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A source of writing challenges, competitions, prompts and ideas to get you started, keep you going, and help you achieve your writing dreams...
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The Creative Splurge @thecreativesplurge.bsky.social · May 14
Want to write more? Something? Anything!?
Don't know where to start (or how to keep going)?
Here at TCS, we share writing challenges, competitions, and tips so you can build a creative writing practice.
Join in here → https://www.thecreativesplurge.com/
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€2,500 is up for grabs in the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize, which is open for up to 6,000-word stories until 30 November 2025.

All the details are here →
www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize/

#WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Submit your fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid work (1,000 words) and poetry (2 pages) on what shelter means today to Glossy Planet by 15 Nov for a $1,000 prize.
All the details are here →
https://www.glossyplanetmag.com/challenge/a-house-divided/
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A House Divided - November 2025 Writing Challenge
We want writing that explores what the shape of shelter means today. Learn more about Glossy Planet's November 2025 writing challenge theme.
www.glossyplanetmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Emerging writers, be among the first 300 to submit your most compelling and vital short fiction (up to 5,000 words) for The Varnish Prize for Fiction. Closes 15 Nov!

All the details are here →
https://www.varnishlit.com/varnish-fiction-prize

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The Varnish Prize for Fiction – Varnish Literary Journal
We’re looking for submissions of the most compelling, formally-inventive and vital unpublished short fiction. Closes 15 November.
www.varnishlit.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Join the Twisted Tournament for 3 rounds of prompt-driven 500-, 250- and 100-word story submissions. It's on this week!
Get more details here →
https://twistedtournament.com/register-for-contest

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Register for Contests - Twist in the Tale Writing Competitions
Join Twist in the Tale Writing Competitions - Team and Tournament Contests
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November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Write a poem about dreams for Off Topic Publishing’s November competition, closing 10 November.

Submit up 20 lines and receive judges’ feedback.
All the details are here →

offtopicpublishing.com/contest/

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@offtopicpublishing.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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With no entry fee and a mere 55-hour window, are you ready for November's 500-word Furious Fiction challenge?

Starting Friday 7 Nov, give it a go! Low stakes, high fun!

The details are here →

https://www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fiction/

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #TCS #FuriousFiction
Just a moment...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Are you up for a 50,000-word writing sprint? 
Or do you prefer flash, short or micro writing instead? 
Find out about more writing challenges and competitions, and sign up to keep informed at:

https://www.thecreativesplurge.com/ 

#WritingCommunity #Novel #AmWriting #TCS #NaNoWriMo
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Find out about writing challenges and competitions for writers of all ages and stages
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November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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ProWritingAid are supporting novel writers with tracking tools, writing sessions and advice this November.

www.prowritingaid.com/novel-november

#NaNoWriMo #ProWritingAid #NovelNovember #TCS
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Reedsy are offering cash incentives totalling $8,500 to encourage you to write this November. 
Submit your first chapter and you might win a Literary Agent intro too!

https://reedsy.com/studio/challenges/reedsy-novel-sprint-2025

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Reedsy Novel Sprint 2025 – A November Novel Writing Contest
Write 50,000 words in 30 days in Reedsy Studio and win up to $5,000 in cash prizes and introductions to a literary agent ► Join the novel writing competition!
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November 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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As First Draft November say: ”NaNoWriMo is canceled. Your novel isn't.” 

Join them for thirty days of support and encouragement.

www.firstdraftnovember.com/

#NaNoWriMo #FirstDraftNovember #TCS
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Last chance, Commonwealth Writers!!!
Submit your 2000-5000-word short fiction by 1 Nov for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize of £5,000, plus more!

All the details are here →

https://commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-prize/

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #ShortStory #TCS @cwfcreatives
Commonwealth Short Story Prize - Commonwealth Foundation
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November 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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It’s November! Feeling a 50,000-word itch for a writing challenge?
Get support and tools for your November writing project!

