Right 

In my own right I’ll say Julie was not always right For she would think her left was the right But her right wasn’t the right, but the left Twas hard to tell her That the right was wrong Since...

The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction

Name: The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short FictionCategory: Short fictionWord count: maximum of 6000 wordsEntry fee: FreePrize: £500 and publicationClosing date: October 23, 2020. Comma Press and...

St. Lawrence County Arts Council: Call for Artists November 2020

Name: “Fiber Arts” Call for Artists November 2020Category: ArtworkNumber of Artworks: 1-5 piecesEntry fee: FreePrize: 70% of the listed price for the artworkClosing date: October 25...

Purple Velvet

My wondering eyes First beheld the shimmer of indigo Ever before my gaze inclined with the bearer Of magical aura Life and death at just a wink   Purple velvet It beamed conspicuous Thick the...

Beechmore Life Writing Competition 2020

Name: Beechmore Life Writing CompetitionCategory: Short storyWord count: 1000 wordsEntry fee: FreePrize: £200, publication on Beechmore Books website, and a notebook of your choiceClosing date:...

The Jack Grapes Poetry Prize 2020

Name: Jack Grapes Poetry PrizeCategory: PoetryWord count: Not specifiedEntry fee: FreePrize: $3 winners will get $200 each and 6 finalists will get $50 each  Closing date: 31 August 2020 Cultural...

2020 Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship

Name: Miles Morland Foundation Writing ScholarshipCategory: Prose (fiction and non-fiction)Word count: proposal of a full-length bookEntry fee: FreePrize: £18,000 in grantClosing date: 18...

Poetry Wales – Poetry Submissions

Name: Poetry Wales – Poetry SubmissionsCategory: PoetryWord count: 6 poems (no specific word-count)Entry fee: FreePrize: £20 per pageClosing date: 7/31/2020 for issue 56.2 and 1/1/2021 for...

The New Voices Award

Name: The New Voices AwardCategory: Fiction, Non-fiction, PoetryWord count: maximum of 1500 wordsEntry fee: FreePrize: $2000 and publication dealClosing date: August 31, 2020. Lee and Low Books...

The ArabLit Story Prize

Name: The ArabLit Story PrizeCategory: Short storyWord count: 3000 words or fewerEntry fee: FreePrize: $500Closing date: July 16, 2020. ArabLit Quarterly is a four-times-yearly magazine that...

Emma Lazarus Project Poetry Contest

Name: The Emma Lazarus Project Poetry ContestCategory: PoetryWord count: between 14 and 20 linesEntry fee: FreePrize: A trip to New York City for the award ceremony and publication on their...

Biopage Story Writing Contest

Name: Biopage Story Writing ContestCategory: Short storyWord count: 5,000 characters or roughly 1,000 wordsEntry fee: FreePrize: $1,000 (winner), $200 each (three runners-up)Closing date: July...

Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Name: Drue Heinz Literature PrizeCategory: Short fictionWord count: Not requiredEntry fee: FreePrize: $15,000Closing date: June 30, 2020. The University of Pittsburgh Press is accepting...

Variant Literature Writing Contest

Name: Variant Literature Writing ContestCategory: Poetry and FictionWord count: Not requiredEntry fee: FreePrize: Publication contractClosing date: June 30, 2020. You can now submit to the...

Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women

Name: Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for WomenCategory: Non-fiction writingWord count: Maximum of 3000 wordsEntry fee: Free for eligible writersPrize: Rs.100,000Closing date: June 30, 2020....

V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize

Name: V.S. Pritchett Short Story PrizeCategory: Short storyWord count: 2000 – 4000Entry fee: £7.50 per entry. Free for low-income writersPrize: £1,000Closing date: July 3, 2020. The Royal...

You and the Ring

No candle light No sweet scent No Sheeran’s “Perfect” Just you And the thought Of where he should have been   No white gown No down the aisle No Priest’s “say...

Free Friday Cocktail

It was Friday again You called her — as it was your manner Same rendezvous The corner of the bar Where the spinning rainbow ignores your existence She’s your Meerkat and that’s her...

He Found Me

I was stripped of my rind Then discarded I was a forsaken matter The type you find in the refuse With malodorous neigbours And the songs of the flies   Dampened and depraved I thought that...

A New Orge on the Street

There used to be orges on the street They used to be wars of loud bang Of the songs that filled the street with raving wails and gnash Of AKs that drilled our walls Of thunderous boom That turned...

My Day

This is Me

I Ask No Man Pardon

Chapter 1: O Murdres! This world, you know, is concrete. And did I mention cold?” I said lying on the bed. My lower body was inside the black velvety quilt. I put a cigarette between my lips,...

I won’t leave you

I won’t leave you, ever You will be my always, forever Even if you bleed me Even if you crush me Even if you harm me Even if you disturb me I won’t leave you, ever I love you,...