Closing date 30 September 2011
Open to unpublished women novelists writing in any genre for adults
Entry fee: £25
First Prize £5,000 Read more
Closing date 24 January 2011
First prize: £2,000
Eligibility: open to unpublished female writers from all over the world
Entry fee £10 per story Read more
Closing date 26 July 2010
Entry fee £5 for up to three poems.
First prize £1,000
Second £500
Third £250 and 22 other finalists will receive £25 each.
All winning poems will be published in Mslexia magazine.
Open to women writers only. Read more
Deadline: 15 June 2012
Eligibility: open to all writers resident in the UK, published or unpublished
Prizes: a holiday for two in Abruzzo and publication of the winning entry in the travel section of The Independent on Sunday. Read more
If you’re a woman who writes poetry, the Mslexia Poetry Competition could see you £1,000 richer.
The closing date for entries is 27 April.
1st Prize £1000
2nd prize £500
3rd prize £250
22 other finalists will win £25 each and all winning poems will be published in Mslexia, Read more
Judge: Kathleen JamieEntry Fee: £7 for up to 3 poems Read more
Open to all women
Closing date 25 April 2008 Read more
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'The novel is likely, if the best literary brains cannot be induced to return to it, to survive in some perfunctory, despised and hopelessly degenerate form, like modern tombstones, or the Punch and Judy show.’
in 1936