aesthetica creative writing award 2021 short fiction

• Choosing a service
• News Review 2024
• News Review 2023
• News Review 2022
• News Review 2021
• News Review 2020
• News Review 2019
• News Review 2018
• News Review 2017
• News Review 2016
• News Review 2015
• News Review 2014
• News Review 2013
• News Review 2012
• News Review 2011
• News Review 2010
• News Review 2009
• News Review 2008
• News Review 2007
• News Review 2006
• News Review 2005
• What's New 2024
• What's New 2023
• What's New 2022
• What's New 2021
• What's New 2020
• What's New 2019
• What’s new 2018
• What’s new 2017
• What’s new 2016
• What’s new 2015
• What’s new 2014
• What’s new 2013
• What’s new 2012
• What’s new 2011
• What’s new 2010
• What’s new 2009
• What’s new 2008
• What’s new 2007
• What’s new 2006
• What’s new 2005
• What’s new 2004
• What’s new 2003
• Comment 2024
• Comment 2023
• Comment 2022
• Comment 2021
• Comment 2020
• Comment 2019
• Comment 2018
• Comment 2017
• Comment 2016
• Comment 2015
• Comment 2014
• Comment 2013
• Comment 2012
• Comment 2011
• Comment 2010
• Comment 2009
• Comment 2008
• Comment 2007
• Comment 2006
• Comment 2005
• Writers' Quotes
• Rotten Rejections
• Diagram Prize
• What a publisher wants from submissions
• Judging a book by its covering letter
• The writer's x-factor
• The changing face of publishing
• Our Services for Writers
• Copy Editing
• Editor's Report Plus
• Editor's report
• Children's Editorial Services
• English Language editing service
• The Cutting Edit
• Developmental editing
• Writer's Edit service
• Submission critique
• Manuscript polishing service
• Reader's report
• Synopsis-writing
• Blurb-writing
• Poetry Critique
• Poetry Collection Editing
• Scriptwriting service
• Proof-reading
• Contract vetting
• PhD editing
• Manuscript typing
• Is Self-publishing for you?
• Just thinking about it?
• How much will it cost?
• Getting Ready
• Design services
• Preparation
• Publication
• Print and supply
• Marketing your book
• The marketplace
• Advice for writers
• Making submissions
• Finding an agent
• Your submission package
• Getting ms copy edited
• Preparing a manuscript
• Publishing your poetry
• Writing for the web
• Top 10 tips
• International agents
• Children's agents
• Writers' organisations
• Agents' associations
• Publishers' & Booksellers' Organisations
• Writers’ online services
• Writers’ web resources
• Poetry sites
• Picture Libraries
• Writers’ Software
• Writers’ magazines and sites
• Bursaries & Scholarships
• Inspiration (Health)
• Inspiration (Humour)
• Magazines & Writing Sites
• Play Publishers
• Publishers References
• UK Arts Organisations
• Opportunities 2024
• Opportunities 2023
• Opportunities 2022
• Opportunities 2021
• Opportunities 2020
• Opportunities 2019
• Opportunities 2018
• Opportunities 2017
• Opportunities 2016
• Opportunities 2015
• Opportunities 2014
• Opportunities 2013
• Opportunities 2012
• Opportunities 2011
• Opportunities 2010
• Opportunities 2009
• Opportunities 2008
• Opportunities 2007
• Opportunities 2006
• Opportunities 2005
• Printing and publishing glossary
• Glossary of technical terms
• Glossary of acronyms
• WritersServices glossary
• How Not to Write a Novel
• Inspired writing
• Novel writing
• ABC Checklist
• Writing Biography & Autobiography
• Writing for Children
• Brian McGilloway
• Colin Cotterill
• Jeremy Worman
• Hilary Mantel
• Rosie Alison
• Darren Shan
• Christopher Paolini
• Gillian Flynn
• Stephen Leather
• Tina Seskis
• Phyllis McDuff
• Eliza Graham
• Wendy Walker
• Dominae Primus
• Natasha Mostert
• Talking to Publishers | Series
• Advances & Royalties
• Publishers and Agents
• Subsidiary Rights
• English Language Publishing World
• Frankfurt Book Fair
• Sales Department
• Publishing & pricing
• Distribution
• Book Clubs & direct mail
• Direct selling
• Print on Demand
• Children's publishing
• Copy editing
• Vanity Publishing
• Creative Commons
• Writer/Publisher
• 1 - What is Self-publishing?
• 2 - Choose Your Self-publishing Route
• 3 - Ebooks: How to Sell on Amazon
• 4 - Ebooks: Formatting for Kindle
• 5 - Ebooks: Distributing to Other Eretailers
• 6 - Cover Design Know-how
• 7 - Print On Demand for Indies
• 8 - Ebooks - Pricing Strategies for Indie Authors
• 9 - Marketing and Promotion for Indie Authors: Online
• 10 - Traditional marketing techniques
• 1 - Which age group should I write for?
• 2 - Before You Write: What is My Story Going to be?
• 3 - Starting to write
• 4 - Submitting Your Work to Agents and Editors
• What Do Publishers Want?
• Write about What You Know
• Literary Agents
• Submissions
• Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
• Plotting the Novel
• The First and Last Pages
• Will I be Famous? Will I be Rich?
• The Qualities that Make a Writer
• Articles, Non  Fiction and the Market
• Children's Books
• Useful Techniques for the Novelist
• PLR & Miscellaneous Matters
• Doing further drafts
• Genre writing
• Points of view
• Manuscript presentation
• It's my story
• Writing crime fiction
• Writing SF & fantasy
• Writing romance
• Writing non-fiction
• Writing historical fiction
• Writing memoir
• Improving your writing
• Learn on the job
• New technology & the Internet
• Self-publishing - is it for you?
• Promoting your writing (& yourself)
• Other kinds of writing
• Keep up to date
• Submission to publishers & agents
• Repetitive Strain Injury
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Your Working Environment
• The computer chair
• Looking after your eyes
• Your display
• Input devices
• General Guides
• Writing Guides
• Fiction Writing
• Genre Fiction Writing
• Non-Fiction Writing
• Plays and Script-writing
• Other Types of Writing
• Educational and Academic Writing
• ‘Creative’ Writing
• Personal Accounts
• Selling your work
• The Business of Publishing
• Internet and the Writer
• Writers' Software
• Writers Reference
• Manuscript Polishing
• Writer's Edit Service
• Payment & ordering
• 1: What genre is my book?
• 2: the submission letter
• 3: writing a synopsis
• 4: Why do I need you?
• 5: Non-fiction submissions
• 6: Writing non-fiction
• 7: Researching for a book
• 8: How I assess a manuscript
• 9: Why do I need a report?
• 10: Writing your blurb or cover copy
• 11: English language editing
• 12: The limitations of editing software
• 1: character names in fantasy novels
• 2: the basics of writing fantasy fiction
• 3: geography and physical location
• 4: technology
• 7: It's a kind of magic
• 1: Accents and dialects
• 2: Dialogue tags
• 3: Bells and whistles? The use of bold, italics and capital letters in prose fiction
• 4: Spoilt for choice: formats and fonts
• 5: The trouble with ‘as’
• 6: What's all the fuss over hyphens?
• 7: How to make your editor happy: Close encounters of the word kind

