The Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction offers writers worldwide a chance to win £2,000 for stories up to 250 words. Open from May to August 2025, the competition welcomes all genres and includes special awards for Scottish writers and quirky stories.
The Rattle Poetry Prize offers £12,000 for a single winning poem, with ten finalists receiving £400 each and publication. Open worldwide to English-language poets, the competition features anonymous judging and a unique £4,000 Readers’ Choice Award selected by the poetry community. Entry requires only a magazine subscription. Deadline: 15 July 2025.
Olvens Louissaint is a Caribbean bilingual writer, Translator and Human rights defender. As an aspiring writer who used to address complex issues strategically and confidently through his work and whose work treats both personal and universal subjects, he is mainly committed to standing for the well-being of humanity and awarded with many international accolades.
The fact that Café Europa was born during the war is telling. Poetry and war should walk separate paths. Yet it is from their intersection that the word-in-action, or poesis, arises. The Greek root of this word is close to the Sanskrit term for compassion – karuna.
fter a seven-month-long evaluation process, the Jury of The Asian Prize for Short Story announced the winner on December 15, 2024. Out of over 900 submissions, three stories made it to the shortlist: Litter by Shikhandin, The Perfect Lifeby Kushboo Shah, and The White Noise Lullaby by Natasha Sharma. Among them, Indian writer Natasha Sharma won The Asian Prize for Short Story 2024 for her work, The White Noise Lullaby.
The Asian Review 