We’ve just opened loads more Northern Writers’ Awards for entries!
Until Tuesday 10 March, writers across the North of England are invited to submit their works-in-progress for one or more of the following awards:
– The Arvon Award, for prose writers at any career stage.
– The Finchale Award for Short Fiction, for writers at any career stage of a single, unpublished short story.
– The Northern Promise TLC Awards, for poets, prose writers and children’s writers who may have faced barriers to seeing their work progress.
– The Northumbria University Student and Alumni Award, for current students and recent graduates of Northumbria University.
– The Sid Chaplin Award, for writers of fiction and narrative non-fiction from working-class backgrounds.
– NEW FOR 2026: The Tees Valley Award, for fiction and narrative non-fiction writers ay any career stage, living in the Tees Valley.
– The Tempest Prize, for unpublished LGBTQ+ writers.
And don’t forget that the Charlotte Aitken Trust Awards for Poetry, Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction and the Children’s Books North Network Prize are still open for entries until 26 February!
Thanks to all our partners and donors whose generous support makes these awards possible: Tees Valley Combined Authority, Arvon, The Literary Consultancy, Northumbria University, Newcastle University, the Chaplin family, Benjamin Myers, and Andrew McMillan.
Find out more and enter your work here.
Deadlines: various
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