New Writers UK

04/10/2025

Please share this with your friends and especially any who are interested in writing and might lie to have a go at this competition. The Funzi and Bodo Trust has just received a fantastic donation from this New Writers website .
If you are someone who loves to write you can also take part in their competition to win a wonderful prize .The people behind this website have supported The Funzi and Bodo Trust for many years and love the way we help people in the villages become self supporting . So thank you to them and why not try your hand at winning a new writers prize ? You can see the website details below .

03/10/2025

Check out the New Writers Historical (Pre-1960) Flash Fiction Competition 2025: https://newwriters.org.uk/historical-flash-competition/

Deadline: 5th November 2025
Entry Fee: £8 per entry
Main Prizes: 1st: £500; 2nd: £300; 3rd: £200
Additional Prize: The best story set in one of these historic properties will win a year’s Historic Houses membership for one or two adults (living at the same address)
Theme: Entries must be set before 1960 (Historic Houses setting optional)
Word Limit: 300 words (excluding title)
Charity: 10% of all proceeds will be donated to charity (split between First Story & the Funzi and Bodo Trust)

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...

🏍️ TO HULL AND BACK CLOSES TODAY 🏍️
The countdown has almost completed counting down ⏳ with help from the awesome Zac ❤️ The 9th To Hull And Back humorous closes on 30th June 2025 ✍️ LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO GO 👀 Don't miss out on your chance to make people laugh 😂 win £1,000 AND a trip to 🏍️ https://www.christopherfielden.com/to-hull-and-back-humorous-short-story-competition/

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