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2021

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that is a hotbed for new talent in Poetry and Short Fiction. Now in its 15th year, the Prize supports both emerging and established writers. By entering, writers can showcase their work to key industry figures and organisations including The Poetry Society Lively and well-presented UK site supporting poetry with 4,000 members internationally and some thoughtful content. www.poetrysociety.org.uk , Granta, VINTAGE and more.

The Short Fiction and Poetry winners have gone to achieve widespread acclaim, including nominations for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. The prize attracts thousands of entries each year from across the world and is an outstanding resource to discover the best new voices in creative writing.

Winners are selected for both categories and awarded with an increase in prize money to £2,500. Publication within the Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology is also awarded to a further 60 writers whose works are highly commended.

Aesthetica is proud to champion new writing talent and supports its writing alumni beyond the Prize, offering print and digital publicity and continued exposure across our channels.

Poetry entries £12 | Short Fiction entries £18 Submissions close 31 August 2021

More details

You may also like...

• Short fiction
• Short Stories
• Short Story writers
• News Review
• Links of week
• Editorial Services
• WritersServices Self-publishing
• Inside Publishing
• Links to sites
• Writers Bookstall

Writing Opportunities

Revisiting ? Don't forget to sign in !

• Getting Published
• Help for writers
• WritersServices Reviews

How WritersServices can help you...

'Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.'

Aspects of the Novel

• see more Quotes

Popular content

• Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency
• JCA Literary Agency Inc.
• Sarah Jane Freyman Literary Agency
• Perfection in short stories and novels
• 'Taking the prosaic and making it extraordinary'
• Metamorphosis Literary Agency
• Your Submission Package
• United Agents
• The Editor's View May 06
• Word count to page
• UK Literary Agent listing
• US agent listings
• Agent Listings
• Print & Supply

Last viewed:

• Short story collection to novel
• Bradt/Independent on Sunday Travel Writing Competition 2012
• Rosamunde Pilcher obituary | Books | The Guardian
• Fictional Versus Real Settings: A Writer’s Dilemma ‹ CrimeReads
• 'An airport novelist'
• Inkitt Literary Agency
• Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year | Literary Hub
• 'Not a threatened species'
• The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Book unit cost
• Donald Maass Literary Agency
• Our Autofiction Fixation - The New York Times
• Kindle Unlimited and the ongoing commoditization of books — Tech News and Analysis
• What's New

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that is a hotbed for new talent in Poetry and Short Fiction. Now in its 15th year, the Prize supports both emerging and established writers. By entering, writers can showcase their work to key industry figures and organizations including The Poetry Society,  Granta ,  VINTAGE, and more.

Shortlisted writers (20 fiction, 40 poetry) are awarded with publication in the  Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology   as well as online listing and inclusion in our press materials.

Two main winners are selected – one for poetry and one for fiction – each awarded with £2,500 as well as publication with the  Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology   and further awards with Aesthetica’s partner organizations.

Aesthetica is proud to champion new writing talent and supports its writing alumni beyond the Prize, offering print and digital publicity and continued exposure across our channels.

