Writing Competitions - Almond Press

10/08/2025

We have listed a new contest on Writing Competitions!
https://writingcompetitions.net/ ❤️🖋

🌟 2026 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 🌟

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 eachDeadline: 1 April 2026

10/08/2025

Deadline Oct 5: What the Wild Carries Prize
"...we want stories or excerpts of instinct, presence, and the creatures that change us. Drop us into those human and creature relationships that make us feel something new or old or leave us twisting to understand. At the heart of your story, we want to see humans and animals interacting in interesting ways."
Genres: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Thriller/Mystery (Horror), Young Adult, and Humor
Guest judge: Shelby Van Pelt
Win $2,000 and publication
Fee: $20 for one unpublished short story or novel excerpt of 1,001–5,000 words
https://www.unchartedmag.com/what-the-wild-carries-prize-judged-by-shelby-van-pelt-2500-awarded/
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10/08/2025

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10/08/2025

😻 Coin-Operated Press invites your submissions all about cats for our latest zine! 😻 The first edition of our Cats Zine was so popular that we are bringing it back for a much-awaited part 2!! 😻 We want to see your pet portraits, kitty collages, panther prints, stories about your local shelters, hissing haiku, toe-bean illustrations, tiger tattoos, recipes for cat treats, feline photography, lion comic-strips, care guides for bringing a kitten home, purrfect poetry, and so much more!! If it's about kitties and will fit on the pages of a zine, we want to see it!! 😻 Deadline: Sunday 31st August 😻 Submissions via https://forms.gle/vVpZYB7Kr4DYZdVVA

10/08/2025

For the milestone tenth issue of Reckoning, our sixth under fascist misrule, we're practicing what we preach. Reckoning X will be edited collectively by our entire editorial staff, and it will be themed, broadly, around communication. What brought us to this? How do those of us who grasp the direnes...

10/08/2025

WHAAAAT???

The deadline seemed so far away and now it’s upon us like a sweaty lover 🥵

Luckily, 2 weeks is still plenty of twin to whip up 1,500 words of super spicy fiction!

Remember, you’ve gotta be in it to win it, and with no promise of a return for this comp, this may be the one and only chance you get in this lifetime.

Check the website for all the details and GET WRITING!

09/08/2025

Sponsored > Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
Deadline: Oct 1. Submit now for publication in Spring 2026 in The Heartland Review. Prizes: $400 first-place gift card, $240 second-place gift card, and $100 third-place gift card. Fee: $10 for 1-3 unpublished poems. No limit on style or length. Clay Matthews will judge: "I love a wide range of poetic forms—from sonnets and sestinas to long lyrical works. Whether short or long, formal or free, I hang on to this value of an authentic connection with the subject/speaker through the page, which necessarily looks different from writer to writer."
https://elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/community/theheartlandreviewpress/poetry-prize.aspx
with Submittable

08/08/2025

📌 New writing competition
★The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 ★
📆Deadline: November 15, 2025 8:55 pm - 8:55 pm The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest is organized by SmokeLong Quarterly , an online literary magazine specializing in flash and micro narratives.

The competition is open to anyone aged 18 or older, from anywhere in the world. Writers may submit micro pieces (fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid narratives), each of 250 words or fewer.

Entries may be in English or another language, as long as an English translation is included. Previously published and unpublished work is accepted.

Prizes:

Grand Prize: $1,000

Second Place: $500

Third Place: $300

Finalists: $100

Prize winners will be published in the December 2025 issue of SmokeLong .

Is this competition legit?YES! - Based on our research this event is legitimate and the organizer is well established. However, as with any event, please remember to do your own research before submitting your work .

FAQ If you are curious how writing competitions work, or it's your first time entering one, we recommend reading our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page first.

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🔗 Find out more: https://dystopianstories.com/events/the-smokelong-grand-micro-contest-2025/

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest is organized by SmokeLong Quarterly, an online literary magazine specializing in flash and micro narratives. The

08/08/2025

📌 New writing competition
★Solstice Nature Prize for Young Writers ★
📆Deadline: October 31, 2025 9:06 pm - 9:06 pm The Solstice Nature Prize for Writing is open until 31st October 2025. It is a nature-themed creative writing prize for 7- to 25-year-olds

The Solstice Prize is a national, annual writing competition for young writers, which invites young people to take a closer look at the natural world, explore their relationship with it, or examine the challenges it faces, and write short stories, poems, and thought-provoking blogs in response.

In 2025, the organizer is looking for entries about any aspect of nature and offered prizes for winners in four age groups: 7-11, 12-14, 15-17 and 18-25 years. With regional prizes available in each age group for young writers who live in the East Midlands.

Prizes

First-place winners in each age category will receive £100 and have their work published in the 2025 Solstice Anthology.

Five Highly Commended runners up per age category will receive goody bags and also have their work published in the online anthology.

There are also regional prizes for the best pieces in each age group for young writers living in the East Midlands.

The competition is open to UK residents (including all pupils at school in the UK).

Is this competition legit?YES! - Based on our research this event is legitimate and the organizer is well established. However, as with any event, please remember to do your own research before submitting your work .

FAQ If you are curious how writing competitions work, or it's your first time entering one, we recommend reading our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page first.

Newsletter Our newsletter delivers a carefully curated roundup of the newest writing contests and submission calls from around the world—straight to your inbox. Join our growing community of writers who stay informed and ahead of deadlines → Subscribe on Substack (free).

🔗 Find out more: https://dystopianstories.com/events/solstice-nature-prize-for-young-writers/

The Solstice Nature Prize for Writing is open until 31st October 2025. It is a nature-themed creative writing prize for

08/08/2025

📌 New writing competition
★Ironclad Creative Short Story Comp: Switch ★
📆Deadline: October 31, 2025 11:00 am - 11:59 pm The Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition is for both published and unpublished writers.

The organizer is looking for short stories that respond in any way to the prompt: SWITCH . They seek writers who have exciting voices, in any genre of prose.

Prizes:

First Place writer will be offered a prize of £100 and publication

Second Place writer will be offered a prize of £50 and publication

Third Placed writer will be offered prizes of £25 and publication

The shortlisted writers will be offered publication too.

Prize winning and shortlisted writers will be published in an anthology due in December.

Is this competition legit?YES! - Based on our research this event is legitimate and the organizer is well established. However, as with any event, please remember to do your own research before submitting your work .

FAQ If you are curious how writing competitions work, or it's your first time entering one, we recommend reading our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page first.

Newsletter Our newsletter delivers a carefully curated roundup of the newest writing contests and submission calls from around the world—straight to your inbox. Join our growing community of writers who stay informed and ahead of deadlines → Subscribe on Substack (free).

🔗 Find out more: https://dystopianstories.com/events/ironclad-creative-short-story-comp-switch/

The Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition is for both published and unpublished writers. The organizer is looking for short stories that

06/08/2025

05/08/2025

We'll be launching our first pamphlet and collection competition this autumn in memory of the late great John Foggin, who won a few similar competitions himself. Watch out for further details in the next few weeks.