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Who doesn’t love free-entry writing competitions?

In my last post, I revealed a New Year’s resolution to enter more writing competitions. If that’s also your resolution for 2021, I want to help by sharing some comps for you to have a go at. All the contests in the list are free-entry writing competitions with deadlines this month and next. Prizes vary, but I’ve tried to only include the ones with cash prizes, or that publish in an established journal.

And just a quick note, I’m definitely not against writing comps who charge fees to enter. There’s lots of reasons why they might want/need to, usually because of the work involved in judging the huge volume of entries, and to generate prize money.

The problem is, you often end up spending a chunk of money to send your work into the void and never hear back. With free-entry writing competitions at least it costs you nothing, you can think of them as writing exercises, and you have the piece to try to sell at the end of the day.

Right, I’m off to pen some entries. Who’s with me? Drop a comment below if you’re entering any comps and, of course, let me know how you get on. Happy writing!

Free-Entry Writing Competitions