Opportunities
Welcome to Literature Wales’ opportunities page where we share internal and external literary opportunities, from competitions to residencies, from Wales and beyond. If you have any opportunities you’d like us to feature, please email us on: post@literaturewales.org
Literature Wales Opportunities
Events and Communications Executive – 22 May (5:00pm)
Are you a creative individual who loves literature, highly organised and good at solving problems? We’re recruiting for an Events and Communications Executive. Part-time (22 hours per week), fixed term 8 month contract (maternity cover). Salary: £26,000 pro rata.
Current Vacancies and Opportunities – Literature Wales
Tŷ Newydd Creative Writing Courses
We have a range of creative writing courses and retreats available at Tŷ Newydd – the National Writing Centre of Wales. Why not have a look and discover what’s on offer.
Work Opportunities
Live Music Now: Project Manager – 18 May
Live Music Now is looking for an experienced project manager and proven fundraiser in Cymru. This postholder will have demonstrable, successful, end to end project management skills, with a deep understanding of the positive and far-reaching effects of music as a tool for addressing social and health impacts in a Wales wide context. Recruiting manager, Jen Abell, welcomes contact and questions from applicants ahead of submission.
Salary Scale: £30,000 pro rata 3.5 days per week. £21,000 per annum for this contract.
Job type: Part time, 3.5 days, 26.25 hours per week
Project Manager | Arts Council of Wales
Call-outs
Black Bee Call for Submissions – Rolling
Black Bee Books is currently open for submissions from under-represented voices in Wales. As a new publishing house based in West Wales, the company want to be reflective of a wide variety of experiences and are actively seeking those who are under-served by the industry.
They are looking to publish both adult and young adult fiction and non-fiction, but not children’s books.
For submission guidelines please see: www.blackbeebooks.wales/contact
Hack Publishing – Rolling
Hack Publishing are looking for 10 writers to join us an exciting project that will explore work now and imagine working culture in the future. This will be a collection of essays with 10 different perspectives, although writers are encouraged to experiment with genre.
In addition, they are also looking for writers to contribute to their upcoming magazine. The first issue’s theme is: resilience. Writers can submit any genre of up to 3,500 words. It is a chance for new writers to see their work published alongside one another.
Find the full details on their website.
Folding Rock – Rolling
Folding Rock is always on the hunt for the best new creative fiction and non-fiction in, from and connected to Wales. We accept work by writers at any stage and age, and we pay for every piece we publish. Submissions are always open but specific themed call-outs for each issue will be made three times a year. We also take pitches for translations, visual essays and multi-media work – check out our website for more details: https://foldingrock.com/submit-your-work/
If you’re an author or publisher with a book out that’s connected to Wales, tell us about it here: https://foldingrock.com/tell-us-about-a-book/
New Croton Review – Rolling
While the New Croton Review seeks poetry, fiction and non-fiction in English, we welcome the submission of translations of work written in other languages (as long as, if the author of the translated work is still entitled to copyright, the author has given permission for the translation). Those who submit English translation of their own work in Welsh may also submit the original Welsh version and should indicate whether they prefer that, if the translation is accepted for publication, the original version be included.
There are no geographical or age limitations. Click here to read the submission guidelines on our website. If your work is accepted, we’ll ask you to grant us the right to publish it, but you retain the copyright and the right to publish it elsewhere.
Broken Sleep Books – various closing dates
Broken Sleep Books are a working-class, small, innovative press, who publish a range of poetry and prose, from a range of writers. Our primary focus is in increasing access to the arts, in ensuring more people are able to engage with creativity regardless of their socioeconomic status. ABOUT US & SUBMISSIONS | Broken Sleep Books
PaperBound Magazine – 1 May (23:59pm)
For any aspiring writer or illustrator over 18+ wanting to get your foot in the door or share your work with the world.
- Flash fiction, short stories, poetry, or scripts on a theme of WONDER aimed at middle grade, teen and/or young adult readers.
The theme is open to interpretation. You could write about a wondrous person, place, an emotion, a surprising event or experience, or something else completely … it’s up to you!
- Feature articles on the writing process aimed towards 11-18 year olds
- Feature interviews with professional, contemporary Children’s/Young Adult authors/illustrators
Please send submissions, and any further questions, to: paperboundmagazine@outlook.com
ILLUSTRATORS: Please submit pieces inspired by a theme of WONDER (for a middle grade, teen or YA audience). The theme is open to interpretation. You could create a piece that links to a wondrous person, place, an emotion, a surprising event or experience, or something else completely … it’s up to you! We can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Wasafiri: Call for submissions (Fiction and Non-fiction) – 1 May
Open to anyone anywhere in the world. Free to submit. Written in, or translated into, English. Word count: 3000-5000. Fee available. Submit
Uncertain Stories – 29 May
Uncertain Stories exists to promote short stories, and we welcome short story submissions from both new and established authors.
We publish high-quality short fiction that takes place more-or-less here, more-or-less now, with a supernatural or speculative edge. If you aren’t sure what that means, check out our debut anthology, Broken Ground.
If you’d like to submit work for potential publication in our anthology series, you can do so through our partner publisher The Fiction Desk. Submissions information for Uncertain Stories
Competitions
Eisteddfodau Cymru – Ongoing
There are several literary competitions held by various Eisteddfod events across Wales annually.
For further information and closing dates, visit the Cymdeithas Eisteddfodau Cymru website.
Bridport Prize – 31 May
The Bridport Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the literary world, so you’re in good company. Whether you’re writing poetry, a short story, flash fiction, novel or a memoir, we can’t wait to read your words. Home – Bridport Prize
Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – 30 June
The seventeenth edition of the prize is now open for original entries and entries in translation across Fiction, Life Writing, and Poetry.
Representing more of the globe than any other prize of its kind, the prize supports writers who have not published book-length works, with no limits on age, gender, nationality, or background. The winners of each category will receive a £1,000 cash prize and publication in Wasafiri. All winners and shortlisted writers will be offered the Chapter and Verse or Free Reads mentoring scheme in partnership with The Literary Consultancy (dependent on eligibility), and a one-year print subscription to Wasafiri.
Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
Stephen Spender Prize – 31 July
The Stephen Spender Prize is an annual competition for poetry in translation that celebrates the creativity of young people across the UK and Ireland – and their teachers! The Prize has categories for schools, teachers and individual young people, which welcome translations from all languages, as well as a special ‘Spotlight‘ strand that each year focuses on a different widely spoken language. Our Spotlight language for 2026 is Polish.
The rules are simple: translate into English any poem from any language, or a Polish poem from our Spotlight booklet, and produce an accompanying creative response . . . for your chance to join the Stephen Spender Prize hall of eternal fame! Stephen Spender Prize – Stephen Spender Trust