Competitions, courses and more!
Opportunities
We’re pleased to share a list of opportunities from across the South West.
Quay Words seeks a freelance Writer/Practitioner for activities with young writers in Spring 2025
Dec 2024Applications for Word Space 2025-26 are now open
Never Too Late Award for writers aged 60+
BBC Upload
Oxford/42 New Writing Prize
Word Space 2025-26 open briefings
Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour 2025
Screenwriting with Purpose – Opportunities and Insights
TLC Free Reads are back
The Paul McVeigh Residency
Disabled Poets Prize 2025
Women’s Prize Discoveries 2024
Endelienta Arts is looking for a new Chair
Spark Young Writers online sessions
Bristol City Poet callout
Callout for Read Easy volunteers in Exeter
Melbourne City of Literature Virtual Writer in Residence
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award
Pink Plates and Shipwrecks
The Writers’ Block’s Young Writers Mentoring Programme
Queer Writing Masterclasses for Bristol-based LGBTQI+ writers
Could you be the next Plymouth Young City Laureate?
National Poetry Competition 2024
Plymouth Poetry Festival Advice Surgeries
Foyle Young Poets of the Year
Winchester Poetry Prize 2024
The Health & Resilience Project
The Writers’ Block new Writers’ Room
Wasafiri Craft Podcasts
Out on the Page
Seed bed
