The latest writing opportunities for June 2024.
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Profiles
Deadline: 4th June
Profiles is a Dublin based literary journal that publishes character-driven fiction and non-fiction — both original works and works in translation — under 5,000 words. They’re interested in publishing character studies. They love writing that channels the author’s insatiable curiosity about other people (or their talent for self-reflection), is empathetic without bordering on apologia, and shows human nature as it is, not necessarily as it should be. They produce lovely work and they also pay their contributors so definitely submit if you have something that you feel might suit them.
Molly Keane Creative Writing Award 2024
Deadline: 14th June
The Arts Office, Waterford City & County Council by kind permission of the Keane family is now inviting entries for a previously unpublished short story for this years’ award. There is a cash prize of €250 plus a writing course under the auspices of the Molly Keane Writers Retreat, Ardmore to the value of €300 for the winner and there is no entry fee. Full guidelines and the online submission details are now live on the Waterford Submit platform. This competition is for writers living on the island of Ireland.
Channel
Deadline: 20th June
Channel’s aim is to provide a home for Irish and international writing that contributes to building rich, mutually sustaining relationships between human beings and the natural world. In all uses of the word, a “channel” exists to facilitate connection – to allow something, whether it be water, an electronic signal or a spirit, to pass through or towards something else. This journal exists to provide a passage through which ideas about human relationships with our environment, expressed and embodied in creative work, can flow.
Write By the Sea Writing Competition
Deadline: 21st June
Part of the Write By the Sea literature festival, this lovely competition has been running for years. There are four competition categories: Fiction Short Story (maximum 2,500 words) Flash Fiction (maximum 700 words) Poetry (maximum 40 lines) Memoir/Personal Essay (maximum 1,000 words). The winner of each category will receive a cash prize of €500 and a free weekend pass to Write By The Sea festival 2024. All four winning pieces will be published on the Write By The Sea website. The runners-up in each category will receive €300 and third place will receive €200. Entrants can submit as many entries as they wish at €10 per entry, or enter 3 pieces, in the same or different genres, for €25.
Free Flash Fiction Competition Twenty-Two
Deadline: 23rd June
The Free Flash Fiction website is a space to promote a broad range of flash fiction, publish the work of new and established authors and provide stories to read for free.
Submit a flash fiction piece of between 100 and 300 words, on any theme.
1 Winner will receive £150.00 and publication
2 Highly Commended will receive £50.00 and publication
3 Shortlisted will receive £40.00 and publication
Judge TBC. £3.95 fee per entry/story via PayPal or Stripe. £2.55 fee per entry/story
The Moth Short Story Prize
Deadline: 20th June
The Moth Short Story Prize is an international prize, open to anyone from anywhere in the world, as long as their story is original and previously unpublished. The winners are chosen by a single judge each year, who reads the stories anonymously.
Previous judges include Ottessa Moshfegh, Kevin Barry, Mark Haddon, Ali Smith and Sarah Hall and this years judge is Louise Kennedy.
1st prize €3,000
2nd prize a week at Circle of Misse plus open travel stipend
3rd prize €1,000
There is a word limit of 3,000 and the entry fee is €15 per story.
The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Deadline: 1st July
This prize supports writers who have not yet published a book-length work, with no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners of each category will receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri magazine. All winners and shortlisted writers will be offered the Chapter and Verse or Free Reads mentoring scheme in partnership with The Literary Consultancy (dependent on eligibility), and a conversation with The Good Literary Agency to discuss their career progression.
There are three categories: Life Writing, Poetry and Fiction.
No entry may exceed 3,000 words.
It costs £12 per entry.
Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition 2024
Deadline: 31st July
The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition is an annual short story competition open to writers from around the world, submissions accepted from May 1st to July 31st annually. It is dedicated to one of Ireland’s most accomplished story writers and theorists and is sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre.
Due to the large volume of entries, the judge will not be able to notify the authors of non-winning entries or give individual feedback. A shortlist will be posted on our website homepage by late September / early October, with winners and runners-up contacted before the public announcement. If you need to withdraw an entry, please email info@munsterlit.ie. We recommend following us on social media or signing up for our newsletter to stay up to date with all competition developments directly.
Heroines Anthology Volume 6
Deadline: 30th June 2025
Heroines Anthology publishes literary writing by women. The anthology focuses on telling women’s lost history, untold stories, and myths, fairy tales, folklore or legends reimagined from the perspective of their women characters.
Our special theme for this edition is witchcraft: from the history of witches and witch trials, to medicine women, mystics and herbalists, spells and enchantments, shapeshifters and familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. This will be the Heroines Anthology’s sixth edition.
Before submission, we strongly advise writers to read a previous volume of Heroines Anthology to get a feel for what the editors are looking for and to check what stories and myths have already been covered. Anthology copies can be ordered at a 10% discount. All submissions are considered for the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize.
Submission fee per poem of $15 (If you have financial issues & cannot pay this fee please contact us)
We accept submissions from women writers from anywhere in the world
All submissions will be considered for the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize
First prize winner receives $500
All short-listed entries are published in Volume 6 of the Anthology
The Dublin Review
Deadline: Ongoing.
The Dublin Review welcomes submissions of fiction and non-fiction previously unpublished in the English language. We do not accept poetry submissions. We especially encourage submissions from members of groups traditionally underrepresented in literary magazines and other cultural forums.
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