Entry Fee: Poetry £12 | Short Fiction £18

Entries open until August 31, 2021. Submissions are organized through our Submittable Platform.

Click here for more information

About The Author

Albany Poets

Related posts.

Literary Calls for Submissions

Call For Art: Poetic License 2024

Call for Submissions: Place

The Hudson Valley Writers Guild supports the efforts of writers in all genres by sponsoring readings, workshops, and contests and providing a number of valuable resources for the entire literary community.

• Non Fiction
• Next Up to The Mic
• Writers Read Live!
• Sanctuary Radio
• Writers Forum
• Literary Events Calendar
• Calls For Submissions

HVWG Newsletter

Keep in touch.

• 518-482-2639
• 265 River Street, Troy, NY 12180

Start typing and press enter to search

Creative writing prize: Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2021

Latest posts.

• BCA Career Opportunities
• Bronx Memoir Project
• BX Expressions
• Longwood Art Gallery
• Youth Engagement Program
• Bronx Artist Registry
• Artist Sustainability Workshop Series
• Cultural Assets Map
• Cultural History Map
• Convenings and Partnerships
• Bronx Cultural Visions Fund
• Bronx Dance Fund
• Community Arts
• Arts on the Block
• Bronx Recognizes its Own (BRIO)
• Call For Artists
• Jobs/Internships
• Studio Space
• Residencies/Grants
• Fellowships/Scholarships
• Submit An Opportunity
• Submit An Event
• Become a Grants Panelist

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2021

Tuesday, december 15, 2020, 8:00pm - 10:00pm, friday, january 15, 2021, monday, february 15, 2021, monday, march 15, 2021, thursday, april 15, 2021, saturday, may 15, 2021, tuesday, june 15, 2021, thursday, july 15, 2021, sunday, august 15, 2021, our sponsors.

2700 East Tremont Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 (718) 931-9500

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the Bronx Council on the Arts nurtures the development of a diverse array of artists and arts organizations and builds strong cultural connections in and beyond The Bronx.

BCA Newsletter Signup Form

Stay informed by subscribing.

Copyright © 2024 Bronx Council On The Arts. All Rights Reserved.  |  Privacy Policy  |  Terms & Conditions

Designed & Powered by Design Brooklyn

Forgot your password?  •  Don't have an account?

Competition: Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2022

By Writing.ie

• 3 June 2022

Competition deadline: 31st august 2022

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is celebrating 15 years of supporting outstanding writers. The Award was launched after the publication of Aesthetica Magazine, as a way to support the next generation of literary talent. Including both established and emerging practitioners to submit pieces on any theme, celebrating innovative poetry and short fiction. These were published in the Creative Works Annual. This publication was an anthology of new writing and new artwork, but as the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and the Art Prize started to reach more audiences, the decision was made in 2013 to separate them into two Awards with their own prizes and publications.

Aesthetica is looking for the best new writing talent. The £5,000 international literary prize is open to poetry and short fiction entries on any theme, celebrating innovation in content and form.

Since its establishment 15 years ago, the Creative Writing Award has provided a platform for poets and authors across the globe to showcase their work through publication, prize money and exposure.

Entry Fee: Poetry £12 | Short Fiction £18

£5,000 prize money (£2,500 for the Poetry Winner, £2,500 for the Short Fiction Winner) Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual Full membership to The Poetry Society (Poetry Winner) A free 10-week Online Course from  the Poetry School (Poetry Winner) Consultation with Redhammer Management (Fiction Winner) Selection of books from Vintage One year print subscription to Granta

Terms and Conditions

Poetry entries should be no more than 40 lines. Fiction entries should be no more than 2,000 words. Works published or entered elsewhere are accepted. We accept works on any theme. You may enter the Award as many times as you wish, although each work requires a fee and new submission form.

For more information, read our FAQs here . For further enquiries please email: [email protected]

Subscribe to our newsletter

Get all of the latest from writing.ie delivered directly to your inbox., featured books.

Your complete online writing magazine.

Guest blogs, courses & events.

Pawners Paper

• Book Review
• Non Fiction
• Literary News
• Call For Submissions
• Literary Magazines
• Affiliate Shop

Header$type=social_icons

Featured post, pawners paper calls for submissions.

Pawners Paper Is Back! Attention writers and wordsmiths ! We are thrilled to announce that Pawners Paper after a long hiatus, is now open fo...

The Asthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award 2021: Submit Your Poems And Fiction For $5000 Cash Prize — Pawners Paper

Aesthetica Magazine has released its interest in looking for the best new writing talent by organizing Creative Writing Award ; a poetry contest.

Aesthetics Creative Writing Award 2021 : Submit Your Work For $5000 Cash Prize And More

Click To Join Our WhatsApp Group For Faster Poetry And Other Writing Contest Updates, News and other Literary benefits  📲👍

About the aesthetica magazine creative writing award 2021, how to enter the poetry contest 2021: creative writing award.

