As we’re approaching our fifth anniversary I’m pleased to announce a new short story competition to showcase the best of Asian writing. We’re looking for short stories of up to 3,000 words in length on any theme but which include the word five. Winning entries will be presented in a published collection. £15 per entry, max three. All submitted entries must be new and original fiction.
By submitting your entry to us you agree to our terms and conditions and the right for us to publish your entry in our collection. Short …

Charles Pick  South Asian Fellowship –  Award £10,000
The Charles Pick Fellowship is a six-month residential creative writing fellowship with an award of £10,000. The fellowship will begin October 1st 2012.
The Charles Pick South Asian Fellowship seeks to encourage the spirit of writing by giving support to the work of a new and, as yet, unpublished writer of fictional or non-fictional prose based in South Asia. The writer should be from South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Burma/Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan), but does not …

The SI Leeds Literary Prize is a new prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women resident in the UK aged 18 years and over.
The prize aims to act as a loudspeaker for Black and Asian women’s voices, enabling fresh and original literary voices from a group disproportionately under-represented in mainstream literary culture to reach new audiences.
The inaugural prize will be awarded in October 2012, and will consist of:

£2,000 to the winner
£750 to the runner-up
£250 as a third prize

In addition to the cash awards Peepal Tree Press will offer …

Commonwealth Foundation is inviting entries for the new Commonwealth Short Story Prize.  The prizes are part of a new initiative, Commonwealth Writers, an online hub to inspire, inform and create a community of writers from all over the world.
Chair of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Bernardine Evaristo said:
This wonderful prize will turn the spotlight on the increasingly popular short story form and aims to support and encourage short story writers worldwide.
As one of the Commonwealth Foundation’s culture programmes, Commonwealth Writers works in partnership with international literary organisations, the wider cultural industries and civil …

This competition deadline has now closed. For our 2012 competition please visit our new competition page here.
 
The Asian Writer New Writing Competition is for: poems of up to 40 lines, max of three; fiction of up to 1200 words, max of three entries per person.
It is particularly aimed at encouraging British Asian writers.
All short listed entries will be published on our website, and the winning entries published under our featured section. Entry £5 each, or three for £10.  Open to all.
Please  put your name, address and title of your submission …

Now in its third year, Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2011 is inviting entries from unpublished writers.  The competition is open to anyone worldwide who has not published a complete book. Creative submissions can be made in one of three categories: Poetry, Fiction or Life Writing.

This year’s judges include Daljit Nagra, Brian Chikwava, Jackie Kay and founding editor of Wasafiri, Susheila Nasta
Entry fee: £6 for one category, £10 for two, and £15 for three

Closing date: 29 July 2011

For full details and an application form please click here.

Writers of Pakistani origin are invited to submit to Life’s Too Short Story Prize.

Submissions must be e-mailed to lifestooshortentry@gmail.com
Kindly paste the text into the body of the e-mail. Attachments shall not be considered.
Each entry must include the name, address, telephone number(s) and the e-mail address of the writer
The stories may have any theme or subject, but should not exceed 5,000 words
The stories must be original and should not have been previously published anywhere in part or full.
All entries must be in English
Only one entry per person
Entries will not be returned …

GRASSROUTES: Contemporary Leicestershire Writing is an Arts Council funded project based at the School of English in the University of Leicester.

GRASSROUTES promotes public knowledge of Leicestershire’s diverse literary cultures. It fosters local, national and international appreciation of quality transcultural writing in the county.

We are now inviting applications from writers living in Leicestershire for a £1,000 creative writing commission, which will take the form of a short story, long poem, poem sequence or performance piece that is also suited to the page. The work should be a maximum …

Unpublished and self published novels are being invited to enter the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel.
The competition will award two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for young adult fiction. Each winner will receive a publishing contract with Penguin, which includes a $15,000 advance.
Submissions close February 6, 2011.
Full details here.

The 2011 Commonwealth Short Story Competition will open for entry via the online entry form from 15 January to 1 March 2011. Entries should be original, unpublished, in English and no more than 600 words in length. Entries can be on any subject, but there will be a special award for entries relating to the 2011 Commonwealth theme, ‘Women as Agents of Change’ and a special award for a short story for children.
Entry is open to all Commonwealth citizens aged 19 and over to send in original, unpublished short stories …