Cheshire Prize for Literature 2025/26

This year’s competition is open to anyone to enter in three age categories:

Primary (4-11): poetry or short story category

Secondary (11-18): poetry or short story category

Over 18: poetry, short story, flash fiction, children’s literature, scriptwriting

There is no theme, writers can write about anything that inspires them.

Prizes:

All winners in the age 4-17 categories will each receive a book token. All winners in the over 18 categories will each receive a cash prize.

There are no runner-up prizes. No cash alternative is available for any prize in any of the age 4 to 17 categories.

To enter, you must be the author of the submitted entry and must have been born, live or have lived, study or have studied, work or have worked, in the historical or modern county of Cheshire. For the purposes of the Competition, Cheshire is deemed to include the Wirral, as well as Warrington and Halton.