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Ann Arbor District Library
Genres: Children's and Short Story
The annual "Write On!" Short Story Contest for Grades 3-5 accepts story entries each winter. All writers, their friends, and families are invited to a Story Celebration and awards ceremony on Saturday, April 23, 2022, featuring a published children's author and the top three writers in each grade will receive an award.
Top Prize:
Publication on website
📅 Deadline: February 05, 2024 (Expired)
F(r)iction
Genres: Poetry
We seek work that actively pushes boundaries, that forces us to question traditions and tastes. If your work takes risks, we want to read it. We like strong narratives that make us feel something and stories we haven’t seen before. We accept work, written in English, from anywhere in the world—regardless of genre, style, or origin—and welcome speculative writing and experimental literature. Strange is good. Strange with a strong character arc is even better. Keep it weird, folks.
Top Prize:
$300
Additional prizes:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024 (Expired)
Passager
Genres: Poetry
Passager, a nonprofit literary press for writers over 50, is interested in new, diverse voices for its annual poetry contest. The winning poet receives $1000, publication of several poems and a featured interview in the upcoming issue of Passager journal. Honorable mentions are published. The reading fee includes a 1-year subscription to Passager.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication of multiple poems and featured interview
💰 Entry fee: $20
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024 (Expired)
Stockholm Writers Festival
Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Novel, Novella, Science Fiction, Thriller, and Young Adult
SWF is proud to launch the First 5 Pages Prize to mark our 5th anniversary. Dazzle us with your brilliance. Delight us with your wit. Deceive us with your dastardly plot-twists. There will be one Grand Prize winner chosen from all entries. The winner will receive: $1000 cash, a ticket to SWF22, a pitch meeting with an agent conducted over Zoom, two night’s accommodation at a boutique hotel, and a full developmental edit donated by Reedsy, the industry’s leading platform for writing services.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
A full developmental edit donated by Reedsy & pitch meeting with an agent
💰 Entry fee: $20
📅 Deadline: January 31, 2022 (Expired)
University of New Orleans Press
Genres: Novel
The Publishing Laboratory at the University of New Orleans seeks to bring innovative publicity and broad distribution to authors. Full length works of fiction (novels and short story collections) only. The work does not have to be regionally focused. There is no word limit. There is no limit on subjects covered. Multiple and simultaneous submissions allowed. The contest is open to all authors from any country, regardless of publishing history.
Top Prize:
$10,000
💰 Entry fee: $28
📅 Deadline: August 31, 2024
Flash 500
Genres: Fiction and Novel
We are looking for an opening chapter up to 3,000 words, plus a one page synopsis outlining the balance of your story of any genre, so long as it's unpublished.
Top Prize:
£500
Additional prizes:
2nd Place: £200
💰 Entry fee: $13
📅 Deadline: October 31, 2024
Texas Review
Genres: Fiction and Novella
Established in 2001, The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize highlights one book a year that excels in the novella format. Since 2019 the Prize comes with $500, a standard royalty contract, and 20 copies of the published book.
Top Prize:
$500
Additional prizes:
A Standard Royalty contract, 20 copies of the novella published
💰 Entry fee: $20
📅 Deadline: March 31, 2024 (Expired)
Genres: Script Writing
The Scriptation Showcase is the screenwriting contest that circulates winners’ scripts to Hollywood directors, showrunners, and producers. 15 scripts get featured for one year in Scriptation, the Emmy® Award winning app used on film and TV productions. The earlier you apply, the lower the entry fee will be.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
1 Year Scriptation Showcase, 1 year industry pro access
💰 Entry fee: $74
📅 Deadline: July 24, 2022 (Expired)
Cranked Anvil Press
Genres: Fiction and Short Story
Our quarterly short story competition is open for entries all year round. The competition is open to any theme or genre, but your story must be a maximum of 1,500 words (not including the title). You can enter up to three stories in each quarterly competition.
Top Prize:
£150
Additional prizes:
£75 for 2nd, £30 for 3rd
💰 Entry fee: $7
📅 Deadline: January 31, 2024 (Expired)
Avernus Education
Genres: Essay
Welcome to our prestigious International Essay Competition. At Avernus Education, we are thrilled to provide a platform for young minds to showcase their prowess in Medicine, Engineering, Law, Economics, Psychology, History and Politics. These varied subject categories underscore the importance of interdisciplinary study, a crucial foundation for future leaders in our increasingly interconnected world. Winners receive an exclusive Avernus Education Scholarship worth over £5000 - granting them free entrance to our exclusive summer camp at Oxford University! Outstanding Runners Up receive 5 hours worth of Credits for Avernus Education courses, conferences and tutoring services.
Top Prize:
100% Scholarship Award to our Oxford University Summer Programme (worth £5995)
Additional prizes:
Partial scholarship
📅 Deadline: February 19, 2024 (Expired)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Genres: Poetry
The award is open to any poet writing in English who has not had a full-length book of poetry published previously. We define “full-length book” as a volume of 48 or more pages published in an edition of 500 or more copies. Books whose publication costs have been borne by their authors are excluded from this definition.
Top Prize:
$5,000
Additional prizes:
Publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press
💰 Entry fee: $25
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2024 (Expired)
The Heartland Review
Genres: Poetry
Founded in 2000, The Heartland Review (ISSN: 2473-9545) is published in the spring and fall as an imprint of The Heartland Review Press. Our biannual journal publishes fiction, creative nonfiction/fiction, and poetry of any all subcategories, styles, and voices. Our writers have ranged in age from 15 to 80+ from around the world. We consider established writers as well as emerging writers. In the past we have reserved space for student writers and emerging artists. We are currently accepting poetry.
Top Prize:
Publication in The Heartland Review
📅 Deadline: April 15, 2024 (Expired)
Hopper Creative Group LLC
Genres: Science Fiction
The Valorious Awards, sponsored by international best-selling author, Christopher Hopper, is an annual competition seeking to recognize and encourage emerging artists in two categories: best sci-fi novel, best sci-fi voice actor. The awards seek to recognize emerging independent authors and character actors and discover new and exciting talent within the world of science fiction.
Top Prize:
$500
Additional prizes:
2nd: $250 | 3rd: $150
💰 Entry fee: $35
📅 Deadline: December 31, 2023 (Expired)
Goldfinch Books
Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Mystery, Novel, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller, and Young Adult
Goldfinch Books, an independent bookshop, café and event space in Alton, Hampshire, UK has announced a UK nationwide literary competition to coincide with the inaugural Alton Arts Festival. The Goldfinch Novel Award 2024 is a prize for emerging authors (aged 16+) with completed young adult or adult novels. This competition is open to authors in the UK and will have a prize of £300 for the winning novel, chosen by judge Kiya Evans, Associate Literary Agent at Mushens Entertainment.
Top Prize:
£300
Additional prizes:
Goldfinch Membership
💰 Entry fee: $14
📅 Deadline: May 15, 2024 (Expired)
Pulp Literature Press
Genres: Fiction
This contest is for previously unpublished short fiction between 250 and 2500 words in length. Multiple entries welcome. Total entries limited to 300. Show us your most scintillating treasures in the form of short fiction up to 2500 words in length and you could be the one bringing home $300 CAD to line your nest!
Top Prize:
$230
Additional prizes:
Publication in Pulp Literature
💰 Entry fee: $15
📅 Deadline: October 15, 2024
New Writers
Genres: Poetry
The New Writers Poetry Competition 2024 is open to published and unpublished poets from around the world. There is no specific theme but poems should be no longer than 42 lines. NewWriters.org.uk will donate £1.00 from each entry to First Story (a creative writing charity in the UK).
Top Prize:
£1,000
Additional prizes:
2nd: £300 | 3rd: £200
💰 Entry fee: $13
📅 Deadline: July 31, 2024
F(r)iction
Genres: Flash Fiction
We seek work that actively pushes boundaries, that forces us to question traditions and tastes. If your work takes risks, we want to read it. We like strong narratives that make us feel something and stories we haven’t seen before. We accept work, written in English, from anywhere in the world—regardless of genre, style, or origin—and welcome speculative writing and experimental literature. Strange is good. Strange with a strong character arc is even better. Keep it weird, folks.
Top Prize:
$300
Additional prizes:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: April 20, 2024 (Expired)
Winning Writers
Genres: Poetry
Welcome to the 20th annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Submit published or unpublished work. $3,000 for a poem in any style or genre. $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style.
Top Prize:
$3,000
Additional prizes:
$200 for 10 honorable mentions
💰 Entry fee: $20
📅 Deadline: October 01, 2024
Gotham Writers Workshop
Genres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Horror, Humor, Mystery, Short Story, and Thriller
Autumn is the season of rustling leaves, a chill in the air, and, of course, Halloween. In that spirit, we invite you to create the first line of a frightening story. But we want that first line to be so intriguing or chilling or scary that it makes our skin tingle and our nerves twitch.
Top Prize:
Free Gotham Writers class
💰 Entry fee: $0
📅 Deadline: November 30, 2023 (Expired)
Heroica
Genres: Poetry
Heroica is delighted to announce the launch of our new Poetry Prize. Heroica is a global storytelling platform dedicated to sharing stories about all aspects of gender oppression. Stories that are real, inspiring, challenging and relatable. Your story matters.
Top Prize:
£125
Additional prizes:
2nd: £50 | 3rd: £25 | Publication in anthology
💰 Entry fee: $2
📅 Deadline: February 29, 2024 (Expired)
Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
Genres: Essay and Non-fiction
For this year’s Essay Contest, we are asking students to think about why the story of the Oklahoma City bombing is important today.
Top Prize:
$1,000
📅 Deadline: March 04, 2024 (Expired)
Bridport Arts Centre
Genres: Poetry
You don't have to be Tennyson. Just talented. All we ask is that you please keep poems to 42 lines, max. You can, of course, write less. In addition to the prize money, the top three poems are automatically entered into the Forward Prize For Poetry’s best single poem competition, with the chance to win a further £1000. This exclusive award is not open to the public. You can write about absolutely anything but whatever your rhyme or reason, we want to read your poetry.
Top Prize:
£5000
Additional prizes:
£1000 for 2nd, £500 for 3rd
💰 Entry fee: $15
📅 Deadline: May 31, 2024
Xulon Press
Genres: Christian
The Christian Author Awards recognizes preeminent new Christian authors who are independently published. Xulon Press, host and sponsor of the Christian Author Awards, is excited to once again extend the opportunity to Christian authors to have their work recognized and given due credit. The Christian Author Awards exists to honor exceptional books written by Christian authors like you that are published independently by nontraditional publishers.
Top Prize:
Xulon Press Elite Publishing Package valued at $8,780
📅 Deadline: September 21, 2021 (Expired)
Write By the Sea
Genres: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry
Write By The Sea is a dynamic boutique literary festival set in the beautiful fishing village of Kilmore Quay, County Wexford. The independent panel of judges will select the winners of each category and winners will be invited to read their work as part of the Festival.
Top Prize:
€500
Additional prizes:
2nd: €300 | 3rd: €200 | Publication
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: June 21, 2024
Plough Publishing
Genres: Poetry
This award honors the achievements of the great Dominican-American poet, translator, and public school teacher Rhina Polonia Espaillat. The Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award will be awarded for an original poem of not more than fifty lines that reflects her lyricism, empathy, and ability to find grace in everyday events of life.
Top Prize:
$2,000
Additional prizes:
Publication in Plough Quarterly. Two finalists will receive $250
💰 Entry fee: $5
📅 Deadline: March 30, 2024 (Expired)
Anthology Magazine
Genres: Memoir
Everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours? Authors are invited to share a unique life experience. Whether your memoir recounts a transformative journey, a poignant moment, or a life-altering event, we welcome your story. The Anthology Personal Memoir Competition is open to original and previously unpublished memoirs in the English language by writers of any nationality, living anywhere in the world.
Top Prize:
€500
Additional prizes:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $12
📅 Deadline: August 31, 2024
Lambda Literary
Genres: LGBTQ
Lambda Literary has played a pivotal role in nurturing the development of exceptional new LGBTQ writers through the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, internships, and writing and performance opportunities. The Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers recognizes LGBTQ-identified writers whose work demonstrates their strong potential for promising careers.
Top Prize:
$1000 (x2)
📅 Deadline: February 16, 2024 (Expired)
Dream Quest One
Genres: Fiction and Short Story
Write a short story, 5 pages maximum length, on any subject or theme, fiction, non-fiction, creative nonfiction (including essay compositions, diary, journal entries, short stage plays, screenplays, and screenwriting). All entries must be either typed or legibly hand printed. Multiple and simultaneous poetry and short story entries are accepted.
Top Prize:
$250
Additional prizes:
2nd: $125 | 3rd: $50
💰 Entry fee: $10
📅 Deadline: September 30, 2024
National Youth Foundation
Genres: Children's
Founded by Black women with a vision for change, the mission of the National Youth Foundation is to promote diversity, inclusion and gender equality through innovative literary programs. To honor the vast accomplishments of women in the United States, the National Youth Foundation is pleased to announce the Amazing Women’s Edition (AWE) competition. This writing contest is open to students in grades K to 8 residing in the United States.
Top Prize:
$500
📅 Deadline: January 07, 2022 (Expired)
First Coast Romance Writers
Genres: Fiction and Romance
The National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award celebrates published romance novels and novellas and is judged by romance readers. All entries must have an original copyright date of 2021 and must have been available for purchase in the United States beginning in 2021.
Top Prize:
NERFA Winner web logo and trophy
💰 Entry fee: $40
📅 Deadline: March 31, 2024 (Expired)
IndieReader
Genres: Fiction, Non-fiction, and Novel
Where talented authors meet publishing professionals with the power to make a difference in the success of their books. Every author who enters a title in the IR Discovery Awards will receive a verdict, written by an IndieReader reviewer and based on their assessment after reading the complete book.
Top Prize:
First look consideration by a top, NYC-based literary agency
Additional prizes:
$500, publicist consultation service, Reedsy credit, custom author website
💰 Entry fee: $150
📅 Deadline: February 14, 2024 (Expired)
Genres: Non-fiction
Memo'd is a platform where wisdom is distilled into 10-point “Memos”. It aims to be the world’s most inspiring (and free-to-use!) repository of short-form knowledge – and AI will play a pivotal role in this. So what do you have to do to win? Publish an AI-assisted Memo (or Memos) that helps readers gain valuable knowledge in a specific area. Think Twitter threads that are worth remembering. Multiple submissions are welcome and there are no fees - and no catch!
Top Prize:
$750
Additional prizes:
Second Prize for second most unique views: $250 | Best AI Prompt Prize for most creative and useful prompt: $250
📅 Deadline: February 28, 2024 (Expired)
Best Travel Writing
Genres: Essay, Non-fiction, and Travel
Extraordinary stories about travel and the human spirit have been the cornerstones of our books since 1993. With the Solas Awards we honor writers whose work inspires others to explore. We’re looking for the best stories about travel and the world. Funny, illuminating, adventurous, uplifting, scary, inspiring, poignant stories that reflect the unique alchemy that occurs when you enter unfamiliar territory and begin to see the world differently as a result. We hope these awards will be a catalyst for those who love to leave home and tell others about it.
Top Prize:
$1,000
Additional prizes:
Publication
💰 Entry fee: $25
📅 Deadline: September 21, 2024
Virginia Romance Writers
Genres: Fiction and Romance
The Virginia Romance Writers Chapter of the Romance Writers of America® is pleased to announce the 27th Annual HOLT Medallion competition for the best romantic fiction. Entries must be a single work of romance fiction, with an original copyright date (not a release date) of January-December 2021 regardless of format (e-book or print).
Top Prize:
Certificate and a pewter HOLT medallion
💰 Entry fee: $30
📅 Deadline: January 15, 2024 (Expired)
Gotham Writers
Genres: Fiction and Flash Fiction
Each month we invite you to post a story on Twitter using #GWstorieseverywhere for a chance to win a free class. Your story must be no longer than 25 words, with a max of 280 characters, including spaces and the hashtag #GWstorieseverywhere.
Top Prize:
Gotham Writers Workshop
💰 Entry fee: $0
📅 Deadline: January 31, 2022 (Expired)
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