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Funding and
competitions by subject
 If
you're looking for a way
to make money out of your
writing, have a browse of our
list of funding bodies and
competitions for writers.
Search by name
or by subject.
Upcoming competitions
The Art of the Garden - The Verb
Competition 2004
BBC Radio 3's regular writing strand The Verb
wants you to write a short story, of no more than 1,500
words, based on a photograph or painting of a garden.
The winning story will be read out on air. Closing date
10th September 2004.
For further details and examples by Rose Tremain, Adam
Thorpe and Jake Arnott go to The
Verb's web pages.
The Bridport Prize
Established for 30 years, the Bridport Prize
is one of the top open writing competitions in the country
and has been the first step in the careers of established
poets and novelists such as Helen Dunmore.
Entries are welcome either online or by post with an
entry fee of £6. There are many prizes to be won,
including £3000 for 1st prize.
Stories should be 5000 words maximum, and poems should
be no more than 42 lines. The competition closes 30th
June 2004.
For more information please see www.bridportprize.org.uk
The Cherrybite
Open Poetry Competition
First prize of £100 for a poem of up to 40 lines.
The style and theme are up to you. Closing date 30th
June 2004.
Visit http://www.cherrybite.co.uk/opc.html
for details.
2004 Jo Cowell
Short Story competition
Ormskirk Writers’ and Literary Club are offering
prizes totalling £400 for their 2004 Jo Cowell
Short Story competition. Stories should be between 1,000
and 2,000 words on a theme of your choice. Entry fee
of £4 for the first entry and £3 after that.
The competition will be judged by literary agent, Merric
Davidson. Send an sae for entry form and details to:
The Competition Co-ordinator, OWLS, Stone Cross, 2 Cobbs
Brow, Newburgh, Wigan, WN8 7ND. Closing date 30th June
2004.
Momaya Short
Story Competition
Momaya Press's Short Story Competition is open to writers
of any nationality writing in English, and also offers
the opportunity for winners to be published in the Momaya
Annual Review 2004. Closing date 1st July 2004.
Visit www.momayapress.com
Mere Literary
Festival Short Story Competition
2500 words, 1st prize £300. Closing date 11th
July 2004.
Visit www.merewilts.org.uk
Legend Writing
Awards - Short Story Competition
This competition is for short stories up to 2000 words
and particularly aims to encourage new writers. Cash
prizes: 1st £500, 2nd £250, 3rd £100
Plus three runners-up prizes of £50. Closing date
31st August 2004.
Visit www.legendwritingaward.com
The New Writer
Prose and Poetry Prizes
Fact, fiction and poetry competition with cash prizes.
Closing date 31st October 2004. Visit www.thenewwriter.com
Funding by subject
Crime & romance;
Poetry; Science Fiction;
Age-related; Short
stories; Screenwriting; Funding
Bodies; General writing competitions
Essay Writing Contest
www.breakawaybooks.com
On the subject of 'Bicycle Love' stories of passion,
devotion, or obsession.
The Crime Writers Association
www.thecwa.co.uk
Unpublished novelists would do well to submit for the
Creasey Dagger Award. Information and advice freely
available.
The Romantic Novelists' Association
www.rna-uk.org/parkeraward.html
Runs the £10,000 Parker Romantic Novel of the
year award.
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No Love Lost Annual International
Poetry Contest
writers@hiddenbrookpress.com
Submit 5 previously unpublished poems. Closing date
4th January 2003
The New Writer
www.thenewwriter.com
For unpublished poetry of up to 40 lines, also collections
of 6-10 poems
The Petra Kennedy Poetry Competition
www.petrapoetrycompetition.co.uk
A 1st prize of £1,000 makes it worth sharpening
your pencil and rhyming some rhymes.
The Society of Authors
www.writers.org.uk/society
The Eric Gregory Award for promising poets under the
age of 30.
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The British Science Fiction Association
www.appomattox.demon.co.uk/acca
Offers the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction.
The Wellcome Trust Book Prize
www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/miscmp.html
£25,000 for a spooky science writer
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The K.Blundell Trust
www.societyofauthors.co.uk/funding
Grants for authors under the age of 40. Work must 'contribute
to the greater understanding of existing social and
economic organisation'. For fiction and non-fiction
writers.
The McKitterick Prize
www.societyofauthors.co.uk/
£4,000 for the best first-published novel by someone
over a certain age.
The Sagittarius Prize
www.societyofauthors.co.uk/
£2,000 for the best novel by an author over the
age of 60.
The Society of Authors
www.societyofauthors.co.uk/
For a range of age categories including poets under
30 and first time novelists over 60.
The Sunday Times Young Writer
of the Year Award for 2003
www.societyofauthors.co.uk/
Offers £5,000 for a full length published work
of fiction, non fiction or poetry by an author under
the age of 35.
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Donard Publishing Short Story
Competition
www.donardpublishing.co.uk/writers.html
A range of prizes from £250 to £1,500.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
1st prize £1,000. No web address as yet so contact
by post: Short story competition, English and Media
Centre, 18 Compton Terrace, London, N1 2UN
Fish Short Story Competition
www.fishpublishing.com
£1,000 first prize
Shrewsbury Literary Competition
29 Oswell Road, Shrewsbury SY2 5Y1
Small prizes for short stories of upto 2,000 words.
Also travel articles of up to 750 words
The Royal Society of Literature
www.rslit.org/prizes
A prize of £1,000 for a previously unpublished
short story.
Writing competitions
www.freelancewriting.com
Various writing competitions, mainly American
Writing competitions
www.writingcontests.net
Various writing competitions
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Screen Daily.com
www.screendaily.com
Budding screenwriters, now's your chance! £10,000
for the best screenplay.
BBC Writers Room
www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom
Contains competitions organised by the BBC
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Career Development Loans
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/
Loans available for vocational courses, including some
postgraduate courses.
Educational Grants Advisory Service
Family Welfare Association, 501-505 Kingsland Road,
Dalston, London E8 4AU
Can put students in touch with sources of charitable
help.
Higher Education Funding Council
www.niss.ac.uk/admin/support-he.html
Displays results of recent funding audits at UK universities
Literary Awards
www.literature-awards.com
General information on awards
Natural Environment Research
Council
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research-councils/
Provides links to all UK research councils.
Prospects
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/
Links to all UK universities and funding sources.
Quality Assurance Agency
www.qaa.ac.uk
Displays results of recent quality assessments at UK
universities.
The Arts Council
www.artscouncil.ie
Grants aid to events, organisations, awards and schemes
that help artists.
The British Academy
http://www.britac3.britac.ac.uk/
The British Academy is the chief source of funding for
arts post graduate courses.
The Directory of Grant Making
Trusts
http://www.acf.org.uk/pubs/gmakeruk.PDF
The Educational Grants Directory
http://www.knowuk.co.uk/html/about_edu.htm
The Esmee Fairbair Foundation
www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
The foundation's arts and heritage programme gives priority
to arts provisions in under-served geographical areas.
The Grants Register
http://www.macmillan-reference.co.uk/Academic/Grants.htm
The Minack Chronicles Trust
http://www.minackchroniclestrust.org.uk/
Bursary fund left by David Tangye.
The Student Awards Agency for
Scotland
Gyleview House, Redheughs Rigg, Edinburgh, EH12 9HH
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Jacqui
Bennett Writers' Bureau
www.jbwb.co.uk
Free critique, hall of fame and competitions
Park
Publications
www.parkpublications.co.uk
Publishing and competitions
The
Poetry Service
www.poetrybusiness.co.uk
Independent poetry publisher - annual competition
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