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Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2025
DescriptionLoewe Foundation Craft Prize is an international award for contemporary craft.

All participants must be professional artisans 18 years or older.

The competition is free to enter.

The winner will receive a cash prize of 50,000 €.

Deadline: 30 October 2024

34th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize
DescriptionWriters can submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction up to 8,500 words or any number of poems between 6 to 12 pages.

All entries must be accompanied by a $25 entry fee.

Winners receive publication and a cash prize:
• $5,000 Fiction
• $5,000 Nonfiction
• $5,000 Poetry

Deadline: 1 October 2024

International Silent Book Contest 2025
DescriptionThe competition is open to illustrators of any nationality over the age of 18.

Create and submit a silent book, which is a illustrated book without words, telling a story through images alone.

The entry fee is 60 €.

The winning book project will be published by Carthusia Edizioni. The author will receive a cash prize of 3.000 € as advance on the royalties.

Deadline: 30 January 2025

32nd Photo Contest 'Caminos de Hierro'
DescriptionThe competition is open to anyone.

You may submit single photos or series related to railways.

The competition is free to enter.

• 1st Prize: 4,000 €
• 2nd Prize: 2,000 €
• Instagram Prize: 800 €
• 4 additional prizes of 400 € each

Deadline 31 October 2024

The Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2024/2025
DescriptionTo enter the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, submit an unpublished short story in English, up to 6000 words.

The cost of entry per submission is £11.

The winning author will receive a cash prize of £2,500. Shortlisted authors will each receive £200.

Deadline: 13 October 2024

Tapirulan Illustrators Contest 2024
DescriptionThe competition is open to illustrators from around the world.

This year's theme is Voilà. You may submit only one illustration.

The entry fee is 15 €.

The winner will receive 3,000 €.

Deadline: 11 November 2024

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2024
DescriptionThe competition is open to anyone over the age of 18.

Fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid narratives are considered. Word count: 250 words or fewer for each micro.

Entry fees:
• up to 2 micros: $11,
• up to 4 micros: $16.

The grand prize winner will receive $1,000.

Deadline: 15 November 2024

Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award 2024
DescriptionThe submitted images must narrate a story related to one of these topics: natural disasters, humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, violation of human rights, armed conflicts, vulnerable groups, refugee and / or migrant populations.

The winner will receive a cash prize of 6,000 €.

Entry is free.

Deadline: 4 October 2024

2025 Peter Porter Poetry Prize
DescriptionAll poets writing in English are eligible to enter.

Poets are invited to submit original poems of up to 60 lines.

Each entry must be accompanied by an entry fee of AU$30.

The winner will receive AU$6,000. The other four shortlisted poets will each receive AU$1,000.

Deadline: 7 October 2024

The National Poetry Competition 2024
DescriptionThe competition is open to anyone aged 18 or over. International entries are welcome.

All poems must have a title and must not exceed 40 lines in length. Entries can be on any subject.

The first poem submitted costs £8. Subsequent entries in the same submission cost £5 per poem.

• 1st prize: £5,000
• 2nd prize: £2,000
• 3rd prize: £1,000

Deadline: 31 October 2024