The Impress Prize is open to fiction and nonr fiction by anyone aged 18 and over who has NOT published a book-length publication before.
Closing Date: 17 June 2013
Administrative charge: £10.
Details on Impress Prize website.
Month: May 2013
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Impress Prize for New Writers: closing date 17 June 2013
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Poet Don Paterson to read at Woodstock: 22 May 2013
Don Paterson’s poetry has won awards including the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, and (twice) the TS Eliot Prize. Most recently, Rain won the 2009 Forward prize.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the English Association< Don Paterson was awarded the OBE in 2008 and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010. Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews, he has been Poetry Editor at Picador since 1996.
Tickets £5; free to students: limited spaces, please book in advance. Ring or email The Woodstock Bookshop for information.
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Aesthetica Creative Writing competition: closing date 31 August 2013
The competition invites “imaginative work that pushes the boundaries of the two categories for entry: Poetry and Fiction”.
More information at www.aestheticamagazine.com/creativewriting
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William Hazlitt Essay Prize (Notting Hill Editions): closing date 1 August 2013
Notting Hill Editions has launched an annual literary prize for the best essay in the English language, of between 2,000 and 8,000 words, published or unpublished, on any subject.
The chair of judges is author and journalist Harry Mount. The other judges are Gaby Wood, Adam Mars-Jones, Lady Antonia Fraser, David Shields.
Entries between 2,000 and 8,000 words.
Entry fee £10.Award £15,000.
Five runners-up will each receive £1000.Authors of any nationality are eligible, but submissions must have been written originally in English.“If already published, the essay must have appeared for the first time in periodical (print or online) but not book form, between 1 January 2012 and 31 July 2013.”Further details on the website.
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