• (£2,500 for the Poetry Winner, £2,500 for the Short Fiction Winner)
• Publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual
• Full membership to The Poetry Society (Poetry Winner)
• A free 10-week Online Course from  the Poetry School (Poetry Winner)
• Consultation with Redhammer Management (Fiction Winner)
• Selection of books from Vintage
• One year print subscription to Granta

Guidelines For The Writing Contest 2021

• Poetry entries should be no more than 40 lines.
• Fiction entries should be no more than 2,000 words.
• Works published or entered elsewhere are accepted.
• We accept works on any theme.
• You may enter the Award as many times as you wish, although each work requires a fee and new submission form.
• January 2020 – 31 August 2021: Entries open
• September 2021: Judging begins
• November 2021: Shortlisted writers are contacted and book proofs sent
• December 2021: Winners and are announced
• December 2021: Publication of winners and shortlist in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2022
• Poetry Competitions In Nigeria 2021
• Writing Competitions In Nigeria 2021
• Poetry Competitions UK 2021
• Magazines That Pay Per Poem
• Short Story Competitions 2021
• Literary Magazines Accepting Submissions 2021
• Poetry Competitions In Africa 2021
• Short Story Competitions In Nigeria 2021
• Literary Magazines In Nigeria/ Africa

• Advertise With Us

Sharing is caring

|recent posts$type=blogging$m=0$cate=0$sn=0$rm=0$c=12$va=0.

• Opportunities
• Call for Submission
• Essay Contests
• SHORT STORIES
• Annual Writing Contest
• Photography
• Book Reviews
• Literary Events
• Popular Authors Biographies
• Freelancing
• Flash Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Featured Profile
• Publishers weekly
• Art and Photography
• African (65)
• Annual Writing Contest (16)
• Art and Photography (1)
• Articles (154)
• Book Reviews (10)
• Call for Submission (101)
• Contest (427)
• Essay Contests (57)
• Featured Profile (2)
• Fiction (15)
• Flash Fiction (5)
• Literary Events (7)
• Literary Magazines (121)
• Literary News (92)
• Newsletter (1)
• Non-Fiction (4)
• Opportunities (156)
• Poetry (97)
• SHORT STORIES (17)

/fa-clock-o/ |TRENDING$type=list

RECENT_$type=list-tab$date=0$au=0$c=5

Comments_$type=list-tab$com=0$c=4$src=recent-comments, random_$type=list-tab$date=0$au=0$c=5$src=random-posts, /fa-fire/ year popular$type=one.

Subscribe To Pawners Paper

• Privacy Policy
• Terms And Conditions

Footer Social$type=social_icons

Subscribe & Save 70% (+p&p): 12 Months for £12

Want to read today? Our Digital   Downloads  are now available .

Creative Writing Award

Jump to navigation Skip to content

Search form

• P&W on Facebook
• P&W on Twitter
• P&W on Instagram

Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.

Find a home for your poems, stories, essays, and reviews by researching the publications vetted by our editorial staff. In the Literary Magazines database you’ll find editorial policies, submission guidelines, contact information—everything you need to know before submitting your work to the publications that share your vision for your work.

Whether you’re pursuing the publication of your first book or your fifth, use the Small Presses database to research potential publishers, including submission guidelines, tips from the editors, contact information, and more.

Research more than one hundred agents who represent poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers, plus details about the kinds of books they’re interested in representing, their clients, and the best way to contact them.

Every week a new publishing professional shares advice, anecdotes, insights, and new ways of thinking about writing and the business of books.

Find publishers ready to read your work now with our Open Reading Periods page, a continually updated resource listing all the literary magazines and small presses currently open for submissions.

Since our founding in 1970, Poets & Writers has served as an information clearinghouse of all matters related to writing. While the range of inquiries has been broad, common themes have emerged over time. Our Top Topics for Writers addresses the most popular and pressing issues, including literary agents, copyright, MFA programs, and self-publishing.

Our series of subject-based handbooks (PDF format; $4.99 each) provide information and advice from authors, literary agents, editors, and publishers. Now available: The Poets & Writers Guide to Publicity and Promotion, The Poets & Writers Guide to the Book Deal, The Poets & Writers Guide to Literary Agents, The Poets & Writers Guide to MFA Programs, and The Poets & Writers Guide to Writing Contests.

Find a home for your work by consulting our searchable databases of writing contests, literary magazines, small presses, literary agents, and more.

Poets & Writers lists readings, workshops, and other literary events held in cities across the country. Whether you are an author on book tour or the curator of a reading series, the Literary Events Calendar can help you find your audience.

Get the Word Out is a new publicity incubator for debut fiction writers and poets.

Research newspapers, magazines, websites, and other publications that consistently publish book reviews using the Review Outlets database, which includes information about publishing schedules, submission guidelines, fees, and more.

Well over ten thousand poets and writers maintain listings in this essential resource for writers interested in connecting with their peers, as well as editors, agents, and reading series coordinators looking for authors. Apply today to join the growing community of writers who stay in touch and informed using the Poets & Writers Directory.

Let the world know about your work by posting your events on our literary events calendar, apply to be included in our directory of writers, and more.

Find a writers group to join or create your own with Poets & Writers Groups. Everything you need to connect, communicate, and collaborate with other poets and writers—all in one place.

