Competitions and Awards
Cinnamon Press competitions offer writers in different genres excellent publication opportunities. One of our competition winning poetry collections, for example, was recently short-listed for the Forward Prize, demonstrating the ability of the compettions to allow fine new writing toe emerge.
We run each of the competitions twice each year with closing dates of June 30th and November 30th.
Poetry Collection Award £100
The aim of this award is to provide a platform for new voices in poetry.
The winning author has his/her poetry collection published with Cinnamon Press and receives a prize of £100. We also publish an anthology of the best poems submitted and entry includes a copy of the winners' anthology. We often commission other collections as a result of being short-listed. Full details here.
Short Story Award: £100
The competition is open to new and published authors.
The first prize for a story between 2,000 and 4,000 words is £100 & publication. Up to ten runners up stories' are also published in the winners' anthology. Entry includes a copy of the winners' anthology. Full details here.
Novel/Novella Writing Award £400
The aim of this award is to encourage new authors, enabling debut novelists to achieve a first publication.
The winning author has his/her first novel published by Cinnamon Press and receives a prize of £500.
The four runners up also receive a full appraisal of their novel.
We have commissioned other novels as a result of short-listing in the competition.
Full details here.
There is also a regular poetry competition for single poems run over the year in each issue of the poetry journal Envoi.