The YCAA (Yeovil Community Arts Association) provides an opportunity for writers from around the world to enter our writing competition. The aims of the Yeovil Literary Prize are:

• to promote Creative Writing,
• to provide a genuine opportunity for aspiring writers, everywhere
• to support the YCAA in its future role by raising funds to support the arts

The Yeovil Literary Prize, started in 2002, has gained recognition as an established fixture in the international literary calendar. It fulfils its aims. The response to the Prize is magnificent, with quality writing being submitted from all corners of the globe. Many talented writers thrive on the opportunity to develop their craft through competition with other writers. We are proud to offer an award to novelists, as well as for writers of work that does not fit the usual writing categories with our ‘Writing Without Restriction’. We welcome short stories of every genre, and poetry. We have recently launched a new category for authors of Children’s and YA novels. If you are proud of something you have written, then enter it and see what happens next.