Find information about more than two hundred full- and low-residency programs in creative writing in our MFA Programs database, which includes details about deadlines, funding, class size, core faculty, and more. Also included is information about more than fifty MA and PhD programs.

Whether you are looking to meet up with fellow writers, agents, and editors, or trying to find the perfect environment to fuel your writing practice, the Conferences & Residencies is the essential resource for information about well over three hundred writing conferences, writers residencies, and literary festivals around the world.

Discover historical sites, independent bookstores, literary archives, writing centers, and writers spaces in cities across the country using the Literary Places database—the best starting point for any literary journey, whether it’s for research or inspiration.

Search for jobs in education, publishing, the arts, and more within our free, frequently updated job listings for writers and poets.

Establish new connections and enjoy the company of your peers using our searchable databases of MFA programs and writers retreats, apply to be included in our directory of writers, and more.

• Register for Classes

Each year the Readings & Workshops program provides support to hundreds of writers participating in literary readings and conducting writing workshops. Learn more about this program, our special events, projects, and supporters, and how to contact us.

The Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award introduces emerging writers to the New York City literary community, providing them with a network for professional advancement.

Find information about how Poets & Writers provides support to hundreds of writers participating in literary readings and conducting writing workshops.

Bring the literary world to your door—at half the newsstand price. Available in print and digital editions, Poets & Writers Magazine is a must-have for writers who are serious about their craft.

View the contents and read select essays, articles, interviews, and profiles from the current issue of the award-winning Poets & Writers Magazine .

Read essays, articles, interviews, profiles, and other select content from Poets & Writers Magazine as well as Online Exclusives.

View the covers and contents of every issue of Poets & Writers Magazine , from the current edition all the way back to the first black-and-white issue in 1987.

Every day the editors of Poets & Writers Magazine scan the headlines—publishing reports, literary dispatches, academic announcements, and more—for all the news that creative writers need to know.

In our weekly series of craft essays, some of the best and brightest minds in contemporary literature explore their craft in compact form, articulating their thoughts about creative obsessions and curiosities in a working notebook of lessons about the art of writing.

The Time Is Now offers weekly writing prompts in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction to help you stay committed to your writing practice throughout the year. Sign up to get The Time Is Now, as well as a weekly book recommendation for guidance and inspiration, delivered to your inbox.

Every week a new author shares books, art, music, writing prompts, films—anything and everything—that has inspired and shaped the creative process.

Listen to original audio recordings of authors featured in Poets & Writers Magazine . Browse the archive of more than 400 author readings.

Ads in Poets & Writers Magazine and on pw.org are the best ways to reach a readership of serious poets and literary prose writers. Our audience trusts our editorial content and looks to it, and to relevant advertising, for information and guidance.

Start, renew, or give a subscription to Poets & Writers Magazine ; change your address; check your account; pay your bill; report a missed issue; contact us.

Peruse paid listings of writing contests, conferences, workshops, editing services, calls for submissions, and more.

Poets & Writers is pleased to provide free subscriptions to Poets & Writers Magazine to award-winning young writers and to high school creative writing teachers for use in their classrooms.

Read select articles from the award-winning magazine and consult the most comprehensive listing of literary grants and awards, deadlines, and prizewinners available in print.

• Subscribe Now

Creative Writing Award

• Printable Version
• Log in to Send
• Log in to Save

Two prizes of £2,500 (approximately $3,171) each and publication in Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual are given annually for a poem and a short story. In addition, the winner in poetry receives a membership to the Poetry Society in London, a course from the arts organization Poetry School, and two online master classes from the London-based creative writing nonprofit Arvon. The winner in short fiction receives a five-day course from Arvon and a consultation with the literary agency Redhammer Management. Both winners receive subscriptions to Granta , London Magazine , and Mslexia ; membership to Litopia; and a six-week writing course from Curtis Brown Creative (a writing school led by authors and literary agents) in their respective genre. Each awarding organization offers online and in-person course options. Using only the online submission system, submit a poem of up to 40 lines with a £12 (approximately $15) entry fee or a short story of up to 2,000 words with an £18 (approximately $23) entry fee by August 31. All entries are considered for publication. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Aesthetica , Creative Writing Award, 21 New Street, York, YO1 8RA, England.

Please log in to continue. LOG IN Don't yet have an account? SIGN UP NOW -- IT'S FREE!

Exploring the art of prose

CRAFT Flash Prose Prize 2024

Craft 2024 flash prose prize, $3,600 awarded, guest judge: meg pokrass, september 1 – october 27, 2024 add to calendar.

Flash prose, in all its invigorating variety, demonstrates an uncanny ability to speak to the core of the matter. Whether flash fiction or flash creative nonfiction, the heart and heat of the work must make themselves undeniably known. For the CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize, Guest Judge Meg Pokrass offers flash writers some lively advice:

The key to making a reader care is in allowing the work to reflect our own human experience. A flash prose piece must contain dramatic urgency with which we, the reader, can connect with on a deep level. We care about characters who love messily, dream uneasily, and refuse to see their lives as hopeless. I will stand and cheer when a writer’s obsessions, worries, and dreams poke through every word. A piece may be technically brilliant—but what matters more is that it moves me. The successful flash prose writer must offer a personal vision, yet in doing so, illuminate the world we all share.

