New Writers UK

02/07/2025

A brilliant lit mag with fantastic writing and art; check it out...

30/06/2025

Any last-minute writers out there, get involved...

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30/06/2025

Congratulations to the winners of our recent 100-Word Writing Competition. You can read the winning entries here: https://newwriters.org.uk/competitions/winners/new-writers-100-word-competition-2025-results/

We received more than 600 entries and the quality was unbelievably good. 10% of the proceeds of the competition has been split between two fantastic UK-registered charities: First Story and Funzi and Bodo Trust - they both do brilliant work and help change people's lives (and the world) for the better!

Thank you to everyone who entered, and congratulations to all who made the shortlist and longlist.

If there are any poets out there, check out our current competition, the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025: deadline 17th July 2025, top prize £1,200: https://newwriters.org.uk/poetry-competition/

29/05/2025

Raw Lit - Issue 7
Optional Prompt: Fragility
Submission Call - 1 June 2025
Guest Editor: François Bereaud

Art & Hybrids Guidelines
Find out more: https://rawlit.weebly.com/submissions.html

29/05/2025

The New Writers Poetry Competition 2025 is open to entries!

Full details: https://newwriters.org.uk/poetry-competition/

Our head judge is the amazing Katrina Moinet - https://katrinamoinet.com/ - who was recently shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award.

We're also donating 10% of the competition proceeds to charity, split between First Story and Funzi and Bodo Trust, both of whom do fantastic and essential work.

Comp details:
- Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on Thursday 17th July 2025
- Entry Fee: £10 per entry (£18 for two entries or £26 for three entries, when submitted together)
- Prizes: 1st: £1,200; 2nd: £300; 3rd: £150; 4th to 6th: £50 each
- Publication: The six winning entries will be published on the NewWriters.org.uk website and in the next New Writers Anthology
- Head Judge: Katrina Moinet (Prize-winning writer of poetry & prose)
- Word Limit: 42 lines (excluding title and line spaces)
- Charity: 10% of all proceeds will be donated to charity (split between First Story & the Funzi & Bodo Trust)

15/05/2025

Check it out...

Poetry plus classic Indiepop. Music for grown-ups with humour and pathos. Radical Twee meets Poetry Please. Brian Bilston / Catenary Wires

31/03/2025

We're delighted to announce the release of the inaugural New Writers Anthology: https://newwriters.org.uk/anthology-issue-1/

It features a fantastic selection of prize-winning and shortlisted poems, stories and book reviews from the many writing competitions we organised between 2022 and 2024.

We hope you enjoy it!

04/03/2025

The New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2025 is open for entries:

Prizes: 1st: £500; 2nd: £200; 3rd: £100, 4th-10th: £50

Charity: 10% of proceeds will be split between two brilliant charities: First Story and Funzi and Bodo Trust

Deadline: 30 April 2025

Details: https://newwriters.org.uk/100-word-competition/

10/12/2024

Flash fiction writers: fancy the chance to win £1,100 for a 300-word story?

Check out our Flash Fiction Competition:
https://newwriters.org.uk/flash-fiction-competition/

£1 from each entry will be donated to the brilliant creative writing charity First Story.

The Head Judge for the competition is the fantastic author, columnist, playwright & illustrator Shreya Sen Handley.

10/12/2024

Check out details of some of the excellent work First Story have been doing during 2023/24!

We're very happy to support this brilliant charity - £1 from every entry of our Flash Fiction Competition will be donated to First Story: https://newwriters.org.uk/flash-fiction-competition/

Keep up the great work!