This site gathers up a wide experience of living in, remembering and imagining the great city of Manchester.

This is not your usual contest, there does not appear to be a money prize but it is well worth a look.

Grist is a new annual anthology of the best new writing from around the world in English.

Now is your chance to have your short story professionally recorded and broadcast to a worldwide audience on Short Story Radio.

Inspired by a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar called The Debt, Talk About Debt are running a poetry competition to find this century’s ‘Debt Poem’.

On the theme of ‘Work’ for children aged 7-11 years and linking with the ‘Work’ theme of National Poetry Day 2008

This contest is new and offered for the first time.The organizers are looking for a memoir, long short story, a small collection of flash fiction, or other innovative prose for a prose chapbook.
The Prose chapbook, if a collection, should have an original theme binding the pieces together.
Please send manuscripts of 18-28 pages, double-spaced, and a [...]

The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award for a first unpublished collection of poems in English