Submissions are open September 1 to October 27, 2024. Entries cost $20. Three winners will receive $1,000 each. Three additional editors’ choice selections will receive $200 each. Please carefully review our guidelines below—then send us your best flash prose!

GUIDELINES:

• Submissions are open to all writers, emerging and experienced. CRAFT is a market for adult literary fiction.
• International submissions are allowed.
• Please submit prose work primarily written in English, but some code-switching/meshing is warmly welcomed.
• Please submit flash prose ONLY! We’ll review both fiction and creative nonfiction for this prize.
• Please adhere to the 1,000 word count maximum per piece (you may send up to two flash prose pieces per submission).
• We review literary work but are open to a variety of genres and styles. Our only requirement is that you show excellence in your craft.
• Please send previously unpublished work only—we do NOT review reprints, or even partial reprints, for contests (including any form of self-publishing, blogs, personal websites, social media, et cetera). Reprints will be automatically disqualified.
• We allow simultaneous submissions—writers, please notify us immediately and withdraw your entry if your work is accepted to be published elsewhere.
• The $20 reading fee per entry allows up to two 1,000-word flash prose pieces—if submitting two works, please send them in a SINGLE document.
• We allow multiple submissions—please submit each flash piece (or set of two pieces) as a separate submission accompanied by a separate entry fee.
• All entries will be considered for general publication in CRAFT .
• Please double-space your submission and use Times New Roman 12.
• Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history and any content warnings, if applicable.
• We do not require anonymous submissions, but the guest judge will review the fifteen shortlisted pieces anonymously.
• Writers from historically marginalized groups will be able to submit for free until we reach fifty free submissions. This free category will close when we reach capacity. No additional fee waivers will be granted—please submit early if you qualify.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, disability, family status, gender identity or expression, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation, or for any other reason.
• Additionally, we do not tolerate discrimination in the writing we consider for publication: work we find discriminatory on any of the bases stated here will be declined without complete review.
• AI-generated submissions will be automatically disqualified.
• Unless you’ve already secured the necessary permissions, please do not include quoted song lyrics in your submitted work. Paraphrased lyrics are allowed, however, as are older lyrics that have already passed into the public domain.
• Any work that does not adhere to these guidelines will be automatically disqualified.
• We are always happy to help if you have questions. Email us: [email protected].

The writers of the three winning pieces will receive:

• $1,000 each;
• a bundle of the Rose Metal Press Field Guides ;
• and publication in CRAFT , with an introduction by the guest judge as well as an author’s note (short craft essay) to accompany the piece.

The writers of the three editors’ choice selections will receive:

• and publication in CRAFT , with an introduction by our editorial team as well as an author’s note (short craft essay) to accompany the piece.

FINE PRINT:

• Friends, family, and close associates of the guest judge are not eligible for consideration for the award.
• Our collaboration with editorial professionals in the judging and awarding of our contests does not imply an endorsement or recognition from their agencies, houses, presses, universities, et cetera.
• As we only consider unpublished writing for contests, and will publish the winning pieces in April 2025, anything under contract to publish prior to July 2025 should not be entered.

GUEST JUDGE:

CONTEST PARTNER:

OPTIONAL EDITORIAL FEEDBACK:

You may choose to receive editorial feedback on your flash prose. We will provide marginal notes, as well as a two-page global letter discussing the strengths of the writing and the recommended focus for revision. While editorial feedback is inherently subjective, our suggestions are always actionable and encouraging. We aim to have feedback completed within twelve weeks from the close of the contest. Work that we critique is not eligible for submission to future CRAFT contests, but can be revised and resubmitted in our general categories for further consideration.

Editorial Feedback Team:

JOANNA ACEVEDO (she/they) is the Pushcart-nominated author of three books and two chapbooks. Her work has been seen across the web and in print, including Free State Review , The Rumpus , and The Adroit Journal . She received her MFA in fiction from New York University in 2021 and also holds degrees from Bard College and The New School. Find her on Twitter @jo_avocado.

MELISSA BENTON BARKER is the flash fiction section editor at CRAFT . A graduate of the MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles, her writing appears in Longleaf Review , Moon City Review , Wigleaf , SmokeLong Quarterly , and Best Small Fictions 2021 . She has received Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations. She lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

KATE BLAKINGER is a writer and editor. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review , Epiphany , The Gettysburg Review , The Iowa Review , The Offing , and other journals . She is a Tin House Workshop alumna and holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. The Elizabeth George Foundation, MacDowell, Jentel, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center have supported her writing with fellowships. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.

ALYSE BURNSIDE is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic , The Nation , The Believer , and elsewhere. She’s working on a book.

