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Top 10 Competitions and Awards of the Week!!!!
The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards 2020
Applications call for the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards 2020
The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards (GSFA), now in its ninth year, recognizes outstanding films from the business, non-profit, media, and creative sectors that inspire audiences with real-world solutions for a more sustainable future. A film is a powerful tool for raising public awareness, shifting public opinion, and inspiring action. The GSFA seeks to promote effective, credible solutions-oriented storytelling about environmental and sustainability issues.
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2020
Applications call for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2020. In order to ensure the safety of panel members and Gallery staff the judging of this year’s competition will take place digitally (photographers will not be required to send in their prints for physical judging). Photographers will therefore are required to upload their image(s) via the Gallery’s website at the entry form stage.
Rules
Some rules of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize are as follows
- Photographers must have been 18 years of age or over on 1 January 2019.
- Each photographer can submit up to six photographs.
- Previous first prize-winners, since and including 2008, are not eligible to enter the competition.
- Entry forms and payment of entry fees must be completed by 17.00 on Tuesday 22 September 2020 (UK time).
Mslexia Fiction & Memoir Competition 2020
Applications call for Mslexia Fiction & Memoir Competition 2020: Short Story. The competition is open to women of any nationality from any country and welcomes stories of between 300 and 3,000 words in length (not including the title).
Prizes
- The winning writer of Mslexia Fiction & Memoir Competition will receive £3,000 and also have the prestige of being published in Mslexia, a credit shared with writers like Costa winner Angela Readman and novelist Peggy Riley.
- The winner will also have the opportunity to spend a week on an Arvon retreat, and receive a mentoring session with an editor at Virago – an experience that money can’t buy.
- Three other finalists will each receive £100. All four winning stories will be published in the December 2020 issue of Mslexia.
- In addition to that, there are lots of prizes for categories.
Beartooth Anthony’s Halloween Campfire Story Contest
Applications call for Beartooth Anthony’s Halloween Campfire Story Contest.
In honor of Halloween and Fall Camping Season, Beartooth Anthony is holding our third annual Halloween campfire short story contest. Up for grabs is a Snow Peak GigaPower 2.0 Stove, which will be awarded to the author of the most bone-chilling short story. Stories will be submitted for review by a panel of judges, most of whom are teachers and outdoor enthusiasts. Finalists will be chosen, and posted along with the winning story.
Submission Guidelines
- The story should be appropriate for all ages, with no foul language or sexual content.
- Inappropriate stories will not be accepted.
- Winner will be decided based on the judge’s votes.
- The submission deadline is October 23rd and the winning story will be posted by October 31st, 2020.
- The prize will be awarded before the end of November.
The Flash Fiction Challenge 2020
Applications call for 2020 Flash Fiction Challenge: Visioning a Better World Beyond the Pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected communities around the world, has proven that, when deemed necessary, the governing powers can implement massive changes to our day-to-day realities in a matter of hours.
So what could life on earth look like after this global event? What possibilities have been unleashed?
Flash Fiction at Systems Change Alliance is inviting you to put pen to paper, fingers to the keyboard, to envision how our societies might evolve in the months and years beyond COVID-19. In your flash fiction piece, give us a snapshot into a post-pandemic world in which a shift towards positive systems change has occurred and a new paradigm is established or unfolding. While we know this is a challenging time and theme, we want to remain solution-focused. For this reason, the challenge is not looking for a depressing or dystopian take on the post-pandemic reality.
Sas Fiction Contest 2020/21 ($500 and Publication)
Application calls for Sas Fiction Contest 2020/21
The winner will be selected from this year’s submissions of original, unpublished short stories between 3,000 and 7,000 words with LGBT content on the broad theme of “Saints and Sinners.”
Prize
One grand prize of $500 and two second-place prizes of $100 will be awarded. In addition, the top stories will be published in an anthology from Bold Strokes Books. There will also be a book release party and reading held during the 18th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Conference in New Orleans in 2021. A list of the top ten finalists will be posted on our website and in the e-newsletter.
30th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize 2020
Applications call for 30th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize
Winners of 30th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize will receive the publication, invitation to a reception and reading in their honor, and a cash prize.
Cash Prizes
- $5,000 Fiction
- $5,000 Nonfiction
- $5,000 Poetry
Guidelines
- Submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction up to 8,500 words or any number of poems up to 10 pages. Please double-space fiction and nonfiction entries.
- Multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions are welcome, but you must pay a separate fee for each entry and withdraw the piece immediately if accepted elsewhere.
- Entries must be previously unpublished.
- Standard Entry fee: $25. Each entrant receives a one-year subscription to the Missouri Review in digital format (normal price $24) and a digital copy of the fourth title in the imprint, TMR Books, Strange Encounters, a short story anthology by former Editors’ Prize-winners and contributors (normal price $7.95).
- “All Access” Entry fee: $30. In addition to the one-year digital subscription to the Missouri
- Review and Strange Encounters, the “All Access” entry fee grants access to the last 10 years of digital issues and the audio recordings of each digital issue.
EUSPA Logo Design Contest 2020
The European GNSS Agency, the operational arm of the European Commission for the EU Space Programme calls application for EUSPA Logo Design Contest 2020. The EUSPA Logo Design Contest is a great opportunity for the GSA to open up its lines of communication and connect with a new community other than our GNSS niche. Taking part in this contest will be an asset for students and recent graduates who are looking to kickstart their careers and for professionals to enrich their portfolios with a logo that will always be a point of reference for their professional pathways.
The EUSPA Logo Design Contest is encouraging fresh thinking and innovation. Participants are asked to submit up to two design proposals that will capture the quintessence of the new agency in a visually striking, aesthetically appealing logo. The ideal design will be simple, yet able to tell a story that encapsulates the activities of the agency, but most importantly ensures brand recognition for EUSPA.
GSA MyGalileoDrone Competition 2020
Applications call for GSA MyGalileoDrone Competition 2020
The aim of the contest is to design, develop, test, and prepare for commercial launch a drone-based application and/or serviceable to provide a position and/or time fix by using Galileo -enabled receiver. The use of Galileo shall be understood in a broad sense, and not limited to the navigation components in the flying platform.
The MyGalileoDrone Competition is open to the integration of Galileo in any of the drone components or other equipment supporting the operations, that is, the flying platform (autopilot or another payload), the ground control station, or any other devices supporting the implementation of the application, such as smartphone, as well as external ones, such as U-Space services.
Prizes
There are 4 prizes for a total of €230.000 awarded as follow:
- 1st Prize: €100.000
- 2nd Prize: €60.000
- 3rd Prize: €40.000
- 4th Prize: €30.000
Online Seedstars World Competition 2020/21 (Win $500,000 USD)
Apply for the Online Seedstars World Competition 2020/21 (Win $500,000 USD). The deadline for the application is 31st August 2020.
From June to November each year, the Seedstars team looks for the most promising early-stage startups from 90+ emerging markets that will receive intensive training on how to be investment-ready. They will take part in local, regional, and global stage competitions, but only one of them will be crowned as the Global Winner and receive a prize of up to USD 500,000 in equity investment. Who will it be this year?
Specifications
| Type of Opportunity | Competitions and Awards |
|---|---|
| Deadline | Ongoing |
| Open to | All Nationalities |