The Cheshire Prize for Literature 2024/25 is a literature competition for an original, fictional, unpublished piece of writing.

The 2024/25 Prize has no theme. Entrants can write about anything that inspires them.

There are five categories, short stories, poetry, children’s literature, scriptwriting and new for this year, Flash fiction.

There are three age groups: primary, secondary and over 18’s. Entrants must live or have lived, work or have worked, studied or have studied in Cheshire, Wirral, Warrington or Halton.

Winners will be announced at an awards evening in the summer. All entrants will be invited to attend.

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.