The FWNN Round-up: Writing bursaries, prizes, submissions and more!

The first installment of the Freelance Writing Network's mega round-up of bursaries, prizes, submissions, webinars and much more - coming at you at least once a month!

Hello!

Welcome to the FWNN’s first round-up of deadlines. This will be coming at you at least monthly for the time being, exclusive to premium subscribers.

In this round-up I’ve put together a whopping 40 different opportunities. It includes all sorts, including bursaries, awards, short story and poetry submissions, novel submission requests, writing retreats, webinars, prizes and all sorts.

It’s a huge range of content for you to explore. To use an old English saying, as writers we often have our fingers in many pies. We aren’t just doing one thing, we’re journalists, authors, teachers, copywriters, working in content mills, submitting to lit mags. Not one writer I know earns in one way.

So, hopefully this premium round-up can be of use to you. There’s such a wide range of opportunities that I’m confident any subscriber to the Freelance Writing Network can make use of something here.

And like I say, this is available in full to premium members only, so make sure you’re all signed up!

Deadlines Coming Up…

• To spotlight and support emerging female writing talent in film and TV, Women in Film & TV UK is hosting their second annual WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab 2024. Be warned this closes May 28th so worth getting on if this is of interest to you.

• Submit your best Poetry / Fiction / Nonfiction for StreetLit’s Spring Contest. You are competing with each other, between genres. You are encouraged for creativity, range of detail in their submission thread. Deadline May 28th so get on this one soon!

• MEOJobs is offering a free media career consultation, if you register for their upcoming webinar on Wednesday. Worth a look as this means you will need to do so before May 29th.

• The Stinging Fly is open for submissions until Wednesday May 29th at 5pm (Irish time). Submission details here!

• Voyage YA by Uncharted is looking for young adult fiction that reinvents reality for their ‘Through the Looking Glass’ Challenge. “Whether your work takes us all the way to another world or simply holds a warped mirror up to the ordinary, we want to see writing that contorts existence into something new, something we’ve never seen before.” Deadline is May 30th.

• The Bridport Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the literary world. Their competition is currently open in the categories of: poetry, short story, flash and novel. Deadline is May 30th.

• Wishbone Words is an online magazine publishing creative writing, art, and photography from chronically ill, disabled, and/or neurodiverse creators. Their submissions are open until May 31st.