothy Koomson...
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Paid Opportunity V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize - First Reader We are currently recruiting First Readers to help assess submissions for the 2027 Prize. This is a paid opportunity (£2.50 per story). Deadline 2nd July rsliterature.civiplus.net/ssp/2027-vs-...
2027 V.S. Pritchett Short Story First Reader Application | Royal Society Of Literature
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DIRT PLANTABLE POETRY COMPETITION: JUNE 1 - 14, 2026. Submit a poem on any theme that best showcases your style -- £6 for the first entry, £4 for subsequent entries. www.dialect.org.uk/dirt/dirtcom...
DIRT Competition | Inspire Climate Poetry — Join Now — Dialect
Join the DIRT plantable poetry competition to collaborate on climate-inspired poetry. Submit by June 14, 2026, and support Earth-positive literary projects with Dialect Press.
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and yes, I'll be one of the poets reading a brand new poem...
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Are you a fan of (a) animals and (b) collective nouns? Future Karaoke: The Compaẏnẏs of Beestẏs -- happening on Friday at a new venue, as part of the Weirding Sustainability Festival! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-compay...