HENRY CHRISTOPHER is an Ohioan writer living in Seattle, Washington. He received his BA from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in 2018, and his MFA from the University of Washington in 2023. While attending school in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Henry served as editor in chief for Penmarks Journal of Literature and Art , news writer for The Viewer , and presented in a roundtable conference on small press lit journals at the Sigma Tau Delta International English Honors Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the past, he has worked with CRAFT as section editor for critical essays and interviews, art and marketing assistant, and fiction reader; currently, he works as a marketing assistant for Fernwood Press. His creative writing has been presented at events such as Cleveland Drafts, Black Jaw, and Castalia, and has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Henry’s debut novel, No One Dies in Palmyra Ohio,  was published in October 2022 through What Books Press. He feels strongly about experimental works and queered forms, with passion for those composed outside traditional literary backgrounds. Currently, he publishes his writing through handmade, freely distributed zines around the Seattle area.

KYLE COCHRUN (he/him) is a writer living in Seattle, Washington. He is a contributing writer for PopMatters , where he writes features, interviews, and album reviews. His essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in  The Akron Anthology ,  Watershed Review ,  Echo,  and  CRAFT . He received an MFA in creative writing from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts graduate program.

ALEXA DORAN recently completed her PhD in poetry at Florida State University. Her full-length collection DM Me, Mother Darling  won the 2020 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and was published in April 2021 (Bauhan). She is also the author of the chapbook  Nightsink, Faucet Me a Lullaby (Bottlecap Press 2019). Look for work from Doran in recent or upcoming issues of  Pleiades ,  Witness, Salt Hill Journal , and  Gigantic Sequins , among others.

BRANDON DUDLEY is the author of Hazards of Nature: Stories , selected by Sigrid Nunez as the winner of the 2020 Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Chapbook Contest. His writing, interviews, and criticism have appeared in  New South, The Millions, The Forge, Fiction Writers Review, North by Northeast 2 , and others. He holds an MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. He lives in Maine with his wife and two sons. Find him on Twitter @brandondudley8.

ROSS FEELER ’s fiction has appeared in Electric Literature’ s “Recommended Reading,” The Common , New South , Potomac Review , Story | Houston , Hypertext , and others. His novel-in-progress received the Marianne Russo Award from the Key West Literary Seminar and was a finalist for James Jones First Novel Award. He teaches English at Texas State University.

B. B. GARIN is a writer living in Buffalo, New York. Her echapbook, New Songs for Old Radios , is available from Wordrunner Press. Her work has appeared in Hawaii Pacific Review , Luna Station Quarterly , Palooka , 3rd Wednesday , Crack the Spine , and more. She is currently a prose reader and blog contributor for The Masters Review . She continues to improve her craft at GrubStreet Writing Center, where she has developed several short fiction pieces, as well as two novels. Connect with her online @bb_garin.

COURTNEY HARLER (she/her) is a queer writer, editor, and educator based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe (2017) and an MA in English (Literature) from Eastern Washington University (2013). Courtney is currently editor in chief of CRAFT and editorial director for Discover New Art, and has read and written for UNT’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize, The Masters Review , Funicular Magazine , Reflex Fiction , and Chicago Literati in recent years. She hosted the literary podcast PWN’s Debut Review , and teaches and edits for Project Write Now, a nonprofit writing studio in New Jersey. For her creative work, Courtney has been honored by support from Key West Literary Seminar, Writing By Writers, Community of Writers, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Nevada Arts Council. Courtney’s work has been published in multiple genres in literary magazines around the world. Find her on Instagram @CourtneyHarler.

KATELYN KEATING (she/her) was the editor in chief of CRAFT from 2018 to 2021 and now serves as editor at large. She was a 2017 fellow of the LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop and has been on their faculty since 2018, overseeing PubLab , leading the magazine track as a program manager, and serving as the publisher coordinator for LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair. She is a production manager with Berrett-Koehler Publishers, and was the production and operations manager at Prospect Park Books until it left California in 2021. Her essays appear in Crab Orchard Review ,  Flyway ,  Lunch Ticket ,  Tahoma Literary Review , and elsewhere. Katelyn has an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, where she worked for two years on Lunch Ticket , serving as editor in chief for issues 11 and 12. Find her on Twitter @katelyn_keating.

JILL KOLONGOWSKI writes the Substack Tiny True Stories  and is also the author of the essay collection  Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me (Ulysses Press, 2017). Her work also appears in Electric Lit , Insider , the  Los Angeles Review of Books , Brevity , River Teeth , and elsewhere. Her essays have won Sundog Lit ’s First Annual Contest series and the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Nonfiction at  Lunch Ticket , and she earned her MFA from St. Mary’s College of California. Jill teaches writing at the College of San Mateo, and lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter. Find her on Twitter @jillkolongowski.

VAL M. MATHEWS  is a big-hearted, fun-loving editor who teaches courses in developmental editing for the University of California Berkeley Extension, Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, and the Editorial Freelancers Association in New York City. Val also freelances on the side and works as an editorial consultant for  CRAFT  and  The Masters Review . Previously, she was an editor for The Wild Rose Press, a small traditional publishing house in New York. She earned an MA in professional writing from Kennesaw State University and a BFA from the University of Georgia. Fun fact about Val: She’s been an FAA-certified flight instructor for over twenty-five years, and in the past, she flew Lear jets for a living.

