Too many options when it comes to submitting your work? Here’s our top five comps and subs for September 2025.
Name: Southam Book Festival Flash Fiction Competition 2025
Deadline: 7th September 2025
Wordcount: 100 words including the title
Genre: Flash Fiction
Description:
The Southam Book Festival Flash Fiction Competition are looking for stories of up to 100 words and the story must include one of the following words: Place, Placed, Places. First place will receive £60, second place £30, and third place £20.
Entry fee: £3, or up to five stories £10
Website: https://www.southambookfest.co.uk/100-words-2025
Name: Uncanny Magazine
Deadline: 8th September 2025
Wordcount: 750-10,000 words
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Description:
Uncanny Magazine is currently accepting short stories submissions and is seeking passionate, diverse Science Fiction/Fantasy fiction from writers from every conceivable background. They want intricate, experimental stories with gorgeous prose, verve, and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs. They pay $.10 per word (including audio rights).
Entry fee: FREE
Website: https://www.uncannymagazine.com
Name: The Pomegrate London
Deadline: N/A
Wordcount: Short Fiction: up to 4000 words; Poetry: Up to four poems; Non-Fiction: up to 4000 words
Genre: Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
Description: The Pomegranate London publishes new, previously unpublished work by UK and international writers. All submissions must feature and artist or an artist’s tool, creation, or environment in some way. The accept fiction (including flash fiction), poetry, and non-fiction. They aim to respond within 10-15 working days. They are unable to offer payment at the moment, but contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the magazine.
Entry fee: FREE
Website: https://thepomegranatelondon.com/
Name: The Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction
Deadline: 30th September 2025
Wordcount: up to 10,000 words
Genre: non-fiction
Description: The Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction is for previously published or unpublished nonfiction pieces which may include memoirs, chronicles, personal essays, humorous perspectives, literary journalism-anything the author has witnessed, experienced, or discovered. All topics are welcome, pieces should be written in a non-academic style. The winner will receive $1,000, a bronze medallion, and publication in The Lascaux Review. All entries will be considered for publication.
Entry fee: $15
Website: www.lascauxreview.com
Name: The Moth Nature Writing Prize
Deadline: 30th September 2025
Wordcount: Less than 4000 words
Genre: Nature Writing
Description: The Moth Nature Prize are looking for unpublishes pieces of prose (fiction or non-fiction) or poetry which best combine exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writer’s relationship with the natural world. The winner will receive €1,000 and a one week at The Moth Retreat in Ireland; second prize is €500; third prize is €250. The winning entries will also appear in the Irish Times online.
Entry fee: €15
Website: https://www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=9311&page=56