3 ways to write your novel this November are in the thread below, or get more details at:

https://www.thecreativesplurge.com/ 

#WritingCommunity #Novel #TCS #NaNoWriMo
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Find out about writing challenges and competitions for writers of all ages and stages
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November 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Our flash fiction competition is open to writers of any level of experience (or none) anywhere in the world. The winner will be published in our winter issue and there's a prize of £25 (or equivalent) so... what are you waiting for? 🤷🏻‍♂️👉🏻 penstricken.com/competitions

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Competitions
Competitions Winter 2025 Flash Fiction Competition Subtext: the delicate art of saying one thing while meaning another. It’s also one of those things that separates good writing from exceptio…
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September 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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HONK HOOONK

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September 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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penstricken.bsky.social
You know what? I bet you'd win our flash fiction contest if you entered it. I've just got a feeling about you, kiddo. I see £25 (or equivalent) prize money + publication in our winter issue in your future. 🔮👀

penstricken.com/competitions

#fiction #writersky #writingcontest
Competitions
Competitions Winter 2025 Flash Fiction Competition Subtext: the delicate art of saying one thing while meaning another. It’s also one of those things that separates good writing from exceptio…
penstricken.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
thecreativesplurge.bsky.social
With no entry fee and a mere 55-hour window, are you ready for September's 500-word Furious Fiction challenge?

Starting Friday 5 Sept, give it a go! Low stakes, high fun!

All the details are here →
https://www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fiction/

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #TCS #FuriousFiction
Just a moment...
www.writerscentre.com.au
September 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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#30words30days

Day 2 - Discover

Happy Writings! ✏️

#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #FlashFiction #microfiction #microlit #writing #ShortWriting #30words30dayscommunity #writingprompts #prompts #discover

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Written on a blue-green background surrounded by vividly-coloured typewriter keys, text reads: #30words30days Day 2 : Discover @writingdani Danielle Baldock
September 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Woohoo, #30words30days September. Thank you, @danielle-baldock.bsky.social! 🙏❤️ #WritingCommunity #amwriting #flashfiction #microfiction #microlit #writing #shortwriting #30words30dayscommunity #writesky
September 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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"I hope, or I could not live."

—H. G. Wells
August 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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TIME TO PANIC! 😱

That #FLESHfiction deadline really snuck up on us all!

Whatever you do, you need to get *something* over the line, because you’re not going to wanna miss the fun to come!
August 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

Maya Angelou

Artist:
Art Remedy

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August 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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One week till deadline for the #flashfiction #competition about moments of epiphany where attitudes/behaviours change for the greener – see www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fictio... £1000 ($1200) worth of prizes. We'd like to see more entries in transport and food categories. #writers #writinggroups
Flash Fiction Competition: Epiphanies! - Green Stories Project
The Flash Fiction Competition: Epiphanies! invites stories of up to 500-words long, on the theme of making changes for the greener.
www.greenstories.org.uk
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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trevorflanagan.bsky.social
The August #TwistedTournament #WritingCompetition is here 😎 This unique competition has 3 back-to-back #MicroFiction stories of 500, 250, and 100 words respectively followed by a week of #PeerJudging 💜❤️😎
Anyone wishing to take part, it's not too late - head over to: twistedtournament.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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€1,000 is up for grabs in the Anthology Magazine Short Story Competition, which is open for up to 1,500-word stories until 31 August 2025.

All the details are here →
https://anthology-magazine.com/awards/short-story-competition

#WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS #AnthologyMagazine
Short Story Competition - Anthology Creative Awards
Entries are now invited for the prestigious Anthology Short Story Competition – open to original and previously unpublished short stories
anthology-magazine.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:47 AM
thecreativesplurge.bsky.social
€300 is up for grabs in the Anthology Magazine Flash Fiction Competition, which is open for up to 250-word stories until 30 September 2025.

All the details are here →
https://anthology-magazine.com/awards/flash-fiction-competition/

#WritingCommunity #WritingContest #TCS #AnthologyMagazine
Flash Fiction Competition | Anthology | Luxury lifestyle magazine and creative awards
The Anthology Flash Fiction Competition is established to inspire creativity, great writing and to provide a platform for publication.
anthology-magazine.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM