Photo Contest Planner 2027

What is inside

• Calendar (ICS). One all-day event per closing date, carrying the fee, the AI rule, the licence and the official link. Subscribe to it from your download page and it reminds you 7 days before each closing date and keeps up as WinPhoto adds or corrects verified records, in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook; or import it once as a file.
• Spreadsheet (CSV). One row per closing date, soonest first, so a contest whose competitions close on different days has a row for each, with these columns: Contest, Organiser, Opens, Closes, Closing time, Time zone, Entry fee, AI rule, Licence grade, Licence, File spec, Checked, Official URL, WinPhoto URL.
• PDF. The same table on landscape A4, for printing.

The files are built from WinPhoto’s records on the day you download them, so the link we email you gives an up-to-date copy until 31 Dec 2027.

6 of today’s 28 closing dates

Dates are as each organiser publishes them. Where an organiser names no time zone, the files give the zone we read the date in, UTC or the organiser's own, marked “our reading”. Some contests show a closing time of day, quoted from the organiser's rules; for the rest, check the official page for the time before you enter. Each row was checked against the organiser’s published rules on the day it gives.

Clean

You keep your copyright, and the licence clause names none of the wider terms listed under Standard or Heavy grant.

Standard

You keep your copyright, but the licence clause names at least one wider term: a perpetual or irrevocable licence, sub-licensing or transfer to others, commercial, merchandise, unlimited or exploitation rights, wording that makes the image their property, or partial exclusivity.

Heavy grant

You sign over your copyright, or the contest takes the image exclusively for the licence term.

A grade is a quick guide; each contest's record quotes the licence clause itself.

Download these 6 rows as a free sample PDF, the same file the planner holds, cut to these rows.

One closing date in your calendar

Subscribed from your download page, the calendar also reminds you 7 days before each closing date, marks the opening day of contests whose records give one from 1 October 2026 on, and updates itself as records are added or corrected.

Good to know

The planner lists only contests whose record WinPhoto has checked against the organiser’s own rules. Each contest’s details are also free to read, one by one, on the competitions pages; the planner puts them in files you can sort, print and add to your calendar.

WinPhoto is independent and not affiliated with any listed contest. The planner is free: type your email address above and we email your download link, usually within a minute; the link opens a page with your calendar, spreadsheet and PDF. We use the address only to send that email, and keep it only if you tick the box for the Letter. If a file is missing or won’t open, tell hello@winphoto.io and we fix it.