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2023 Wells Festival of Literature's Competitions
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There are four competitions:
• Open Poetry Competition (£6 per entry; prizes: £1000, £500, £250);
• Short Story Competition (£6 per entry; prizes: £750, £300, £200);
• Book for Children Competition (£6 per entry; prizes: £750, £300, £200);
• Young Poets Competition (£3 per entry; prizes: £150, £75, £50).
2023 World Biennial of Student Poster
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The competition is open to all students of art colleges where the discipline of poster art is a part of the curriculum.

Each participant may submit a maximum of three posters on the theme “Ecologycal Country”.

The competition is free to enter.

• 1st prize: 1,000 €
• 2nd prize: 600 €
• 3rd prize: 300 €
2024 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
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The BigPicture Photo Competition is is open to all photographers worldwide. It is organized by the California Academy of Sciences.

Entry fees: $25 for up to 10 single image submissions in any category.

Prizes:
• Grand Prize: $5,000
• First Place for each category (7 total): $1,000

Deadline: 1 March 2024

2024 Calibre Essay Prize
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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.

Deadline: 22 January 2024

2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
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The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is an annual award for unpublished short fiction.

Entrants must be citizens of a Commonwealth country.

There will be five winners, one from each region (Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, Caribbean, Pacific). The overall winner will receive ÂŁ5,000 and the remaining four regional winners ÂŁ2,500.

The competition is free to enter.

Deadline: 1 November 2023

2024 Fumetto International Comic Competition
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The competition is open to anyone.

This year's theme is „Fleisch“, meaning flesh or meat. You may submit only one comic (story in picture form, 4 pages maximum).

The competition is free to enter.

Deadline: 1 December 2023

2024 HG Wells Short Story Competition
DescriptionThe competition is open to anyone.

This year’s theme is ''The Fool''. Your story can be set anywhere, feature any characters, and be written in any style.

There are two categories:
• Authors 21 years of age and under with a prize of £1,000. Entry is free.
• Authors aged 22 years and above with a prize of £500 (entry £10 or £5 with student id).

Deadline: 8 July 2024

2024 International Essay Contest for Young People
DescriptionThis annual essay contest is organized by the Goi Peace Foundation based in Japan.

Essays may be submitted by anyone up to 25 years old.

Essays are accepted in English, French or Japanese.

The competition is free to enter.

1st prize winners will receive a cash prize of 100,000 Yen.

Deadline: 15 June 2024

2024 International Wildbird Photo Competition
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This competition is open to everyone, both amateurs and professional photographers, regardless of nationality.

Entry fee:
• photographers over 18 years: €2 per photo
• young photographers aged 15 to 17: free

Prizes:
• Grand Prix: €1,500
• 1st prize in each category: €800
• 1st prize in the category «Young Photographers»: 500 €

Deadline: 4 December 2023

2024 Leica Women Foto Project Award
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The competition is open to residents of the United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, and Canada who are at least 21 years of age.

Entrans may submit a series of 10 images. The series must tell a single story through a woman’s perspective.

One winner in each region will receive:
•  $10,000 USD
• Leica SL2-S camera and Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-70 f/2.8 ASPH lens.

Deadline: 7 November 2023