Want to enter some unique creative writing competitions?
If you enjoy writing short stories, articles or poetry, why not take your creative writing pursuits one stage further by entering some of the best creative writing competitions around? Become inspired by our collection of writing competitions for 2018 and you could be a lucky winner. There really is something for everyone. From poetry competitions to fictional creative writing competitions and, of course, our revered writing challenges, we have them all.
If you love entering writing competitions or just fancy letting your imagination run free, try our Write, Learn and Publish membership. You can enter any of our competitions for free for the duration of your membership and, there are members-only writing competitions too.
Only want to dabble with entering creative writing competitions?
Choose your favourites and read the rules and make sure you send your submissions by the closing date. It may help you to bookmark the page by saving it your browser favourites. We try to review, judge and award our competitions in a timely manner but sometimes, we are unable to publish the results within the anticipated dates. It depends on the number of submissions, the word count and difficulties in deciding on a winner. Entry implies acceptance of our rules.
Creative writing competitions help you to write with focus.
January 2018
First Line Creative Writing Competition CLOSED Click HERE for the winning submission
300 Word Flash Fiction Competition CLOSED Read the winning submission HERE
100 Words Writing Competition CLOSED Click HERE for the winning submission
Now or Never Writing Competition CLOSED
February 2018
Island Retreat Creative Writing Competition CLOSED
The Girl in the Painting Writing Competition
March 2018
Memories Fiction Writing Competition
The Inheritance Writing Competition