The FILSCAP Foundation, Inc. has announced the start of its songwriting competition. The contest aims to provide incentives to established composers, to discover new talents and provide the winning works national and international showcase through radio/TV, print and other media exposure.

FILSCAP trustee Vehnee Saturno, one of the country’s most prolific composers, sees this as [...]

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Hallmark giving one lucky couple a free luxury romantic cottage break courtesy of Cottages4You.

All you need to do to be able to win this fantastic prize is write your own Valentine’s verse or limerick in 140 characters or less. Your verse can be soppy, funny or just plain old romantic, [...]

To help writers get a step up when entering any writing contest, the long-established Writers-Editors Network has posted 10 Tips for Winning Writing Contests. Among those tips are:

Begin with a bang. Editors routinely say they read the first paragraph of a piece, and if they don’t care about what happens next, they stop there, [...]

Wrekin Writers have launched their 10th Doris Gooderson Short Story Competition, inviting writers to submit short stories of 1200 words or less.

There is a small charge of £3 per entry or £5 for two entries. You can enter as many times as you like. The competition is open to everyone and the stories can [...]

The Irish are great story tellers and ‘Albedo One, ‘Ireland’s leading magazine of science fiction, fantasy and horror, is seeking to set Irish and UK minds on fire with imaginative submissions for the Aeon Award for short fiction. The contest is now in its 4th year and becoming more popular each year. The goal of [...]

If you are a published author then The Sunday Times is where you should be looking. They have just launched a prestigious new short story contest in collaboration with EFG Private Bank.

Only entries from writers who have been published in the UK or Ireland are been accepted. To make sure there is no cheating [...]

Arthritis Care is delighted to announce the winner of its creative writing competition 2009 – Lorraine Newark for her poem Sssh

The Arthritis Care creative writing competition is a yearly event, which aims to give people with arthritis an outlet to explore their condition through writing. In 2009, we asked people to write about their [...]

The Academi runs events, competitions (including the Cardiff International Poetry Competition), conferences, international exchanges, events for schools, lectures and festivals. Academi is also responsible for the National Poet of Wales project and the Encyclopaedia of Wales.
The Academi works with the support of the Arts Council of Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government. Academi is [...]