GABRIEL MOSELEY is a writer from Seattle, Washington. He holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and certificates in both editing and literary fiction from the University of Washington. His short story, “A Man Stands Tall,” was awarded The Masters Review Anthology Prize in 2017, selected by Roxane Gay. He received the General Motors’ Future Fiction Scholarship to attend Aspen Summer Words in 2023 and was chosen for the Jack Straw Writers Program in 2024. He has been selected for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Centrum Artist Residency, and Seattle Public Library’s Writers’ Room Residency. He has also been named as a finalist for the Made at Hugo House Writing Fellowship, LitMag ’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, and the Haleakalā National Park Residency. He has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Disquiet International, among others. His work appears in The Masters Review , Stratus , and Nordic Kultur Magazine.

JUSTINE PAYTON  is an MFA candidate at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington where she is a recipient of the Philip Gerard Graduate Fellowship and the Bernice Kert Fellowship in Creative Writing. She has been published or has work forthcoming in the  Bellevue Literary Review , Isele Magazine , T he Masters Review , The Keeping Room, and   others. She is currently the managing editor of  ONLY POEMS , an editor for Ecotone , and an editorial intern with Tin House. Find her on Instagram @just_a_rose4.

REBECCA REYNOLDS has an MFA in creative writing. Her short fiction has been published in various literary magazines, including Ascent , MudRoom , and The Boiler , and her story collection This Is How We Speak is forthcoming with Cornerstone Press. She lives outside Boston with her husband and three boys, and by day she is a children’s librarian. Find her on Twitter @rsreynolds611.

GAGE SAYLOR is the assistant director of creative writing at Oklahoma State University. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Passages North ,  Tampa Review ,  Crab Creek Review ,  Iron Horse , and elsewhere. He has won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize at  Nimrod and is a previous semifinalist for the Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize at  North American Review . He received his MFA at McNeese State University, where he was awarded the Robert Olen Butler Prize for Fiction.

CHLOE CHUN SEIM is the author of CHURN , an illustrated novel-in-stories, which won the 2022 George Garrett Fiction Prize and was named a finalist for Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Texas Review Press published CHURN in late 2023. Chloe’s fiction has appeared in LitMag , where she won the 2021 Anton Chekov Award for Flash Fiction, and in Split Lip Magazine , The McNeese Review , Potomac Review , and more. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

After retiring from full-time work, DAVID K. SLAY completed a two-year program of short fiction writing workshops in the University of California, Los Angeles, Writers’ Program. His short stories, flash fiction, and microfiction can be found in a group of diverse literary journals, including Door Is A Jar , Gold Man Review , ImageOutWrite, The Magnolia Review , Random Sample Review , Ginosko Literary Journal , American Writers Review , and others. Nonfiction craft articles are in CRAFT and Submittable’s “Content for Creatives,” and he has served as a guest editor for Vestal Review . He has been a submissions reader for CRAFT since 2019, and is currently an associate editor for the short fiction section.

• Short Stories
• Flash Fiction
• Longform Creative Nonfiction
• Flash Creative Nonfiction
• Craft & Critical Essays
• Books by CRAFT Contributors
• Flash Prose Prize
• Dialogue Challenge 2024
• First Chapters Contest 2024
• EcoLit Challenge 2024
• Short Fiction Prize 2024
• Novelette Print Prize 2024
• Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest 2023
• Flash Prose Prize 2023
• Setting Sketch Challenge 2023
• First Chapters Contest 2023
• Character Sketch Challenge 2023
• Short Fiction Prize 2023
• Hybrid Writing Contest 2023
• Creative Nonfiction Award 2022
• Amelia Gray 2K Contest 2022
• First Chapters Contest 2022
• Short Fiction Prize 2022
• Hybrid Writing Contest 2022
• Creative Nonfiction Award 2021
• Flash Fiction Contest 2021
• First Chapters Contest 2021
• Short Fiction Prize 2021
• Short Fiction Prize 2020
• Flash Fiction Contest 2020
• Creative Nonfiction Award 2020
• Elements Contest 2020: Conflict
• Short Fiction Prize 2019
• Flash Fiction Contest 2019
• First Chapters Contest 2019
• Short Fiction Prize 2018
• Elements Contest 2018: Character | Dialogue Setting
• CRAFT 2024 Fall Salon
• Fast Response
• Editorial Feedback Platform

« All Writing Competitions

• This competition has passed.

Aesthetica Creative Writing Award – Poetry

31 august 2023.

• Deadline:  31 August 2023
• Entry Fee: £12
• Prizes:  Winner: £2,500 , publication and an Arvon writing course
• Word Limit: 40 lines
• Category:  Poetry Competitions
• Competition Website:   aestheticamagazine.com/creative-writing-award

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award offers two prizes, one for poetry and one for short fiction. Run by Aesthetica magazine, there is a brilliant bundle of prizes available for the winner. These include the rather substantial £2,500 cash prize, publication in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual and a five-day course from Arvon. The winner of the poetry competition will also receive gull membership to The Poetry Society, a course from  the Poetry School and a one-year print subscription to Poetry London.

The judging panel is made up if editors and publishers from a wide range of organisations and publications and previous winners have become winners or made the shortlist of some of the biggest awards around including the TS Eliot Prize, the National Poetry Competition and the Costa Book Award.

• Google Calendar
• Outlook 365
• Outlook Live