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The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2024
DescriptionThe competition is open to anyone over the age of 18.

Flash fictions must be in English. Your entry must be 1000 words or fewer, excluding the title.

Entry fees: from $16 to $32.

The grand prize winner will receive $2,500.

Deadline: 30 April 2024

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023
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The competition is open to anyone over the age of 18.

Fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid narratives are considered. Word count: 400 words or fewer for each micro.

Entry fees:
• up to 2 micros: $13,
• up to 4 micros: $19.

The grand prize winner will receive $1,500.

Deadline: 10 November 2023
The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition 2023
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The competition is for original, unpublished and unbroadcast short stories in the English language of 3,000 words or fewer. The story can be on any subject, in any style.

Entry fee: 19 € per story.

Prizes:
• 1st prize: 2,000 €
• 2nd prize: 500 €
• Four Runners-Up: 250 €
The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2024
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The competition is open to anyone over the age of 18.

''Poems are invited that deal with any aspect of nature and place – these terms will be given a wide interpretation by the judge Zaffar Kunial.''

Entry fees:
ÂŁ7 for your first poem
ÂŁ4 for each subsequent poem

• 1st prize: £1000
• 2nd prize: £500
• 3rd prize: £250

Deadline: 1 April 2024

The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing 2024
DescriptionAuthors must be first-generation immigrants. ''First-generation'' can refer either to people born in another country who relocated, or to residents of a country whose parents were born elsewhere.

This year the competition is open to fiction submissions.

The entry fee is US$20.

The winner receives $10,000 and publication by Restless Books.

Deadline: 31 May 2024

The Plough Prize 2024
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The Plough Poetry Prize is an international competition for a poems in English up to 40 lines on any subject.

The entry fee is ÂŁ5 per poem.

• 1st prize £1,000
• 2nd prize £500
• 3rd prize £250

Deadline: 31 March 2024

The Nature Conservancy’s 2023 Photo Contest
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Enter your wildlife, landscape and other nature photos.

The competition is open to all professional and amateur photographers who have reached the age of majority.

The Grand Prize winner will receive $5,000 USD camera kit or camera kit gift card.

The competition is free to enter.

Deadline 29 September 2023

The National Poetry Competition 2023
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The 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 ÂŁ7. Subsequent entries in the same submission cost ÂŁ5 per poem.

• 1st prize: £5,000
• 2nd prize: £2,000
• 3rd prize: £1,000
The Moth Short Story Prize 2024
DescriptionThe Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone over the age of 16.

You can enter as many stories as you like.

The entry fee is 15 € per story.

• 1st prize: 3,000 €
• 2nd prize: a week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France
• 3rd prize: 1,000 €

Deadline: 30 June 2024

The Moth Short Story Prize 2023
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The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone over the age of 16.

You can enter as many stories as you like.

The entry fee is €15 per story.

• 1st prize: €3,000
• 2nd prize: a week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in Francel
• 3rd prize: €1,000