Competitions – Page 2 – Croydon Writers

Globe Soup Open closes

Dec 9, 2025

The earth turned into a spinning bowl of soup

The Globe Soup Open competition, with a Grand Prize of £2,000, closes on 16 December.

Telegraph Poetry

Nov 28, 2025

The Daily Telegraph has a poetry competition. UK residents only, no cash prize but a year’s subscription, publication and performance in a short film. The theme is ‘Mothers’.

Our anthology of entries to the Michael Round Prize is now available on Amazon! The paperback is priced at £8.99 and the Kindle version at £3.00 (outside the UK it may be a few days more before it appears). The cover design, by our own Jo Bodley, includes elements that refer to several of the stories. The main pomegranate motif is from the Palestinian embroidery tradition of tatreez, mentioned in the winning story.

Please do buy copies (they make great Christmas presents) and give us good reviews.

Poetry Prompts

Oct 22, 2025

The Poetry Society has issued a new set of prompts. These are intended for people entering their current competition but might be of general interest to poets.

November 2025 Competitions

Oct 21, 2025

Here is my latest list of writing competitions…

Fabulist Fiction Contest

Oct 17, 2025

Omnidawn’s Fabulist Fiction Contest, for chapbooks or novelettes, is back. ‘Fabulist’ is interpreted quite widely and this is for work of the unusual length of 7,500 to 17,500 words.

Monsters We Made

Oct 3, 2025

Glossy Planet is a new magazine which will run a monthly challenge for short, topical pieces of prose or poetry (1,000 words or two pages). The theme will be announced only shortly beforehand, and the first is ‘Monsters we Made’. First prize $1,000…

Judging

Oct 1, 2025

The Michael Round Prize 2025 is now closed. Thanks to everyone who took part.
The competition, which was free to enter, is for pieces of fiction up to 1,200 words long, and is dedicated to the memory of our late and much-missed Chairman. The competition attracted more than 270 entries from 37 different countries. Thanks to our hard working panel, the judging process is already well in hand and we will announce the results at our November meeting.