City Writes Competition Deadline: Midnight, 14th November!

For your chance to share you work on the virtual stage with the wonderful debut author and Writers’ Workshop alumna, Lauren du Plessis, you need to send your best 1,000 words of creative fiction or non-fiction to rebekah.lattin-rawstrone.2@city.ac.uk

There isn’t a theme, we’re just looking for prose that captures the attention of our hearts and minds.

City Writes is the termly showcase event for all the fabulous writing coming from City St George’s short creative writing courses. Alongside invited guests, alumni and tutors, we have readings from students past and present who have entered and won the City Writes Competition. This could be you!

City Writes Autumn 2025 is on the 10th December 2025 at 7pm on Zoom. Register here.

Our guest this term is debut author, Lauren du Plessis, whose novel Tender, came out with Influx Press this September 2025. Lauren’s novel is an absorbing folk-horror that will thrill and unnerve. Blending folkloric horror with explorations of womanhood against a backdrop of eco-anxiety, Tender burrows into the quiet violence of overcoming and accepting our darkest sides.

For your chance to join Lauren du Plessis on stage on Wednesday 10th December 2025 over Zoom, all you need to do is submit your best 1,000 words of creative fiction or non-fiction (we do accept young adult fiction but don’t currently accept children’s fiction) on any subject to rebekah.lattin-rawstrone.2@city.ac.uk with details of the City short course you are taking or have taken by midnight on Friday 14th November. See here for competition and submission guidelines.

Once again the deadline for submissions is this Friday 14th November at midnight! We look forward to your entries and do sign up to come along and hear readings from competition winners and Lauren du Plessis here.